. * You could get your own inspector to give his/her blessing and see if someone offers without their own inspection.

One last idea, if you are on friendly terms with your neighbors, offer a gift card, dinner or (fill in the blank) in return for cutting up your tree and hauling it.

Cook is a great resource there. 

A handy search bar in the upper right makes it easy to find previous discussions, blogs, podcasts, and other resources.

This is a great place to learn and to connect with people so take advantage of all the great resources.

I made some resources for my out-of-state investors like a neighborhood graded map and contractor rolodex that I can share with you!  

I'm accustomed to the regulations on LTR, but not sure about MTR.Are there any resources you can recommend?

If you borrow from them early on and mess up, you won't be able to tap them as a resource when you are more experienced.

A refinance that only pays off the existing balance (plus any costs) is considered a rate and term refinance and should offer lower mortgage rates and costs due to simplicity.

Zillow's API is no longer offered (or they make it extremely hard to access these days - have had no luck finding an updated link/page for it), Redfin has broad-stroke CSVs you can download that only give 5-10 fields of info and not often at the metro area, you can't legally create a tool to crawl these websites...I'm looking for 1 (or a handful of sources) to pull together basic metrics at the metro/city level for US real estate.