This is a very good point. 10% a month or $100-200 bucks, how much do you really expect the PM to do.

I'm based in Bucks County, PA, but I frequently visit Ocean County, NJ, and Southwest Florida.

Glad this post of yours was restored Patricia, i like the topic, thanks for posting.My rates have always fluctuated too however it hasn't hurt my ranking with VRBO.Personally, i noticed for my listing, the ranking improved once i achieved greater than 50+ reviews and once my listing matured (listing age greater then 4 yrs).

That’s when you can get a lot of bang for your buck on the ARV side. 

Also many title companies TODAY require a KNOWN notary.. so either they do it or they send you a vetted mobile notary that will cost you 150 to 200 for each sig.and yes this is why you dont buy the way the OP bought.. now he has a to chase his tail all to save a few bucks up front on title and escrow fees.. 

There's a website called intelius which allows you to do unlimited people searches in a 24 hour period for only about 25 bucks.

It essentially guarantees the lender a portion of the interest remaining that Would have been paid if the loan went to maturity.

Vista sells them for 80 bucks.  

All done through govdeals.com At this point the easiest and simplest and least costly thing to do is to just go to your local attonrey that does real estate closing and Pay for a title commitment/  We call them preliminary title reports on the left coast.. get the report and read it.. usually cost 200 to 400 bucks.. we get them for free from our title companies based on our volume of orders we send them..

The cost of materials is negligible, just a couple hundred bucks.