My nervousness and haste made me forget to get ask for a copy of the key to the home (I'm told that having access to the property aids in allowing potential wholesale buyers to view the property if need-be).

I am from Texas and understand that there are serious restrictions on lease options.

You have access to great info, but you also need to learn a great deal about repair and improvement costs, methods, and materials, and the vendors that provide them.

State licensed architect or engineer fees are not restricted by this fee schedule.

It cost $495 to start and is registered with the BBB, and as far as being a note broker goes I'm going to go with Wes-State it requires $149 to start gives you access to Note Holders (they don't know if they're selling, but knows they have notes), Investors who'll pay 5-10% for locating a note for sale that they buy, and the chance to partner up with company, if you tell them about a note and they buy it they'll split the profits 50/50, and it's registered with the BBB.

Do real estate investors and agents have free access to this data in most cases or is there a fee?

Might not be the sort of job you want to do your self, but if you have access to the underside of the floor you can at least see what's going on.

I can retrieve the message through my cell phone by calling the service, or I can access it via the website, which stores them, and yuou can play the message right on your computer.

Are there to many restrictions here?

Section 8 tenants could loose their access to their funding (at least in Tx during our ownership interval) if they caused problems, we had very little trouble.