Have your lawyer review the title insurance binder to make sure there are no unusual exceptions to the policy. 

Unless there is some unusual procedure in your state/jurisdiction. 

Florida is an unusual state, there are 4-5 distinct markets for real estate and each has its own characteristics.Tallahassee / pan handle - unless you are from there, I do not recommend itNorth Florida (Jacksonville) and as far south as Daytona - I am bias, I am from there and have great cash flow.Orlando - It is getting overheated - hard to cash flowTampa - There are still good opportunities to cash flow.Miami - Looks more like other big east coast cities like NY, LA, SF, DC.  

Not unlike poker, you want to make decisions that bend the odds to your favor, jumping in and blindly buying just because you want to get that first investment under your belt does not stack the odds in your favor.Being young, this is the time to make mistakes and learn from them, but it's also the time that will be most difficult to recover from mistakes. 

@Amy Haas - your experience is not too unusual here and underscores the importance of having a good realtor AND a good inspector.

I also purchased a 20 unit apartment complex in South Bend, Indiana which is a 2 hour drive.

Try to bend and conform to the whims of the small minded, only to be left drained and frustrated.Then I got old and callous and realized that attitude would start bleeding into all aspects of my relationships if I didn't take hold and control of the 3% PITA people that were wrecking my LL experience.I just said this yesterday.

Tenant Improvement funds is not unusual in commercial real estate.

I am sure you know that there are only 4 major title insurance underwriters in the US so there is a good chance your title company and theirs' ultimately have the same underwriterBeing an Attorney I can understand your requests for information regarding the trust but ultimately it is the Title companies job to procure the documents and I would guess that would be an unusual request from a buyer and they probably just do not have a clue as how to handle it. 

Nobody needs the aftermath of that (except those of us who do well with foreclosures I suppose).The other thing to keep in mind is that the Bay Area is behaving a little unusually.