The GC will be on the hook for the work, so he'll have to be comfortable that you're doing everything correctly and he'll probably want to verify the work before it's inspected, but that would be an inexpensive solution to your situation.

The only thing a seller and a listing agent want to know is that you can and will follow through, and they should be doing everything they can to verify that you have the funds.

The satisfied mortgages mean nothing of you can't verify there are no additional mortgages/liens.As for the discrepancies in the listings, you may not be aware, but they removed the requirement for all real estate agents to first be rocket scientists, so mistakes and misinformation are to be expected.

Confirm that the businesses or real estate that is being loaned on has legitimacy by using third party methods to verify.

Trust and verify.

While over the last couple of years a fair amount of attention has been paid to verify the parties involved in the chain of assignments, more recently courts have relaxed a bit on these matters paying more attention to possession.  

", I would agree if all Portals were diligent in verifying and documenting Accredited Investor status and/or minimum investments were set high enough to weed out unsophisticated investors - those that aren't capable of adequately doing their own due diligence.  

Otherwise, any action to verify the work will be seen as "sneaking around" and only lead to negative opinions. 

Then look up the documents in public record to verify this company is legit.

This will help you to verify if they actually funded it or are lying.3.