Make sure the language says that you can cancel the contract 'in your sole discretion" during the inspection period.

His english was poor so the language barrier made things difficult.

Folks, This is an international site with many people posting on here who's primary language is not English.

I generally wait to see if a city official calls then I go get them... otherwise they stay where they are.

If the Lender will not, than you can always order an official appraisal and have the appraiser send an official copy to both you and the Lender.

This officially my Day One posting on BiggerPockets, so hi to everybody :)I've been flirting with the idea of doing bird dog work over the phone in a kind of "brute force" approach... calling off a list to every home in a given area not on a DNC list and looking for motivated sellers.

(before it's binding, certainly, but not after)I could certainly be wrong, but I'd be very surprised if I ever saw this in a contract, bank or otherwise...I have seen this language in some addendums and Anson is reading it correctly, however, this language is usually only in the addendums when I get access to property direct through the asset managers and I often times purposely fail to initial that section.

His accepted offer came with the counter-offer language of the bank addendum, and so he is not under contract until he signs and returns.

Upon TWO occasions in the last 3 months we have walked in and found him in one of the back bedrooms - when questioned, he could not provide a reasonable explanation for his presence.Contact the property management company to get an official response as to why the building manager was in your unit.If they can't/won't provide an adequate response, file a police report and let the police investigate and try to determine why he may have been in your unit.This is clearly a security issue, and if you don't take any action, you are potentially putting other people's belongings (and potentially their well-being) in potential harm's way.

The official unemployment rate is about 13% with the real rate being in excess of 20%.