Typically September through February is the slower season but less options and vice versa during the summer months.

I received a response from someone new whose title at the bottom of email says the president of urban construction mgt.

@Tom DohertyHey Tom,Credit and the property are a package deal, so a great property won't necessarily override a borrower with nasty credit and vice versa.  

Where I live, just two blocks in a certain direction can make a tremendous difference in the home values and I imagine that the algorithm pulls information from comps more than two blocks away which could inflate the estimate, or vice versa.

Having personal and 401k accounts under the same log in creates a possibility of accidentally mixing the funds or using 401k account for personal expenses and vice versa 

Got the letter personally from the board president that there was a board meeting on such and such date, and approval granted for the unit was granted to me.

For the sake of time spent on analyzing deals, I’d advocate using the 1% rule (or some adjusted number...maybe it’s a .8% rule for a duplex, or a .7% rule for a SFH, or vice versa, etc.).

If he WANTS to pay a fee and doesn't want to include you in the deal that's fine, vice versa is fine too.

Costa Rica has no army and elects a new president every four years.

One interesting workaround I’ve heard for this is to appoint yourself as a “President” of an LLC with such signing authority as described a little at the 10 minute mark of this video.