A claim I know of in Seattle took over two years  to process because the insurance company and the homeowner fought over the value of the property, thusly the amount of the payoff.But, I've also toured a different house that had about the same amount of damage as the photo above that was REO (owned by the bank), so that one went through foreclosure and either before the auction or after the auction someone set it on fire, I can't remember the sequence. 

This part of landlording and managing property has always confused me, so I'm hoping to learn if there is a "best sequence" to use when prospects call to express interest in a  property for rent?   

I have a suspicion of the sequence of what happened. 

RE is not an assembly line of switches to execute in sequence.

FINDTo find off market deals we execute a two part direct marketing sequence to brokers and property owners.

Automated follow up sequences with built-in tasks and text/email autoresponders.

leads captured from: D4D$, birddogs, networking, (most important)leads broken down into lists: mail sequences, follow ups, drip campaigns, postcards seq, letter seq.

The project manager is all about sequence of events, budgets and timelines.

Plot: Plot refers to the sequence of events inside a story which affect other events through the principle of cause and effectI had just finished remodeling the last apt in my latest multifamily rental property.

It becomes a closing contingency the closing agent handles.In a "normal" closing with conventional financing, the technical sequence is title is passed and then the note and security interest are created on the property to guarantee the note.