Here are the fees: Survey Fee $135 Title - Abstract $750 Title - Closing Fee $300 Title - E-Recording Fee $15 Title - Examination Fee $175 Title - Federal Court Check $50 Title - Final Title Report $120 Title - Lender's Title Insurance $617 Title - Title Services Fee $150 Title - Uniform Code Cert $50Total: $2,362!!!

I am putting the works in motion to purchase & rehab an SFH in a C class neighborhood possibly in Florida or Kansas in a few months.

You're going to come up against the fannie/freddie county loan limit hitting you if this is a SFR, or you're going to go with a jumbo product where it's per investor and outside of fannie/freddie world of ballpark uniform guidelines.

When you are running 300 doors like she is talking about you must be uniform in your actions.

I found a direct mortgage lender here on these forums, and we went through the motions in applying and getting approved.

So I dug this up: 1997 Uniform Housing Code Section 503(b), Health and Safety Code Section 17958.1It states something along the lines of...Every dwelling unit must have at least one room which must have at least 120 feet of floor area.

If any one has advice for me I am always willing to listen and put that advice into motion. 

The Uniform Residential Loan Application has a question that reads: "Is part of the down payment borrowed?"

If you want to come in with guns loaded and ready to fire in order to overcome underwriting objections and preemptively "prove your innocence," dig for your old Uniform Residential Loan Applications where you signed indicating your "intent" to move into the various properties, when applicable, and then dig up some old bills from a few months after purchase that were mailed to that address, proving that you did indeed do as you said you "intended" to do each and every time.An underwriter with an IQ over 70 will be able to look at an interest rate on your mortgage statement, look at the date the loan was originated on your credit report, and instantly know if you purchased that property as a primary residence or as an investment property. 

Unlike consumer loans, these suits have been uniformly unsuccessful for the borrower.