Bare in mind this is not always the case, it depends on the mortgage company and their internal procedures but normally with a large fire and a lot of damage that is the way it is done.

I was talking to another intern from the North Carolina area and we were just talking real estate.

Typically the average student might become an intern once during their Junior or Senior year (and majority of internships require you to be a Junior or Senior).

I interned for HfH down in Eugene so I always like to give them a plug.

NACHA is the organization that manages the development, administration, and governance of the ACH Network, the backbone for the electronic movement of money and data in the United States and is funded by the financial institutions it governs.

Put your property into an calculator that figures Internal Rate of Return.  

Take your $60k and put it into an index fund until you find a better deal.  6% return for taking on both real estate AND international fx risk? 

Figure out some electronic payment scheme. 

As others have stated, I was continually asked for the same documents multiple times and there is an extreme lack of communication internally.

Even then, since this was the internal wall/ceiling of our units, they'd more than likely keep their nose out of it.