You control what you sign, so protect yourself, that's what contingencies are for.

We called the town office and the seller paid $36 for it 8 years ago in a desperate estate deal (owner died unexpectadly, left wife with 18 properties she dumped in a hurry) The neighborhood is quaint, near a public school, decent.In order to pad the bank account for our down payment/closing, I decided to borrow $3500 from a low interest credit card.

I can tell anyone who cares to listen firsthand that when someone wants to rip you off, and you didn't do better due dilligence up front, and didn't take steps to protect yourself your best bet is to get over it and move on.The worst part about that whole deal is to stay wallowing in all that bad energy.

It also protected me on higher end properties.

I work with attorneys, brokers, trustees or the general public.

We have a public computer there, and the clerks were kind enough to teach me how to use their system.

I have online access to my county's Public Trustee's records database, but I'm having trouble finding any Notice of Default etc records.

Does Florida have what they call a "public report" for pre-sales?

The acquisition of my company has completed as of Friday and the public announcement was made earlier this morning.http://polycom.com/investor_relations/1,1434,pw-221-17259,FF.html

after all this information is stored in the public record at the county court house.