But rental is assumed so you get the credit or extra income based on Appraiser survey of local rents for similar homes to get the mortgage approved.

The problem with this is that if you get a thorough and complete survey by a capable LOCAL surveyor, you will see a note in the survey that only the parties certified have rights to it and that the survey is only to be used for that particular transaction.

The seller may not require a survey or appraisal (you may want to order those for your own protection). 

Land is a very complicated deal to put together I would get the parcel number and look it up to see the zoning on it and survey history.

I'm taking a marketing class and need to survey realtors to find out what they think about the use of drones in real estate.

In addition, the dip in the average rent was the largest amount recorded in the 30 yr history of the survey.

Would I have to get an environmental survey?

I ran across this situation and my broker was able to do the deal by looking at the assessor's data vs the survey provided by the HOA.

That will raise the question of who will pay for the title work and surveys.

You can pay for an environmental survey to verify.I simply will not touch a property with an environmental problem, So if I wanted that property, I would make my offer contingient upon an environmental survey and if it came back as contaminated, I would back out of the deal.If would cost me more than the $56,000 you are offering to clean up several years of oil and antifreeze dumped on the ground.Then after it was cleaned up, I'd be required to disclose and buyers would shy away.No thanks.