They just sent me another drawn out text about how they are too busy to go to the bank or the post office to get the money to me and my only option is to come pick it up from them in that one hour window.  

A natural person, a corporation through its officers, a partnership through its partners or a limited liability company through its members or managers that deals in selling, exchanging, purchasing, renting, leasing, managing or pledging the person's or entity's own property, including cemetery property and membership camping contracts, and that does not receive special compensation for a sales transaction or does not receive special compensation or other consideration including property management fees or consulting fees for any property management services performed, if the majority of an officer's, partner's, member's or manager's activities do not involve the acts of a real estate broker, cemetery broker or membership camping broker as defined in section 32-2101.Turns out my colleague got bad information from a local lawyer.

If the deal is for $140k all cash (and you get $40k right back), you're probably OK. but any half-wit loan officer the tenant uses will see right through what you did, which is to artificially bump up the market history of the property to influence the appraisal and mortgage size the tenant is applying for.

This sparked a conversation in the office about how owning a rental property is an excessive burden and there is no money to be made in real estate.

A Wall Map for your office with zip copdes is great too.

Also larger brokerages with multiple offices will likely have many seasoned Brokers willing to have you help out.

My name is Devin Wilkins, I'm an Architect in D.C. working primarily on commercial office buildings.

Hi Ralph, I would look online at your county recorders website and see if you can get them online, if not, then I would go to your to their office physically and request the information.

I have been with KW all my career, but with 4 different offices.  

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