Financing in place means that you discussed financing options with a lender and they have examined your financial ability and determined if they would be interested in lending to you or not.

I recently passed the real estate license examination. 

---------------When you look at the property did you examine it? 

A good title examiner would examine the entire chain of title but I'm just looking to mitigate the majority of the risk.

This takes your due diligence from just a note examination to doing due diligence on those you might buy from, licensing, bonding, insurance and reserves.

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I passed my salesperson examination this week, will have access MLS, and am looking into what area I would like to dive into.

I personally don't understand contract law enough to want a document I built examined by thousand dollar a day attorneys in a court of law. 

More simply, in order to call yourself a CCIM one must pass the final examination and have an approved portfolio showing certain volume levels or quantity levels.  

This is true to some degree, but only inasmuch as you examine nominal prices and ignore inflation.