Maybe find a different attorney that will be more hands on and take time to review things.

Meaning no skirting around it.Could I negotiate with the seller to have the title retired before hand so that I can just use bank financing to begin with?

So far, it's been great, everything takes time and work, no matter how hands off you are.

Fastest growing part of AR hands down !

Yup, it'll be treated as self employment and you will have to hand-hold your HR department in Canada since they don't normally fill out US mortgage paperwork.

I disagree with previous answers.If the tenant owed money to the previous Landlord, that's for them to work out.The issue at hand is something different.

On the one hand you can see that on the day the transaction was completed they got all The money that was due to them based on the facts of that point, going forward they are not the owners of the house anymore so if we got a tax credit or a tax increase it does not really concern them, on the other hand you could say that they took the effort to do this and since that credit was applied to the year they sold the house they should have a prorated amount based on the months they lived in this house.The second question is why didn't the sellers lawyer contact us directly, as the lawyer we used for the transaction is not really working for us on a regular basis and is not our regular counsellor.

Initially they were buying large portfolios of properties and unloading them - getting them off the banks hands more quickly at a discount. 

His young son's got a "work station" at his shop and is his "right hand man". 

I am very hands on about plumbing and electric, but won't do roofing or major drywall like a room gut.