Recently purchased a lake house which we are considering renting and also looking to exit out of the contracting field in 7 years.

I am in contract on a multi family near St Jude.

Good evening BP, I was writing up the agreement for my future Contract Assignments and came across the possible necessity of an escrow agent.

I do have this property under contract currently and I am trying to get financing in the manner that I stated above but if there is a better idea I am all ears! 

We chose to rent through Lloyd Properties because they also have a real estate division and your apartment lease contract has a clause allowing for early termination of your apartment lease (with no fees/fines) after 45 days in the unit if you close on a property using a Lloyd Properties Real Estate Agent. 

I'm currently under contract for a house in Baltimore County. 

As on many multi-unit properties, there is no showings until under contract on this one.

The appraiser has a copy of the contract, then looks at the market to see if the sales price is a justifiable amount for the lender to lend against.

I currently have a deal on a duplex that's under contract and I've run into some appraisal issues with the current hard money lender I'm using at the moment because they're using appraisers who are not familiar with the market of the local area. 

I have a 3 family under contract and am getting quotes of around 5.25% on an investment property.seems high to me.