I am willing to speak with Mr Piazza to see if we can renegotiate a settlement, but Mr Reynal is on his own.Ron Blum, PrincipalAtlas

If they see the settlement statement and feel as though they are getting screwed or were mislead by the wholesaler, they may try to back out of the deal or do something nasty to sabotage the sale. 

I do real estate on the side and I don’t think I would have been able to do that without the frame-work and I have in place thanks to Palak and Niti and Open Spaces.They were so generous with their contacts and resources - I connected with many people from their network and am working with them!

Licensed  agents are reaching out hoping to get involved with investors or invest themselves , more and more states are cracking down on the legalities of the wholesaling framework,there is a general disgust and distrust of wholesalers as a whole .

Account Closed, Your basis would be your purchase price plus some of the expenses from your closing statements.Your basis includes the settlement fees, closing costs for buying property, improvements: see below. 1) if any improvements were done to the house, add that. 2) The following items are some of the settlement fees or closing costs you can include in the basis of your property.

There is no need for the average investor to do a title search themselves or prior to a settlement.

But I can tell you with out first duplex, we had a legal settlement of $5,000 with in my opinion an incompetent real estate agent, we had 2 tenants move out, we had the sale of our old property fall thru a day before closing because the buyers financing fell thru. 

It's a great discussion on cycles and helps develop a framework in which you can develop strategies about how to move forward based upon what you are seeing in the market.

the 20% down no appreciation rental real estate purchases of the last few years are already underwater if market just drops 10% from what they paid for them the other 10% will be eaten up in settlement charges.. so there goes the investors downpayments..

@Anthony Dooley wrongful death cases often end with multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements.