If you get 15 to 30 % response that is not just unusual, it is ridiculously successful and you should be ready to take advantage of every single bit of it.

Originally posted by David Niles:...Some of you are pretty lucky, most I ever end up with is junk and all sorts of nasty smells and stains.Well, I thought the theme of the thread was UNusual stuff - smells, stains and insects are the usual stuff they leave behind ... :)

It's not unusual that folks (including many investors) will pay cash for property and regret the decision relatively quickly for one reason or another possibly due to a lack of experience.

Yellow letters have an unusually high expectation for this sort of thing and there are many reasons for that.

I owuld suggest that perhaps the appraiser is bending over backwards somewhat to please and the lender may be looking at compensating factors.

What I don't understand is why you think this is such an unusually big spread.

Overtightening will first bend flange and then crack porcelain. 12.

They want an underwriting fee up front and I was wondering if that was unusual?

It is not unusual for this to be asked................we ask it on every cash-out refinance that we fund.

The process seems very unusual compared to what I've heard about in the PNW, and I've been fortunate enough that my family hasn't had to deal with it here due to disciplined estate planning.