The title company is telling me that a need a Cancellation Agreement, signed by both parties.

I believe the deal is on thin ice as it is, and although I sitll have 15 days of option period left, I'd like to hear others' experience before bringing in a third party and/or going back to the seller with a potentially revised offer.For what it's worth, the house feels level, and if the laminate hadn't been removed, would not have suspected a slab crack.Thanks,Mike

But this is a hands on deal, you can't be passive.The payoff is that after a few years you have fixed all the problems and will have a nice performer for low value plus a lot of equity.All the best deals I have ever seen involve trusts, divorces, or inheritance situations where the parties that acquired the property didn't know what they were doing or devolved to the lowest common denominator.

Is there a way to assign a contract without the other party knowing your fee?

When I bring an interested party in commercial to the listing broker or an off market seller your credibility is everything.

The application of the Option Money will be more fully defined in the Option to Purchase Agreement. party assignee, with the balance."

The only way to truly search an MLS is to become a member of the MLS, and to do that, you'd need to get your real estate license or become an affiliate member by being, for example, an appraiser.No third-party listing site has every home in the MLS, and the MLS doesn't have every home for sale in the market (they exclude FSBOs, for the most part, and are often missing new construction homes.

When I get further along in the purchasing part, I could use some good referrals for local contractors and other services needed.

Then I still go through them one at a time in order of receipt and refund the fees back to the ones I never got to.Regarding the rejection notice, I use a third party screening company that uses a point system and offers a rejection letter to be used if rejected.

The only documentation is the lease, which was signed by both parties and has the larger amount.