@Colleen F. n WA is a title and escrow state he simply needs to walk into any title company with his contract that he can buy at office depot.. in this area they are called Stevens Ness forms.. fill in the blanks and for this simple transaction that is all that is needed title co will handle the rest.. lawyer would be over kill....

So he wind up obtaining no money down properties from tired landlords, a win/win for both.

It appears the bank simply winterized the house, but later the water company shut off from the outside due to an outstanding balance of 154.

Put simply, do you care more about monthly cash flow or long term appreciation potential?

Anyway you go, short of putting a new loan on that property for the cost of improvements (and that's iffy because the IRS doesn't generally like financing placed right before a sale) you're not going to get the money back from the sale without a taxable event.So you may want to count the cost of simply taking $25K out of the proceeds as taxable boot and using those to repay your realtor.Or purchase the replacement property and then do a cash out refi to access the funds to pay them back. 

Realtors are simply there to move the process along. 

Not trying to generalize here, simply talking from experience.I actually bought the building for a reasonable price.

He seemed "annoyed" that I had to do that and didn't simply buy the house.

Carloz Gil like others have said you’ll want to call and simply see if they will raise your limit.From there pay off all your old CC debt.Finally no one else has answered your other question as far as mortgage rates.

It simply states in their lease that they are responsible for snow/lawn care.