Yes,  no, maybe.The free seminar will be the warm up for the weekend seminar which will be the warm up for the "pay me a bunch of money and I will hold your hand and reveal secrets only know to a few"and I will make you rich.Don't worry if you have cash they take credit cards.IMHOGood Luck

They also won't reveal the agents that did the BPO's, which I'd be interested to look up their sales history and background in rehabbing properties.  

Each step you take reveals a new horizon.

Also, to get financing for a 101 unit apartment, you have to show you have experience or partner with someone with experience with a multi unit apartment of similar size.To get the building for as little money down as possible, listen to my podcast: http://Biggerpockets.com/show65In that podcast interview, I revealed how I was able to buy a $6M building (100+ units) with only $5,000 cash out of pocket.

If you inspection reveals that previously unexpected repairs are needed, your counter-offer should reflect that.

And, at the end of the day, the free market has a nasty habit of revealing the true value of any kind of asset at a static moment in time. 

Once you reveal you are related to the seller, the short sale will be disssllowed.  

If they were, they would have never revealed their techniques to you, but rather made tons of money quietly, without these pompous parades.

Interviews with friends and family reveal you knew about the problems, believed these were exaggerated issues and did nothing.

This is not illegal, because those fees are technically available in the state from some hypothetical settlement services provider that you could hypothetically use (if you were hypothetically an idiot).And you see a nice sexy bottom line number that you find appealing, and pick your lender based in part on "lowest fees," as you did.Then, a week or two into escrow, the lender "discovers" the actual title/escrow fees (they naturally don't even bother asking for them until it's too late for you to switch lenders, and the appraisal is done, etc, because they don't **want** to discover the actual fees juuust yet).Because they quoted you "real" title/escrow fees upfront, and because a full thorough audit will reveal that the lender did not "discover" the actual fees until a day or two prior to you receiving the "updated" disclosure, no law has been broken and this is a lawful practice.I personally go the other way, and quote the most expensive title/escrow fees in my market for purchase transactions.