Be careful if there was no lender involved or if it was seller financing or conveyance was via quit claim deed.So once you know the previous owner had clear title look at what has been filed since then.

I'm not sure if I am conveying my question in just the right way, but hopefully I'm being clear enough to get some good feedback.Thank you in advance for sharing your collective wisdom and experience.

If they are month to month, you can easily write it into the contract that the seller convey the property vacant.

I understand that any lenders primary concern is their return but how would I convey this the most succinctly?

Is the seller going to do a 'land contract', or convey title at the close?  

The next learning opportunity with him is conveying why a MFH in a C neighborhood would be desirable from an investor's cash flow perspective, as he primarily works in a markets where people are retiring or buying second homes.

This reason makes it very difficult to by a foreclosure such as HUD, VA or USDA using a government backed loanDeed-  I recently closed on a USDA and the ONLY way they would convey is via a deed without warranty.

I think that is what he was trying to convey..  

A printed MASTER wouldn't of conveyed the message I was relaying(at least in my opinion).  

The sellers are an elderly couple in poor health and have conveyed to me how badly they need to sell the property.