You should start at municipality,with title insurance claim, then try working with seller directly.After exhausting these I would be sitting down with an attorney and sharing the fully paper trail for closing and the follow up with each of the three parties above to file a suit to let the courts figure out exactly where liability rests.

They’re paper tigers.

Hi, Sounds good on paper, but the challenge is that you don't know what you don't know.As long as you do not have someone local that knows the business etc, so that you get a second opinion, I would remain highly skeptical.I got a similar offer for investing into RE in UKI, with 13% ROI.

There are so many threads on BP of investors in the northeast or CA who bought a random midwest property because it looked great on paper and got crushed by deferred maintenance.

Hi jermaine here, our section 8 tenants are only different on paper (our lease) we treat all our tenants the same thay do damage thay fix dam

It get's to be a tangled web on paper, but that's kind of the point. 

After a default of 90 days, I take the property back with a piece of paper. 

The paper said I had to make 12 payments.

This bag of paper is leaving me a funding gap on my buy side (1031 exchange)

There are a few pockets where the numbers look great on paper but are massive money pits in real life.