If you were to put in an offer on something it could be done electronically, or someone from the office could chip in while your agent is away.

The FHA appraiser flagged the chipping paint and said the entire house had to be painted in order for the bank to lend the money.

Yeah, getting my wife on board is a challenge, but I'm actively chipping away at that!

All Car Tries sold since 2006 had to be chipped with RFID under the patriot act so i'm just applying a little Tech already being used to keep my properties and tenacts safe.

Chris Sullens as others mention this is referred to as double close and typically needs the wholesaler to fund the first part with transactional funding which costs them about 2%If you want to push back on them you can use this as your bargaining chip.

From all that I've read, lead and asbestos are not that big of a deal unless one inhales dust, eats paint chips, or something of that nature.  

The seller wanted to close quick and not deal with FHA appraiser nitpicking on chipping paint at the outdoor stairs and couple of knob and tube wires in the basement.

Tile can withstand just about anything outside of an appliance falling directly on it and chipping/cracking it.

Regarding my condo rentals, so far I have been very lucky, my biggest complaint is with the increase in the HOA fee every year coupled with tax increases every year, I cant increase my rent to match the increase as I'm already getting market to above market rent.... so its slowly chipping into my profits.

One can chip it off peace by peace as deals come in, with no extra closing cost beyond the deal your already closing on.A good example is I have a small portfolio of 33 units that we picked up for 1.8 million a few years ago, it just hit an evaluation of 4.5 million, we will be able to tap 2 million of that net difference if we wanted.