I am considering expanding my search some to Gastonia, Concord, Kannapolis etc.  

That's true Dave often in my MLS searches the people with the lowest loan to values or no mortgage at all are most often landlords.

We will be there at the beginning of July to do some searching.

Have a title search to find other liens, check your local property tax collector about property taxes.

I tried googling, but couldn't get the right search for what I was looking for.

This will send us notifications that you replied, otherwise we would need to search to find this conversation again.

Here's one that I just found with a quick search: http://www.mymassmortgage.org/homebuyer-course-cal...FULL DISCLOSURE: I have no relationship of any kind with the company offering this course.

I would expect NC closing costs for a median priced property to run less than $2000 for the attorney fee, doc preparation fees, title search, title insurance, prorated property taxes and recording fees. 

When I searched " NRIA investigations on google this site and thread are #1.

I stopped listening to that book to search for the "Bare bones, I'm a dummy, what the he** are they talking about" version of how to begin to learn about REI.