Further, if the title company has a copy of the signed one, getting them to sign an duplicate will be easier.

Tear all of the paper out, and put it into a copy machine.

Actually, come to think about it, I do not think she has a signed (by me) copy of the lease.

Get a copy of the signed lease so you can familiarize yourself with the terms and conditions (If there is no lease I would not buy).2.

Regardless, I am there from time to time since I manage the property myself and if someone was really determined I think they could copy my license plate # and figure out where I live by paying for a search on that #.The best strategy seems to just screen applicants carefully so that you don't end up with nutty people, although I guess it could still happen.

(I have a copy of the recorded deed.)He didn't say this but he may have some sort of legal things pending that would attach to any property he has in his name, so he'd rather cash out and rent somewhere for a while until he gets it worked out.

Does anyone have copies of the contracts that they use once they talk to people about their funds?

Yes when I had my license all Huds had the same deadbolt so there was a universal key that all Realtors in the city had but the problem was alot of Realtors were making copies of keys and giving them to investors and they couldn't keep track of who was in what homes, I don't know if there still on that same deadbolt system but from what I remember the first 10 days the home is offered for owner occupants and after that it opens for whoever and yes typically Hud lowers the price every week until sold if you talk to an agent they can actually see what dollar amount previous offers came in at and how many offers were made my advice call and agent its not going to cost you anything extra and they could probably help you out quite a bit and assuming you don't sign a buyers agency you aren't obligated to work with them. :)

I would like to collect applications with the $10 application fee and make copies of their recent paystubs and drivers license.

Bill, write your draft in some other text processing tool on your computer, then copy and paste it into BP all at once to avoid these nasty timeouts!