In the event an applicant is rejected and reports me for an FHA violation I can prove I didn't even know the person was a convict, etc.If an applicant makes it this far and then a background check turns over a criminal history I will have to manually see if this history conflicts with having a legitimate and substantial effect on the community (e.g. a sex offender in an MHP full of families with little children is a non-starter for me).

I'd like to transition into real estate investment, and that's the reason I'm part of the BP community.But, I'm curious.. for those who are already engaged in RE investment, what tools or technologies do you think the industry could use and benefit from that doesn't really exist yet?

Depending on the bank, what review stage it is in already, will effect the time frames for review of the new offer. 

There were a lot of requirements that had to be met, and a snowball effect of ever larger appreciation from the laws of supply and demand took over.

I will do some searching on BP and see if I can find out how to effectively do those searches.The way you close your deals is really how I would like to try to close mine.

Increasing your insurance and buying an umbrella policy is probably a better, cheaper, more effective way to go if you just own one property.    

Live readings on an individual water device are not cost effective in most cases.

So we (North Americans) are sitting on the largest reserves in the World of an efficient, clean burning, and cost effective fuel source (Natural Gas) and the politicians response is to ban using it.Only in government folks.

Oh and after some reading, I got a little confused about the "magic" date of 2008 when this law when into effect.

@Stephen Moskowitz I actually just had a long conversation with a realtor in Staten Island who told me they've seen a substantial drop in the number of houses being flipped due to the after effects of Hurricane Sandy.