Some credit providers charge $50, some charge $200 and you don't have control over this unfortunately.Title fees: since you are purchasing, you probably didn't choose the title company, however this can be negotiated when you submit your offer.

Multiple, billion dollar companies are investing investing heavy in our area, such as Intel, Google, and Amazon.

I can provide a lot of advice as I've done several LLCs for our companies and I'm right down the road in Tampa.

I've never had an appraiser who seemed bothered by the fact that stuck around during the walk-through (most of them are talkers and like the company) and never had an appraiser who didn't want my extra information (again, most of them were very appreciative of anything I had).

However, this is a larger banking company and I have heard it can be better to have a HELOC with a smaller, local bank.Option 2: interest rate is prime +0 with a max of 25%.

I subtract that from my offer and run my numbers as:Rent (estimates from the MLS on closed rentals in the last 3-6 months; we have access).Insurance (we go to an independent broker; who happens to work for my company, so we bid everything out to dozens of insurance companies for some estimates)Taxes (we challenge them after a year of owning)Water/common chargesWe do not add PM fees as we manage all of our properties ourselves. 

Multiple, billion dollar companies are investing investing heavy in our area, such as Intel, Google, and Amazon.

Is the best way to do it to get a job under a company (whatever field) and start house hacking/saving money to invest in my first property?

But the seller simply goes to a different title company and closes with them and leaves your contract and EM setting at the original title company. and after some months that title company will want some resolution to the dead file and if nothing is done they will inter plead the EM to the court for disposition.

You just need to shop around for the professional companies with multiple crews and an office.