Initially, as a Realtor for a listing you can get close enough with the 500K figure for your estimated closing costs, that will be fine tuned later by the settlement agent for the HUD.

There are other ways as well, Specific Power of Attorney from an owner, estate settlements, generally an executor may charge a nominal fee for services, but you can't do this as a business, but just saying....A reasonable down payment might take a book to explain at the eighth grade level (LOL), as that depends on the property condition, marketability of the property.Take a $100,000 home in good condition that is marketable, reasonable might be $2500, in the event of default a seller needs to have enough to pay for associated costs, the property was taken off the market so all the past advertising is pretty much in the dump, they must start over again.

(Wanted houses - all cash - fast settlement - any condition -- etc,) What are you trying to accomplish?

6) I assume I'll pay to register the lien on the property because it is in my best interest to do so, would you typically put that the buyer will pay any fees associated with removing the lien (settlement fees?)

. § 14-11-702, which reads as follws: (b) Without excluding other activities which may not constitute transacting business in this state, a foreign limited liability company shall not be considered to be transacting business in this state, for the purpose of qualification under this chapter, solely by reason of carrying on in this state any one or more of the following activities: (1) Maintaining or defending any action or administrative or arbitration proceeding or effecting the settlement thereof or the settlement of claims or disputes; (2) Holding meetings of its managers, members, or other owners or carrying on other activities concerning its internal affairs; (3) Maintaining bank accounts, share accounts in savings and loan associations, custodial or agency arrangements with a bank or trust company, or stock or bond brokerage accounts; (4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of membership or other ownership interests in it or appointing and maintaining trustees or depositaries with relation to such interests; (5) Effecting sales through independent contractors; (6) Soliciting or procuring orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, where such orders require acceptance outside this state before becoming binding contracts and where such contracts do not involve any local performance other than delivery and installation; (7) Making loans or creating or acquiring evidences of debt, mortgages, or liens on real or personal property or recording the same; (8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing any rights in property securing the same; (9) Owning, without more, real or personal property; (10) Conducting an isolated transaction not in the course of a number of repeated transactions of a like nature; (11) Effecting transactions in interstate or foreign commerce; (12) Serving as trustee, executor, administrator, or guardian, or in like fiduciary capacity, where permitted so to serve by the laws of this state; or (13) Owning directly or indirectly an interest in or controlling directly or indirectly another person organized under the laws of or transacting business within this state.Good luck!

@Christina Thompson , check out Premier Settlements & Title Services in Hagerstown.

  * One said he paid $149 and got one lead that gave him two settlements but he wasn't happy with that investment?  

@Mark Creason, Technically not but there're a lot of ways to inadvertently mess up the process and the wrong signature on a settlement statement can tank the whole deal.  

Agree to a price, at which they will sell, you have to know what the reab will be, a contractor could give a bid price, then if the ARV is good, after settlement costs, you have profit.

Our plan is to take a small settlement we've just received and purchase a 2-4 unit multi-family rental in the next 60 days in Baltimore.