When you find a few notes you are interested in possibly buying order an O&E report to see what outstanding liens are against the property and request a pay history before paying.

Hi @Skylar Dejesus,This post is old but I am also looking to start investing in E.

@Dave Salcido the creative juices are flowing now!

Potato potato(e)...

That kind of activity may not be allowed in the brokerages IC agreement with you and also their E & O policy might not cover it.So you have to talk with a brokerage ahead of time and see if they are okay with it or not.An investor who is a broker might be more apt to work with you because if they lose the brokerage then likely they already own other investment properties versus a regular brokerage where transacting is the lifeblood of their business.New agents often tend to be rogue agents with self interest above the brokerages at any costs.

Stuart E.

I mistakenly signed up for a 'free' account to get e-mail updates from this guy.  

If you have been accounting for this improperly that indeed will need to be cleaned up since it sounds like you may have not given proper credit to the Buyer/Borrower's payment to principal.Stop making this about a regulation that you do not really understand and make it more about what you are doing and how it was actually setup.  

@Randy E. some investors told me not to go into much details.

I will say this..most agents have no clue how to structure it properly.