He sold his personal finance blogging site www.bargaineering.com for a cool $3 million dollars and launched a new personal finance site www.wallethacks.com.

You have to have reserve funds for that emergency water heater, HVAC or roof problem that pops up the day after you buy/lease option the property.

They asked for a new roof, furnace be cleaned and certified, water heater repaired, new basement window, blah blah blah.

If you have a master-meter, you own the water/sewer lines and will have periodic maintenance.  

If they look at what you've provided, they're still obligated to make up their own mind, but, it doesn't hurt to lead the horse to water.. 

Silicon Valley has been a hotbed...and will continue to be...until tech looses some of its secondary funding from outside the U.S. that will incur a cooling period.  

Stumbling upon BiggerPockets when I was about 18 felt like trying to drink water from a fire hydrant of real estate information!

Pay for a Prelim Title Report - - this is what the bank and title company would be looking at.If a few hundred dollars keeps you dry on the docks, it's better than falling into the water filled with sharks.

I found this cool website for Michigan, I thought I would share it in case anyone else needs it.

Cool idea!