It's a small expense in the scheme of things and it will pay you back ten-fold in peace of mind.Best of luck!

But the bigger, and more important pro, is peace of mind. 

You have to decide where can you both have peace of mind?

Peace!

I am always trying to enhance my DD skills and would love to see what others are doing.

For example a common strategy in real estate investment is to find a well performing asset with a good cap rate (i.e. good property level return) and further enhance this return by financing/leveraging it so as to yield even higher CoC (i.e. investor level return).So conceptually we can say that when Leverage = 0 then CoC = Cap Rate.

The peace of mind I get even if i spend 2k and it comes back clean is worth it to me.

This won't help for the bank, but can give you peace of mind to pay that 600-800, or know that you shouldn't.If you don't have a relationship with a realtor already, just try reaching out to some, especially realtors on BP, they'll likely be wiser and more willing to help.

The easiest answer is for you to get on board with Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University and get your personal finances under control.

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