If you have made any preservation improvements, you will not be paid for those.

this is tricky, it tends to be a case by broker-case basis, and only a handful of brokers control the bank-owned..yikes......i forgot if the agent can rep. the bank and you, there in NC, if you make offer..Just thinking out-loud and opinion, not telling you what to do, dont know your plan (hold, flip, or your funding):  ...get over there, with a property preservation buddy, assess the repair and upgrades, (unless its already pretty perfect or you feel the agent can give you some accurate idea)...ask agent what he/she can sell for in good condition, confirm.. then factor arv, repairs needed, make offer with 10 day due diiigence professional inspection......are you offering an almost full retail-market priced forclosure anyway, then are you going to hold it for cash flow? 

The admins/moderators could set it up and then lock it to preserve the content.My $0.02

http://wfpl.org/the-future-of-floyds-fork-louisvil...I frequently kayak and kayak fish at Floyd's Fork. There is a lot of land available and the area and I've always thought it was a matter of time before you saw more...

This preserves the estate tax credit and passes it along to the surviving spouse so when the surviving spouse dies, the children could use both parents estate tax credits in the same estate.

Far from preserving privacy, they often attract extra attention.

and you cant split a duplex into two halfplexes... they did this to preserve rental stock... this is a major YMMV situation.  

If you did not sign any agreement to rectify any closing errors and in Vermont the title attorney is responsible to verify clear title...hell, everyone knows how to check to see if taxes are current...I would be inclined to pay the taxes “as lender” to preserve the property just like WF will do for insurance if you do not set up a policy, flood insurance in a flood zone if not paid, and property taxes if not paid (that is why they escrow...to preserve the collateral).

I just know when we visited the friends farm and he outlined about $80,000 in income he was getting for land that no one was using and as a real estate investor, that just seemed amazing to me.Getting paid for doing nothing from the government, getting people to buy his grass and he backs up to a landlocked nature preserve, so he gets paid by the government again to drive across his land so they can get to the nature preserve that they are studying for something. 

buy quality assets look for capital preservation over return..