I know out here on the West coast with our digitalized title plants that each title company has it would be a matter of a few clicks for customer service department to transmit a copy of the mortgage to me..

My wife and I are in Stillwater and have house hacked for a number of years as well as flipped and own mixed use buildings in Western Wi.

I'm also considering Halethorpe because it's a good commuter location.Some people really like supporting the city in which case , northeast Baltimore would seem to the best place to buy a single family, in my opinion given the taxes situation and given that none of those areas are walkable I’d rather just be in the county and pay Lower taxes, and it’s not like northeast Baltimore is much that much cheaper than Baltimore county, hathorpe is mixed, arbutus is nice, I hate the housing stock there, would rather be in Catonsville if I was considering western Baltimore county. 

If you're ever interested in seeing what's going happening on the western side of the state feel free to reach out anytime. 

The fundamental thing is also that in Asia and Middle East, the jobs & buying power of people have skyrocketed exponentially in the past 10yrs, much better than western countries today.

  ( and we don't go to closing tables on the west coast by the way LOL) Their is EM that needs to be put down.. some sort of Proof you can close Not sure how they teach that.. along with the MONEY you need to do the preliminary work to get to entitlements which is what the builders are looking for..

The cashflow in MI relative to price/cost (RV or rent to value ratio) is good enough where this strategy might work better than our east and west coast cities where RV ratios are like .3-.6% of price per month.

I can't speak too much to the market on the Westside, but as far as affordability on the West Coast Spokane is worth looking into.

we are experiencing something similar with a property in western nc. its a large investment home, in a good area. we offered it at 100 per sqft . we have not had the attention it should have . i assumed it was due to storms , elections, interest rates. i could be wrong we may pull it from the market and finish it.

I live is the Western Suburbs of Detroit (Van Buren TWP).