Read my earlier post - the federal law that was enacted is what I have extracted there.

You want to get the ANSWERS to 29 questions, but you don't want to ASK 29 questions - which means you want to get the seller to tell you about the property and extract the answers to your questions from their explanation.

Now, if there is some upside that you are sure you can extract from the deal, then maybe its worth it.

I've been working as a contractor for 20 years, yes activated charcoal works to remove any odor and what works better is adding vanilla extract to the paint prior to painting.

I see this happen with 3rd party short sale negotiators all the time when they tried to "extract a fee" on the HUD, then it didn't work, then they start trying to squeeze the buyer, agents, etc.

It seems like a pretty clear gambit by the seller to extract more money from a buyer who committed and was driving to his property.

Remember in order for the borrower payment to remain the same at $570, in line with the original terms of the note, the author said they increased time so they would have also had to have increased the rate on the note (that is through my extraction not the author's direct statement).

That may be the market for the area, but its hard to extract any profit when they're that low.

They deserve it if they manually went through each file and extracted addresses

As long as you don't put up too much option/earnest money, give yourself the proper contingencies to extract yourself from the contract and are upfront with the seller, there's no reason you can't give it a try and see what happens.