Well that struck terror because I've heard the horror stories about folks actually buying the lot next door to the one they thought they were bidding on.Well it turned out to be incorrect I bought the property I wanted, but for some reason the law firm who handles the recording made a mistake.

There are agents running around in this market who have no clue what is happening and advising buyers/sellers incorrectly.  

Jon sorry didn't mean to paraphrase you incorrectly, just to think about where capital should go was my point.

The plumber just would do the rough in correct and we would do the finish work??

The title company incorrectly calculated the per diem payoff amount by about a week too much.

But if you are tenant then I would approach your landlord first because in a lot of municipalities the landlord can get fined along with the tenant so they are usually pretty helpful in correcting the situation.

That's when I found out what she had done was replace the faucet, and did it incorrectly, instead of the magical story of how the faucet magically leaked on it's own but she couldn't send me pictures for some reason...After much explaining with this tenant that she would be responsible for the repair, she magically found her way to home depot to buy a replacement faucet that was exactly the same as before and get it installed correctly.

The online estimates are notorious for being incorrect sometimes ;).

What @Jonathan Greene said above is correct as far as if you think it's easy, quick money, that is incorrect, however you can do well if you are willing it put in some serious work. 

not sure why property management companies are providing tax advise when it is incorrect...Prepaid rent is considered incomeRead constructive receipt regarding hold-back by a property management company.