We found out who held the note; it had been sold twice and was a non performing, first position note.

I remarked that the inspector who officiated over this issue allowed me to run a pop-off (TPV) drain line through the attic since the crawl space is considered non-accessible.

It is not at all uncommon for commercial leases (also non-residential contracts) to have an arbitrary, high, deposit requirement.

The reason I am considering College Rentals is I assume with proper location one would have below average vacancy and would be able to rent units out for larger monthly rents than a similar unit would rent for in a non College Rental market.

He has been non resposnsive at best though.

MO is a non-disclosure state, so the normal websites I would go to get this info on my own don't have any sales prices, so I need someone with MLS access.

It would be one thing if they had a major medical condition that could be cured with a sizeable inheritance.

A 10% non-refundable deposit held by YOUR title agent.

If so, is the reserve price disclosed or non-disclosed?

A lot of it had to do with marketing to the MCM, things such as "concierge medical plans", "shared vacation homes", "shared Winnebagos" etc, which really doesn't interest me.But a lot of it had to do with the mindset that got these MCM where they are today.