but to be frank i never used it since we get date downs on the phone and TRIOS e mailed to us while we are on the phone.. a TRIO in our market is the picture of the assessors page.. lots of info.. copy of last recorded deed  how they took title.. and a plat map.. this was key to us.. since all i needed was the last recorded deed and I could do my own warrnety deeds in house.. the deed had the legals.. and current vesting.. so you just did a deed from current owner to my company takes less than 5 minutes to prep.. get them to a notary and walk it into the recorders office.. thats how we did most of our deals as there was never time to get title insurance.. now to be fair one off investors may have trouble taking title this way when they go to resell.. but we have our relationships so they were good insuring our purchases.. but do be careful trying this yourself.. especially hand written deeds.. 

I reached out to the listing agent during the first auction, and he promised to have it fixed, but now we're on the fourth auction and it still hasn't been.This is not fair for those who are bidding, nor for the homeowners across the street who are not behind on their mortgage and not selling their house.How can I get this fixed?

You want it for at least 20% below market, which is $132,800.You go through with a contractor and he estimates $20,000 in repairs so you pad it a little and say $25,000 to cover some undiscovered issues.You offer the owner $107,800 and tell them this is your bottom line to ensure you can make the necessary repairs and turn a "reasonable profit."

Get a second opinion when you are not sureOnly take someone who answers "all" your questionI am more then glad to try to answer any specific questions as far as fair pricing 

Their instructions/directions on using the site are fairly convoluted;  however I am still able to pull up L/T closed cases in 5 boroughs and Long Island, even though the directions (#3) if i'm reading correctly, say they are not reporting L/T cases for those areas.  

When I bid my labor for demolition (which is a fairly unskilled job, like painting interior walls) I view ~$1,200 as 4 men for a day

Now our driver was to have a student rental for our daughter, but I think the model worked fairly well, other than we had a few other criteria that a female college student who was also our daughter required.

I  don't know how to go about negotiating a fair deal for us both. 

I still have friends in college and my girl friend still has two more years of schooling for her master's degree which makes finding tenants fairly easy.

My advice is free so take it for what it is worth but ensure you have a good exit strategy in place before you buy.