For example: FHA will use the last sold price regardless of the appraised value for 6 months...prevention of house flipping.and so on...The Agent Center

The real crunch is that the weather has been fairly cool and this has prevented the mold/water damage from getting to the point where it's not worth touching the property.

> > In defense of private property rights, owners should be exempted from the burdensome and unnecessary rules that this law foists upon them.

And I did see (at least once) a default get cured in time to prevent the auction, where the foreclosure judgment at the county prothonotary ended up becoming "vacated".

The law that covers this is (I can not site the actual wording) the law that states the homeowner must do everything possible to PREVENT WASTE.It is under this statue that a lot of homes get taken by the authorities because the homeowner should have known that their renter was creating waste on the property by their illegal activities.

I thought tough gun control laws prevented that?

It is unnecessary to stop private buyers and sellers from transacting business that is beneficial to both of them--they are not the problem that the bill seeks to solve.

There aren't really any unnecessary expenses.

TeriJust to let you know what you wanted to do the first time is really a simultaneous close or a "dry" close where you use the funds from the second part of the deal to close the first part.Even though this is legal, it is getting much harder to find a title company to do them.and lenders are putting in conditions to prevent them.What your now going to do is a true double close or "wet" close where each transaction is funded separately.

Ralph, If I tow the line, what's to prevent them from wrecking the house out of spite and/or making my life miserable as I try to show the house during the month of July to prospective buyers?