I am always straight up with sellers and give them the comps that I find, I then explain that I need to buy their house for $XX in order to make a profit.

I can explain if you need, and yes, I was doing this before it became so well known.I would demand the lender reimburse you for the appraisal, if in fact they're the cause of the 20 day holdover.

I was going to put the city name + good keyword / something that explains the process with out being extremely long.

Sometimes tax records will show the total area of construction taking in the roof overhang which may explain the difference.

If you found a deal, IMO, it would be fine if you gave them 90% if they would actually go through the deal and explain it to you.You always need to do due diligence, in any business aspect of the people you deal with.

If ya know how to buy RE, you should not have a problem buying tax liens after having the assessor explain the process there and what rights you'll have.

Once under contract, you arrange for the one and only showing explaining to the tenant that a new owner will be buying.

The amount that you will actually receive, in a partial loss, will be arrived at by multiplying the claim value by a ratio, with the ratio being: insurance amt divided by (80% of replacement value), assuming 80% is your coinsurance percentage.And guess what, the likelihood of a partial loss is many times greater than the likelihood of a "full burn down".This is how it has been explained to me.

Did the loan broker verify pay check stubs, look at tax returns, pull credit and look a t debt to income, did he explain to the buyer not to change their financial position and so on.

I'm not seeing how this arrangement does not transfer an equitable interest in a property, but maybe I don't understand enoungh of the details of this deal.Here is my blog post on BP on the Lease and CFO subject.http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/3/blog_posts/26565-a-contract-for-option-is-better-than-a-lease-optionFeel free to PM me, and calling is easier to explain things.