I had it happen to me on a loan in SF  in 87.we made a second on a property.. ( was common in those days not so much today) and when I got my title insurance we noted there was a 2nd ahead of us that got recorded literally an hour before our loan..

Literally any business must have the potential of scalability in order to become successful.

Literally might be the worst advice on these forums right above.

McAllen is literally the cheapest place to live in America, so that doesn't hurt when trying to attract new folks to move here...

It literally took me years to get all of the pieces into place, but now I have a huge amount of freedom and flexibility.

Once we got possession of the house we literally had to wear respirators to be able to enter the house the cat urine smell was so strong.  

Is it too much to think that he would proactively tell me when the stairs are literally crumbling and the gutter is falling off the side of the house?!

@Roger Paschal is a great resource for Sub To (he wrote the book on it...literally) and here's some local real estate groups I recommend visiting:Real Estate Investing GroupsDFW REI Club – VISIT HERE – meet about 50 times per year.

You will find that government ordinances and statutes literally 99.999999 percent of the time define "owner" to include the beneficial owners of a land trust, and that the "owner" is liable for code violations regarding the corpus of the trust if it is real estate.

But my money is (literally) on Detroit to grossly outperform both markets.Hard to beat that momentum!