Check to see if it transfers to you (I doubt it) but you may be able to get a reduced reinsurance rate from the original title company. 

Sure it's great to have access to the MLS and reduce your purchase by 3% (or whatever).

There is also some room for upside on the $900 unit as the current property manager currently lives there getting reduced rents, but I don't want to get too fluffy with my assumptions.Owner: older lady who has owned the property for 20+ years and wants to retire/cash out.Tenants: all (except the property manager) occupied by long-term, older tenants.  

If I can find a lender that will provide 80% LTV and I have greater than 80% equity, I'd like to roll the closing costs into the loan to reduce and/or eliminate my out of pocket costs.2.

If someone came to you with tight deadlines and a seemingly stressful situation, would you stop what you were doing to make them a priority? 

Being offered at a 8% cap, but lots of room to increase rents and reduce expenses.

Sometimes the total savings to you by doing lease to own is over 8%, which on a $200,000 property is $16,000.Enclosed are some articles from the Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Realtor.com, USA Today and some other public newspapers, about Lease to Own and Seller Financing.Many realtors don’t know a thing about Seller Financing or Lease to Own, and their Brokers do not encourage their Agents to talk to Sellers about it.I currently have at least 2 “Lease to Own Buyers” that are interested looking at your house, that will give you full price for your house, and save you quite a bit of money.In order to properly explain this to you, I need to sit down with you and go through the positives and negatives of this decision, so that you can make a good decision about your home sale.I get paid from the buyer so you don’t have to pay me anything.Please call xxx-xxx-xxxx so we can sit down for 30 minutes and go over the basics of how this works for you and your family.Sincerely,Brian GibbonsInnovative Property LLCAssisting Home Sellers Solve [email protected]_______________________________If you notice the letter stresses saving money and doesn’t tell them how it works, and also educates the seller was some mainstream articles from national newspapers and realtor.com.Print the cover letter to a generic homeowner on good letterhead, and print the articles on good letterhead.You can use a binder clip to get them altogether.If there is no one home when you knock on the door, don’t leave this free report in the mailbox, or or don’t hand it to a child with the parents not home.

Thanks in advance for any input, we’re in a really stressed situation with very little time.

I think it's a great way to kickstart your investing career, but speaking from experience, it can be very stressful and uncomfortable to come home and see them every day.

(sight unseen from Thailand)  Nerve wracking and a bit more risky, but you reduce risk with a good realtor, property manager etc.