I do a heloc on the house and I am the only borrower on the heloc.

Linda is a great gal and her magazine is a marketing piece for these type of business's.

Let's say there's 3 properties in a 1-mile radius with 5b/3b, but one is a foreclosure and the other 2 are regular conventional sales.If you're doing a comp for your subject (4th) property, do you have to take the foreclosure one into consideration?

This partitioning of the property and doing a simultaneous closing completely changed the trajectory of the deal.

You have to pay people to do things for you, you would normally do yourself.

I do not think anyone in Cleveland will do a good job. 

Suggest you check in with him/her on this additional service as your attorney is already intimately familiar with the file and you can often give them pre-authorized amounts to settle on vs trying to squeeze all the blood from that turnip. 

When i was younger I used to help her with renovations on some of these properties.I asked her about 2 years ago why she never went multifamily and she said that she was afraid of stepping out of her comfort zone and wanted to stick with what she had known and done forever.

Most of them do.

We've decided that we'll likely look for something somewhere in Guanacaste because we want beach AND proximity to airport (LIR).We go each August to visit her family.