@Stacey Olson To  attempt to advise you, I need to know what your plans are for this house.  

No attempt at price fixing, just an observation:)  The difference is in how you address it with your client.

This is the step which will tell you if you need to pay down your student loan/car loan first, before attempting to buy the kind of real estate that you want...Incomes on one side (include your job - monthly gross, 50% of the rents you would expect to get from the other units) and one the other side, your debts (monthly car payment, monthly student loan, and an estimated monthly mortgage payment ) - if your ratio of debt to income is less than ~42-44% then you won't have to pay your loans off first to start investing.  

In these areas where the competition is fierce, properties rapidly appreciate, and selling for top dollar this is common.The question was asking for solutions and that's what I have attempted to offer here besides "offer more $ and if you loose you loose", pretty sure he already knows that thus he posted this question looking for ideas.Isaac: As I stated before adding $125 to your offers on properties (OF ALL ORIGIN) will help you land more deals period.

If so, try to collect.But before assuming that this mortgage is still in effect, I would attempt to see if it actually should be satisfied, especially if you say a warranty deed was issued.  

It would be very hard to prove someone else is living there and I wouldn't attempt to use that as a reason to evict.

I've been attempting to use the group NACA; however, it is becoming increasingly frustrating because they keep push back my approval date.

While they certainly won't help you conduct due diligence on a deal or sponsor, they do have seem to have a couple protocols in place in an attempt to help their clients avoid outright fraud.

cb=1As to the lien holders being notified, the courts will have the "proof" provided by the TCB when there is no challenge from any lien holders, so unless the TCB totally ignored attempts at notice, the liens should get wiped.

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