I know it's not official until I initial the changes, but I decide to send it to my lawyer.He goes nuts! 

@ryan @Ryan Landisgreat, glad you officially introduced yourself!

I'm being facetious, and assuming you don't have a paragraph about that, then I would look up the law in your state to determine at what point you can have the place rekeyed officially and take back possession.

Also, if there is a chance here, and I can add my spouse to title or fully transfer now before the end of 2015, can she take advantage retroactively of expenses incurred earlier in the year before she was officially part of the ownership for the tax year?

Then the next morning I woke up and was like, wait a minute, either I keep doing what I am doing and I keep getting the same, or worse, results or I change my attitude and please excuse my language, but I had to stop being a little biotch.

No official appraisal.

  :)  When you first get to each property, take a picture of the house number (mailbox or front of house) first; that'll help you figure out which pictures go with which houses when you look at them later.The house itself:You can't give it the same level of inspection that a real official inspector can, but you can look for obvious things. 

In this case, it is easier to have your own contract with all your own language and out clauses.

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