Have the title company do this, to insure there are no other liens on the property, so you have clear title, for any subsequent sale. 

You will still be in line to recieve the penalty and interest you are owed, but it reduces your subsequent investment risk.

That is the Fannin Mae guidelines on acquiring subsequent mortgages.

I still like doing a lot of the work myself, but I hire more and more of it out on subsequent projects.  

As someone who has owned her own home in Hawaii, but subsequently had to sell it due to a split a little over a year and a half ago, I am well aware of the need for real estate solutions.

[Not legal advice].As for who will be able to buy it off you, and what type of mortgage they qualify for, each potential Buyer and subsequent Lender will have their own story to tell.

That any subsequent bursting will be thee fault if you wish to a "warning".

I'll always leave 2-3% to trail in all subsequent years because if I'm raising rents I'll always have some leases that haven't caught up yet.

Recall that $100k is the long-run fair value of the property in 20XX dollars, not what an enterprising real estate investor could buy an undervalued house for in a down market.That looks somewhat in the ballpark of the 50% rule of thumb to me, but maybe I'm misunderstanding what goes into that calculation.To be sure, real estate is illiquid and risky to some degree, so we would expect a positive return.

All transactions subsequent to last sale are scrutinized., especially if uninsuredAs to the foreclosure, if this was a judicial foreclosure that was until matey taken to sale, I guess I could envision a problem with noticing and due process, but how much due diligence is required in your state?