Good question - I've never been to this city or met the seller in-person, so it's an interesting story!

Hi Dave,Thanks for sharing details of your first deal!

From my own experience, I know that letting personal biases or bad feelings about the seller or property affect my decision-making can cause me to miss out on chances.My first mistake was being too set in my ways and not being able to think outside the box.

If you don't have such a person, you can go to a third party service like VerifyInvestor.com and pay a fee for them to review your financials and generate the letter (from an attorney).

It sucks that you reside in a tax hungry state but owning property in your personal name is crazy.

The person you recommended is the person that scammed me - he took $500 and has done nothing and refused to take my calls and emails - if you know him I would appreciate if you could get my money back.Would appreciate if anyone else has recommendations and also insight on the fines.

I will continue to share this so no one else gets scammed and left in debt with no deal closings. 

All travel nurses, in my personal experience, seem to have a dog and be a little bit crazy...

(The arrangement was that they pay me for electricity because they share electric with other unit.) and they started to complain about roof leak which caused them hardship.

As an investor I personally have two in Colorado.