With HUD it depends on many things when purchasing.If for instance the purchase was part of the good teacher,police firefighter etc. with the discount you have to live there so many years period or you will have to repay some money.Also if your buyer bid during the owner occupant only period to get the property and will never move in that is fraudulent.Investors frequently use to do this to not wait until the investor period came.It is a crime to do this now.Some would also say they were living there to get an owner occupant loan with a lower rate.This is committing mortgage fraud.Many do things to ride the line everyday and some get burned and others do not.I wouldn't want to be on the governments radar though.So without knowing the specifics of how the transaction went down it's hard to say.If the title company says 2 years and they do a lot of HUD then I might take that at face value.I have seen HUD go out to properties before,check where mail is sent to for taxes,etc. after they were bought.

IF the rental market holds out (lots and lots of rentals coming onto the market here every day).

My quad's come out to 64,000 a door for 850 to 950 a month in rent on my apartments.I don't look at it only from a cash flow perspective however.The area I have the buildings in is an A location prime for redevelopment down the road.Mike it sounds like your local market is competitive with investors and your margins are thin.On one hand it is good to be in a thriving market where demand is strong because usually supply is lower and the amount of rentals and new development for multifamily cannot meet demand.This helps rents grow at a rate that outpaces utility increases and inflation.The downside is it can make some investors overspend on a property because they feel good about the market.I looked for over 2 years before I bought something.I said many times those buyers were nuts.I tracked the properties and many investment properties after purchase just 1 to 2 years later went into foreclosure.They bought at such a price that it wasn't sustainable.I look for a 10 CAP or better on my purchases.The problem is if you someone who has only gotten 1 percent interest off of a CD or Treasuries or they have gotten beat up in the stock market.Those types of buyers jump up and down to get a 7% annual CAP return beating out your offers everyday of the week.By in large many buyers like this can be lazy.They only look in the MLS for listed properties.Value can be found marketing to sellers that are not on the market.They don't want to make public all of their problems ( I know it is common knowledge of default at some point but this is their mindset ).

Do I do that every day, of course not.

But every day I pick up the paper just to see recent foreclosure listed and they take up about a full page daily so I would says it's 50/50 right now in Polk County, FL.

I'm guessing most will say buy something you can see every day.

I'll take that problem every day of the week.

I'm learning something new every day, that's a great idea.

That title company may have said 2 weeks thinking you wanted to close with them, I'd ask again and specify search only, they do them everyday and one more shouldn't matter.My title company would give me a preleminary search for free, but then I closed with them.

My realtor and I search MLS everyday for new deals.