I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong but maybe making it clear what kind of expectations you have to the agent can save a lot of time and prevent future resentment.

Right now, I'm little...I simply hope to glean enough information off the experts to prevents a major mishap that would derail my growth.

We experienced some technical difficulties yesterday, June 14th, and we are working diligently to investigate the root cause to prevent further occurrences.

Between what the selling agent is required to disclose and what the mortgage company will require, what are some examples of things that can still happen that would have been prevented by having a buyer's agent?

What I am wondering is, would it be possible with about 10k, and preapproval to arrange with a property that is in foreclosure with a scheduled auction, to get in touch with the owners, and arrange a short sale to prevent competition at an auction, mind you this is not for a multifamily but for a property with built in equity that could immediately be sold, or repaired and sold for substantial equity or should I stick to the more refined route of the multifamily until I have more liquidity to consider other ventures, is all this too vague with out more information.

Is there anything I can do to prevent loosing the house?

Having a drainage system (french drain / sump pump) to prevent water from sitting on the glued down planks might be a good idea.

So far, I've been using either cash or conventional mortgages for the purchases, but I'm slowly running out of money and most traditional banks I've dealt with have rules/overlays that prevent them from doing new loans when you already have four in place.All of my present rentals are SF houses, but I'm considering getting into multi-family (i.e. small apartment complex).

Regulations are like a lock on a door, they simply keep honest people more honest when there is an oppotunity, they don't prevent bad people from being bad.

And, if they ask for another extension, offer them another week or two if they put the entire downpayment (20% of the purchase price) up as additional non-refundable earnest money.While you didn't ask, here are 10 things you can do differently in the future to prevent this (this was going to be a blog post, but this seemed as good a place as any to post it):1.