Is this normally taken care of by title company or do I need to make sure I stipulate it with the seller.

It's actually one of the stipulations laid out on HUD.com- hope this helps!

If you're planning to self manage, you can use the 10% vacation home loan with a few stipulations.

I have a stipulation that earnest money is only due at the end of the inspection period.

It's that taking 1031 money requires a DST, which is a trust, and as per stipulations within a trust the managerial functions are layered with scopes and restrictions.  

Because of their late payments, the contract stipulates a permanent rent hike of $25 for every month they are late from now on.

In the details you can specify the stipulations on these different selling prices as well as what type of buyers you are looking for (loan or cash).

Only stipulation I have is then I would have to live in it for a while and some of the properties I’m looking at buying aren’t close enough to me to do that.

The owner got approval for the fields in 1989 with the stipulation that he make that portion of the land a permanent part of this property (it appears to be 2 family members who lived next door to each other, so I think they all shrugged and blew that part off).

Just means that he is a partner in the deal and you split the proceeds accordingly.If I can't qualify to buy a prop on my own I bring in a money partner that can qualify and have an outside agreement that stipulates who gets what when you sell the property or who gets what % of the cash flow if you keep as a rental.Often you can form an LLC with your partner and spell it all out in your operating agreement.Remember everything is negotiable but if he's bringing the cash he'll want a pretty big chunk of the profits.