You can bird dog, take pictures, get quotes from contractors as a local, etc. 

I suspect the brokerage community is going to start telling their agents to turn in violators.one of my Oregon bird dogs just put a sign in the yard neighbor got pissed off as they wanted the house turned him into the state .. its kind of like getting a DUI  cost you about 10 to 15k first offense and a cease and desist..So then I went on to ask her about transactional funding as I have been a party to that a bunch of times and wanted to make sure I was legal.. she said NO way.. they deem that as some sort of fraud.. idea is the lender and wholesaler are in cahoots and scheming and marketing a property they dont' own and its prima facia evidence when they see two deeds in one day and a middle man payout.so bottom line you need to get into title and stay there for a few weeks BEFORE you market the property.. but as the regulator said.. they only respond to complaints right now.. so don't piss off any sellers or agents  LOL. 

The wholesaler gets the property under a P&S contract, then sells that contract to the end buyer and is paid an assignment fee.A "bird dog" finds properties matching the buyer's criteria, similar to a wholesaler, but does NOT get the property under contract, similar to a buyer's agent / broker.

In this senario I would be able to refi out my monthly PMI sooner as well, two birds one stone. 

Finding deals for other real estate investors by bird dogging and wholesaling are other avenues you may want to pursue.

Thanks,  Assuming that letter is accompanied by a check or wire that pays the mortgage off in full(1), then said mortgage will appear on your credit report as paid in full. :) Otherwise, sounds like guru junk. (1) Not snark.

If you are familiar with the term “Bird Dog”, a real estate agent is just a bird dog who is licensed to be one; 2) After getting your license, you’ll spend about $2,000 per year +\- to keep your license, regardless of whether or not you’ve actually made a dime, so be prepared to do something that first year to cover the cost of getting and keeping the license; 3) The average annual salary of a real estate agent is $42,000 per year according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the federal agency that tracks what different jobs pay across the country.

Use BP to educate yourself on wholesaling and bird dogging.  

I understand that bird dogs and wholesalers are effective team members in the single family home arena. 

I am heavily leading toward prorating just the one day accompanied by a written explanation of the prorated day including “living condition language”.