**Property Tax Records**: Some counties do share property sale information with townships periodically for property tax purposes.

And pay another set of closing costs.If you do have to refinance in 5 years, the main concerns would be to make sure your credit is good for the refi. 

One of my main challenges early on was learning to have no expectations and learning to help set and manage expectations with clients.

What’s your main focus when you look at an investment market?

MANY times cities enact ordinances with illegal fees like this and they KNOW they are illegal but they also know it will take at least a few years for the ordinance to be struck down in court and in the meantime it will serve a purpose for the city.

Sometimes it’s surrendering the ability to get your money back at all… see this thread on Norada Capitalhttps://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/960/topics/1196567-nora...Unrelated to any investment I have made or even real estate, I have watched both my parents fall victim to clever marketing scams where they lost a combined 6 figure sums - both from in person marketed investments… so not something like a phone scam… but was a private placement “opportunity” not unlike how a syndications are offered, where management siphoned off investor money and used it for their own purposes.   

People have to purposefully navigate to the BP website before they can engage, so it's a slightly higher bar.

Will be turning into a 4 bedroom home with complete main floor living.

I am Texas based so may answers will skew more towards my region but I would leave to hear what are some other areas you may be paying attention to that isn't as popular as some of the main stays (Smokies, Joshua Tree, etc)Mine right now are 1.

My name is Thomas and I am an experienced lender/investor in Phoenix and Portland, Maine.