If you pay all those plus a premium, you should be on the safe side and less resistance, MAYBE it will not ruin your chances of hiring them again.

I think your first deal needs to be a good one, it needs to be a safe bet, but it does not have to be a great deal.

My family safely evacuated, but our personal home still has 6-8 feet of water in it.

not sure if I'm understanding the point of this thread If the point is there's very few places to live where you can work a regular job and own a  house I would completely disagreeOff the top my head I could Name 30 towns in upstate New York where A couple could work blue-collar jobs and Easily afford a home and live in a perfectly safe happy friendly community 

Lead Safe certification:   we write in CT, MA, RI, NY, ... and the majority of our companies are requiring a lead safe certification. 

Either way it is important they keep the original Note in a safe place.A mortgage holder reports interest at the end of the year using IRS Form 1098. 

Everyone has the right to live in a safe, healthy, and affordable home.

Google small taxpayer safe harbor nolo...because I believe you can now as of 2014, deduct improvements in the year done.

The goal was to get to roughly $1.5M and then retire, since all of the math says that we could safely withdraw (the SWR) 4% of our investment pot every year ($60k a year) and be able to sustain that indefinitely. 

I choose to live a very frugal lifestyle, in what I consider a middle class neighborhood, but very safe low crime neighborhood.