When I get the text I click the link in it and it gives me a popup box reading AUTHENTICATION REQUIRED (bold, not caps), with regular font "bgrpkts.me" underneath, with two fields for username and password below that.

Cash flow from REI is on the way up for me, feeling very fortunate I don't have a regular 'day job.' 

The agent says most people pay $25-100, which is supposedly "compensation" to the seller for removing the property from the market during the inspection period.

thanks for the information,also removed the signature.

You need to have your tax returns analysed by a competent broker or banker to see what income can be used even when it's not regular wages or sales.As soon as you get out of the homepath, FHA, conventional options, the portfolio options kick in.

Hi @Ramada Evans.I had to remove your email address, we don't allow contact information.

I don't know much about them.The home is in relatively good shape but there is some definite deferred maintenance needed like a kitchen/bathroom remodel, removing the wall paper from 1978, floors/carpets, swimming pool refurbishing, etc.

Regardless of weather or not we eventually do rent it out, I am now finally ready to get back into the REI game and pursue it regularly, and build a robust portfolio of income producing properties.  

If it's not going through either of them and they are just handling it then make sure he gets in writing that what ever taxes are owed at the time of this "closing" that the amount owed for taxes will be removed from the purchase price in order to pay the taxes due.

But the key is to managing it successfully and this is where most people lose their shirtLong story short, we slowly removing non performing tenant and move in good tenants.