What I did was draw over the scratch with the marker, then immediately wipe it with a paper towel before it dried.

I have replaced all of the windows in the house and have increased the window size at the front of the house.Old windows with dry wall cut back to accept the new window. 

Nothing more permanent than something done temporary .Thats all a contractor would have done in the rain until it was dry enough to find the leak and do the repair .

Bandit signs are cheap but more or less illegal and depending on your area would get taken down quickly.Doing a DRY double closing is rare, but there are title companies that do them, but I would call this a "grey area" so I'm sure they won't advertise that they do.

My banker makes it sound pretty cut and dried as long as I dont default ;-).Dan Dietz

And I could get that done in one trip instead of having to come back a second day to sand because I had to wait for teh spackle to dry.

Tenant organizations teach tenants how to "bleed the landlord dry" techniques.

I am coming off of an 18-month dry spell and just closed 1 deal and have 5 more under contract.

No need to get over leveraged with top of the market prices and get hung out to dry in a down turn.

The key with rubber roofs is not to let them dry rot.