The sales rep tells me that it could be the house framing is warped in that area, that they can only follow the existing contours of the wood framing, and that it won't effect the ability of the roof to keep the house dry.Should I believe this?

Sometimes you'll hear appraisers refer to this as 'effective age' as in 'the effective age of the 40 year old house is substantially less than the 30 yr. old house due to substantial renovation'.

Either he does it and you close when it's completed, (best way) or you'll get a tenant owing past rents (that you need assigned in your transaction) before you have a claim to start on.

In a simple transaction when you buy a property with a mortgage the existing mortgage gets paid off.

In reality, agents usually give a client a choice but then they will add comments how well someone has done in past transactions and the relationship the have, the client usually goes with the agent's selection.

I have learned that getting priority usually does require a relationship and that relationship is usually based on closing transactions.

So really, and ROI or CoC calculation that includes appreciation is just a guess until the transaction is finalized.

THey take advantage.Do some research on properties around yours and maybe even yours and you will find many examples of properties losing the majority of their value from 1 transaction to the next.

There is a terribly high wash-out rate in the biz, and there are a BUNCH of Realtors who do very few (if any) transactions in a year.Anyway, you WILL be doing transactions won't you?

For one thing those are not active markets which means much more transactional cost getting in and out.