Apparently FCI takes offense if you pull a note away from them. 

No offense taken at all.   

That said, no offense to requests to partner up, but unless we have a beer together, I probably won't partner with you. 

@Paul Dalton- So the go-to title/escrow person (a specific person at a company, not a company) of a mortgage lender will on average be better than the go-to title person of a real estate agent, because people like to do things that screw with title that need to be fixed for a refi more often than they do things that need to be fixed prior to selling a home (the solution if selling a home can usually be "pay it off using net proceeds," which you don't want to do in this case).No offense to our realtors here, but I think realtors often pick a title person based on the cleavage and/or skirt tightness of her sales manager and/or her.

@Mike MakkarNo offense taken - I interpreted "predatory" as "usury".

I found the gentleman quite offensive (racist, sexist, homophobic) and the product was far outside of my budget.Even still, I had such a strong compulsion to pay more, to help this guy out.  

I'm going to ask you one simple question several times, absolutely no offense intended.You are considering multi-family as an investment. 

I think the definition of a sellers market is when Days on market (DOM) is less than 60-90 days.In Seattle I think you have a little skewed data where 80% of listings that are priced right go in a matter of a week or two and there is 20% of listings that are listed at sucker prices and the unmotivated sellers just camp out these listings (like that dude who cherry picks on offense at the local basketball game).

Simply a Federal criminal offense.

Apologies if that was offensive to any agents :)