Even if I have him sign escrow instructions and his grant deed and deliver back to escrow, he can still instruct escrow not to record if he decided to.This property is around 600k, so my monthly carrying costs will be around 5k/mo. 

I personally see no reason a selling agent with block someone from seeing a property, unless they had instructions from the seller to do so (and it was legal).

@Doug Pretorius @Jordan Moorhead @Theo Hicks, since all of your responses are similar, I figured I'd group my response to all.

My colleague @Chris Seveney looked into it and here was his response:  PSASome of you may have seen some people posting on other sites about a company that will finance NPL’s.

It isn't the contractor's responsibility to then replace them at their cost because you now changed your mind.

You can test how confident she really is in her friend’s ability to pay by asking if she’d be willing to co-sign for him, just to gauge her response.

2) Which member(s) have decision making responsibilities?

I have done this  in the past but also require a lease break fee in addition to them being responsible for all rent until their lease expires.

Account Closed, thanks for your response!

Email this loan officer or account executive several questions (at least 7) and see how detailed and quick there response is.The type of questions you ask really do not matter, you are giving them a test.