They said $5-$7 a square foot roughly. 

@Matt Katsaris rest assured, this is normal practice.There was a lawsuit several years back against a title company that had an employee steal the escrow money.  

Keep one foot going forward at a time kind of thing. 

@Russ Scheider@Alex Franks   look forward to catching up I will be at my normal hotel.

Situation normal to start.  

Where I live, you have to have some decent footings for anything that has any kind of cover.  

If not, how is payment normally made?

When you buy an REO you are getting the property at a discount and as such, you also are expected and in some cases required to take on additional expenses that you normally would not have to. 

I was pulling together 1098s so I can do 2015 taxes (normally I like to procrastinate, but this year I'm trying to refi some things so I'm motivated), and I noticed I got an escrow bill for nearly a thousand bucks.What happened was my insurance on a rental got canceled because the mortgage company had a paperwork screwup and didn't send in the payment in time (even though they had the money in escrow specifically for that).

Community managers have:Limited authority;Often opposing goals (or at least they often think so;a propensity for changing jobs leaving you with new managers.Community managers normally cannot enter into joint relationships that offers additional real money benefits to the Lonnie Dealer.