Certainly a regional or local bank will ONLY have that geography and a national entity will have that geography plus more.

As long as you follow fair housing rules, and don't use race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or handicap in your criteria, it is your decision.

Was able to find out the property had several liens through the title company, but unable to get a numerical value on them.

By macro, here I mean national (U.S.) market.If you had to place the country as a whole into one of the spots on this diagram, which would you say we're in now?

When a seller does a Flat Fee MLS listing, they are no longer FSBO, as they are using an agent to list them on the MLS.The above point is very important.When agents see that a seller wants to do a Flat Fee MLS listing, they incorrectly point to a report by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) that claims FSBO sales makes less money than agent sales.

I came across a property in a popular vacation spot in the Olympia national park.

I am a wholesaler as well at a national wholesale brokerage.

The pros are numerous including; lower down payments, low fees, flexible terms, no prepayment penalties, etc.

In fact, you have to actually become behind for numerous months before they do that.

Short side note- homes in my area are relatively inexpensive compared to national averages.