If so, I bet you can probably get a mortgage broker or title company to draw up the docs and manage the process for a couple hundred bucks.Just a guess that this is the issue...

If you're going to spend $1000 for a laminate floor and you can do engineered or solid for a few hundred more, it might be worth it.

It is usually between fifty and one hundred percent of the gross first month's rent and often times your property manager will split that fee with the cooperating broker.

Homepath, as I understand, has "points" relative to a standard loan, but those can be built into a higher rate, so I think that is where you'll see a difference.Also, Homepath doesn't require an appraisal, which saves a few hundred, and no PMI (mortgage insurance requried normally when down payment is less than 20%), so net-net I agree it's a good product.

They will take more than a few clunkers to get such a good price.There is no way that they can perform any due diligence on multi hundreds of millions in properties.My $0.02

James - I've been watching this nonsense for years . . . despite the claim by hundreds to thousands of people that they are doing business in the space, none so far has provided me with an ounce of proof.

BP.com and many books make RE investing seem easy, but for every success there and hundreds of deals that lose money.

I didnt do this and it could have shaved a few hundred off my expenses.

Again, most contractors are unlicensed (in my state, you only need to be licensed in certain specialties, otherwise it's perfectly legal to be unlicensed)...so, are the hundreds of thousands of unlicensed (but legal) contractors in this country breaking the law every time they they give a bid?

Matt, you really must go spend a few hundred dollars and speak with a knowledgeable attorney.Lawyer's awarded property next doorBoulder Couple Defends Adverse Possession ClaimAs I understand this, the people making the claim need to have used the property without challenge for 20 years.