However, such a small price, your loan amount may be below a bank's minimum loan amount, so better call and ensure you can get the money before you contract, and/or make your contract subject to financing with your down payment.If this is a rental, you might ask the seller to finance this, since the loan amount might be hard to finance conventionally, that means he may need to finance or wait for a cash buyer.

From my perspective, it's not just about ensuring that you are legally allowed to invest and that you are able to proper publicly recorded title to a property, it's also about all of the other laws indirectly related to owning the property (ie. the court system, environmental laws, tenant/landlord laws, business laws, etc, etc).

In many cases, the transaction goes more smoothly.More importantly, I would make sure that I am fully represented by my agent as a client (signing the buyer representation agreement), which ensures that he/she has a legal duty to keep your discussions confidential.Congrats on the offer!

I have been looking at unemployment, and population using city-data.com.What are good sources of data for Job diversity?

When I open my data source in Excel I get a an error message that says "This file needs to be opened by the Excel Workbook text converter, which may pose a security risk if the file you are opening is a malicious file.

Policy is set and enforced to ensure a safe and secure banking system for the benefit of our economy.

If you call the electric company they probably can give you the data you need.

If you don't have good egress and have to get it water proof (my basement takes on water every year, we just have our storage boxes on short stilts, as it was way too expensive to fix the problem), it's probably not worth the effort to finish the basement.For rental comps, you could start monitoring Craigslist in the areas you like weekly and putting the data in Excel so that you have higher quality comp data than what is on Craigslist right now.

I am able to search my local counties assessors data, county GIS, and find information about the neighborhood, comps, taxes, and such.

Ratios are taken from verified data, over that from the 1031 and will be on worksheets in the file.