If you are the only owner then I would save the money and just follow the steps to register with the SCC and get you federal tax ID number.

Try DFCU - Dearborn Federal Credit Union They also give 1% cash back on your total mortgage amount and have very competitive rates

I found out the owner was some kind of bank/government financing agency, and that the house was a REO.

Where we do survey always is when I was in the Timber business.. we always ran cut lines.. the old method was to use BLAZE's .. but you cut a tree that's not yours and its triple stumpage and if its federal timber its a federal bust... many a logger have seen jail time for stealing FED timber.

They didn't even notify me, they just closed it and never told me.I had my Solo 401k at Wells Fargo until Jan 2016, then I moved it to Navy Federal Credit Union.

Even the local government in Seattle built a village of tiny homes to combat homelessness.

Yeah, but it isn't going to be at the advertised government subsidized interest rate.

Inflation seems to be cooked into the books by our government from the amount of spending that goes on.

And its financial fraud, which is a federal offence. 

There is a sales tax, but the brunt of paying for the government comes on the shoulders of Texas property owners.If it's your own personal home, you're protected from assessed increases of more than 10%.