"If one screws up, they all screw up."  

Heck, you are light years ahead of most people.Do a deal screw it...

And he knocked it out of the park.Needless to say I appreciate working with contractors that even when they screw something up they admit their mistake and make it right.

It seems to me like someone at the bank screwed up somehow. 

There is simply too much risk in screwing it up.  

Ross, I don't know about North Carolina but in Illinois you are screwed. 

Am I totally screwed?

We also don't mind doing some "boots on the ground" work to make sure you don't screwed over from a less honorable company. 

I do what I say I will do and I do it quickly, people know that if I decide to buy their property that there will be little or no snags at all, I don't screw around with inspections or anything else that makes the seller think that I'm looking for a way out, and people seem to like my straightforward, honest, approach.  

Because it was in my relative area (the other side of Atlanta), I was very confident with the numbers and knew that if the investor didn't screw up royally, it would have been hard for him to lose money.