He ended up having to sell the home instead of renting it out, which wasn’t part of his original plan.

Consult an expert, but my understanding of a 1031 is that you can't pay cash for the next deal unless you paid cash for the original one. 

Residents in flood-prone areas were offered newly built, elevated homes on safer ground in exchange for transferring the title of their damaged original homes to the city. 3.

In response to your original question, closing agents should handle private loans just like a bank loan. 

My markup is always lower than the original lender's because I don't spend money advertising during the Super Bowl, my president doesn't have a corporate jet, and we don't have layers of management we need to pay.

If I add up all the lender fees and my holding costs—like points, origination fees, and interest —I can figure out how much profit I’ll make and what my maximum offer should be.

They originally wanted to phase out STRs with deed transfer, but the complexity and lawsuit risk of that verbiage had them change to this. 

Originally posted by @Taylor McClure:I was talking to a man a week or so ago, and he said that his friend used to buy properties that were a few days prior to foreclosure.

Originally from Texas.  

You purchased your property in 2017 with an expected rent amount of $1,549 on the original property evaluation.