It's been smooth except for importing issues with one smaller credit union that now represents about 80% of my banking.

This can help your transaction run more smoothly if everyone on your team (lender, agent, attorney, inspector) have worked together on 100 transactions. 

It's a smooth surface (made to varying heights) that you lay before these thin resilient flooring styles that was most likely laid to raise that level of flooring up to the same height as your living room floor... you'll probably have better luck removing that layer with the linoleum intact on top. 

Whenever you are buying a property out of state you should do a few things to ensure it's as smooth as possible.

And the best part about it was that our closing was smooth sailing, partly due to this little deal we made on the basement!

Thanks,Devon I did that type of thing on a couple of properties and it went fairly smoothly.

No harm comes as long as everything is running smoothly.

However, these are small investments and we're only talking about $300-$400 per door in profit if things are smooth. 

You could try to roller brush them with a small roller (ultra smooth), but you would have to be careful of maintaining perfection along the grooved edges.

I hope things go more smoothly from here for you.