You might put it in your offer for the seller to pay it but it's customary for the buyer and seller to split it so that might not work.I suppose you could ask if there is any seller-financing possible with a lower down payment but in today's competitive market I'd bet that's a non-starter.

I mean, I suppose everything is for sale right?

However, I am greatly concerned.  1) I am supposed to take a long passed-due vacation in a few months, and 2) Spouse just lost their job, so with these two things in mind things in general have become quite tricky!  

His brother might end up living in the garage of the house he is supposed to be renovating making the local police and regional building very unhappy.Mike

the seller supposedly has records of the permitscontacting the building department tomarrow, hopefully they can find themany chance the county records just never got updated and the permits were all legit?

I suppose you could become a psychic, tarot card reader, or fortune teller...Short of that, it simply boils down to realizing why markets "emerge", then watching for the signs and symptoms that characterize an emerging market.  

I try to utilize the BP calculators, but I don't know where all the numbers that I'm supposed to plug in come from, therefore I don't know whether these houses that are going to go on the market are a good deal or not.

the only reason it is unwarrantable is because of the fact that due to the recent Fair Housing Act Laws, 51% of the community is supposed to be owner occupant. 

We are purchasing a 240K property in Mckinney, Texas and are supposed to close the deal tmrw August 6th 2015.

I suppose the reality is that there are stories where it works out great with a manger or management co, and there are nightmares where the owner spends tons of $$ going back and forth.