Being current and financially solvent makes it a tough case for a ss.

@Nathan: I'm working on the assumption that Social Security isn't going to be solvent by the time I'm eligible!

In fact, you can offer a discount for an agreement that is secured by a solvent co-signer.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy The best-known goals of the alchemists were the transmutation of common metals into gold (called chrysopoeia) or silver (less well known is plant alchemy, or "spagyric"); the creation of a "panacea", or the elixir of life, a remedy that supposedly would cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely; and the discovery of a universal solvent.[4] Although these were not the only uses for the discipline, they were the ones most documented and well known No matter how much people think that things change, they all stay the same........

Seems like they charge an awful lot to research the title and liens, insure the title, pay off the mortgage if any, prorate utilities and taxes, and file the documents.I'm getting a cheap property, have researched the title and liens online, seller is solvent and has no mortgage and easy to find (lived locally all his life), and am comfortable taking the risk of going without title insurance. 

What happened to the saying "the market can stay irrational longer than we can stay solvent?"

In fact the Obama administration just said last week  something ambiguously implying we should backstop Greece and the Euro as if in it's our economic best interests to keep this failed experiment known as the EU solvent.  

You then infuse it with a solvent and cook it down further (this is where things can go boom).  

Yes, less profit but it's far more important now for me to stay solvent.

Roughly, our business could survive about a 65% vacancy rate and not require any outside funding to keep it solvent.