A local attorney with REAL ESTATE experience knows your local laws, knows the industry, and can navigate this deal like a shark in bloody water.Invest in that attorney and protect both sides of the deal.

This had the side benefit of freeing up more Fannie Mae loan slots for us, as the commercial lender was a portfolio lender - meaning they hold their loans in house and don’t sell them to Fannie Mae. 

It seems most of the investors are still circling like sharks waiting for the decline that I think won't happen.

There are some legitimate full service turnkey providers, and there are definitely a few sharks out there as well.

This email has info about pets, security deposit, verbiage about checking the surrounding community, criteria to qualify, link to my website where the application is and lastly a date and time slots for an open house.

I usually get a few different quotes but most of those numbers look ok, the carpet removal should only take you 30 minutes with a razor knife so you might want to do that portion of the job.

I pay them well for this service, but I need it more than the luxury homeowner  with the fat untapped credit card balance down the street whose furnace also conked out on the same day.You need people who will be there for you instead of people who want you to slot you in when it's best for them.

It's a rip off and a racket- legalized shark loaning.

There is a reason it's high risk/high reward--  it's a shark tank, and you need leather skin to handle it, because sometimes it's really, really dark.  

Basically, we've found ourselves in deep water and swimming with sharks!