Case in point, good friend of mine here in Houston reached out last year because he was buying a lake house on Lake Travis.

The case in Aurora is quite the extreme and the building is just owned by a majority slummy type owner(s) who just don't want to put in any money.

Case in point: on a recent shortsale I am working on, I was able to get a 30-day extension on the foreclosure auction date (from Feb 4 to March 6 of this year)."

The tenant couldn't care less-- they don't get the fine....Improve your lease in this case; in my lease, if the tenant does not perform something included in their responsibilities that results in a fine, then the tenant is going to get billed for the fine.

If you find that is the case in Oregon, then just get transactional funding to close your A to B transaction.

I wonder if I’d have a case in small claims court.

There are companies that do it for you after creating but its just another expense thats not the case in most States.

I imagine this is the case in some of the more desirable markets.  

That is not the case in most other (even developed) markets. 

In my case, my realtor was easily able to ask the title company we were going to use, referred by her (same case in this example), so she had access to this information, instantly.