Worried this home has a bad septic and want to test it before we are officially under contract.

They work *better* if there are clear lines of delineation between responsibilities and authority.

While I am not directly familiar with Texas, I can tell you most state licensing authorities have pretty broad authority over their licensees.  

They believe they can't do it, but don't want to hear no officially.4.

However usually the authorities will not force you to bring a building up to code if it is safe in the condition that it is in.

Official date was October 16th.Now the real headache begins! 

Of course, get all the documents that go with putting a property in a land trust: the deed, the trust document that does NOT get filed, limited power of attorney, release of information authorization, assignment of beneficial interest, and most importantly get the sellers NEW address and their phone number in case you need to contact them in the future.C I have never used a servicing company to accept payments for my properties, but then again, I dont have that many.

@Tommy Vise What you need is someone who has the capacity, title and authority to sell to you.

I now officially own the house!  

Also, I made a typo the author's last name is Warr (thanks, autocorrect!).