Search here as I think they have been talked about beforeI will say some of their MD tax sale info is incorrect and some out of date by at least 10 years. 

Maybe my understanding is incorrect, but everything I have ever heard or been told is that once you counter back, you can't just say, forget it and take their last offer.

But this request would probably be denied unless there was good proof that is was done incorrectly or used bad comps.At this point I am not even sure contractually you are allowed to go with a backup offer as there are no grounds to not accepting the sellers offer.

However, and this may just be incorrect information, people have mentioned that after several years (6 or 7 I believe) you no longer receive the great tax breaks from having that rental property.

Initially the 3.5 percent was throwing me off and I was approaching it incorrectly.

Are they incorrectly charging maintenance to the tenants deposit then reimbursing themselves each month?

But could it be that the bank is calculating the DTI incorrectly because they don't know how to account for investment property correctly in the formula????

Some is incorrect.

The term is over used and used incorrectly to state the least.

Those comments are just fluff for the viewers in my opinikn David thats actually incorrect as you can take additional cash out of the equity of the home to include home improvements.