For a cash purchase of an REO, there's really no need for title insurance.

If you like to "hope so and wait" type of person, choose stocks.Real estate on the other hand has all the benefits.Their values are like a slow moving train that youget to inspect, repair, rent, insure, buy 7 different ways,sell 7 different ways.You can see it coming (appreciate) and going (depreciate)in time enough to get on and get off and make a profitbefore, during, after, and all around.There is no comparison - real estate is the best hands downas long as you're competent(take all costs into consideration) and prepared(have the best support team).Sure yo can kind of be 'competent' and sort of 'prepared'in buying/selling stocks, but again, it is still a "hope so and wait" 'technique'.

However, the person that is buying the property will need title insurance.

`(d) Insurance of Mortgages- The Secretary is authorized upon application of a mortgagee to make commitments to insure or to insure any eligible mortgage that has been refinanced in a manner meeting the requirements under subsection (e).

The financial projection sheet factors in P and I, insurance, taxes, management fees, HOA dues, etc.

.$400 for expenses (taxes, insurance, maint,e tc...)$400 left to pay debt and profit...so, In my pocket, I have $400 - Mortgage??

To protect myself I require a $3000 - $4000 down payment in case of default to cover expenses till I sell againThis money is not spent on anything and is placed in a high interest money market account only spent in case of emergency for that property. .I keep taxes and insurance current and add that money to their monthly payment.

Insurance seems to throw things off.

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You would be entitled to all the ordinary and necessary expenditures related to the rental, such as repairs, insurance, property taxes, maintenance, etc.