As unprofessional as it is Eminem has got a song "Success is my only Bleep Bleep option failures not."

Although on really cheap deals Ive referred out to some Baltimore agents, I forgo a referral fee and just ask them to send me a referral if they get one more for my area.  

Please don't think I'm overstating or being melodramatic; I've been a landlord for going on 40 years and have learned to expect the worst.

Is there a way I can forgo paying the PMI? 

All the above said this is why I forgo inspections since I know more than most of them about houses. 

For more on the Liquidity Trap and turning Japanese (not the song) see this by Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge and more recently this from Joe Calhoun over at Alhambra Investment Partners.

I have been doing business the last year in Charleston and I have 3 properties in escrow now that have been in escrow for going on 6 to 8 months while they try to clear up the title issues.

First banks won't allow assignments and second good luck trying to get banks to forgo the deposit.

With any investment there are going to be losers but these losers get to sleep in the street.Cat Stevens wrote a song "Where are the children going to play" with our greed we have changed that to "Where are the children going to live".

so the buy for cash and fix will be a much bigger barrier than when I was thinking you might be able to snag places for half what they are actually going for.In this case you definitely want to build and improve/protect your credit for going out and getting investor loans with banks.