So I can call customer service and in 3 minutes get a complete verbal date down on the phone.. it helps in real time when your working foreclosure stuff.Also any agent can call customer service and get copy of last recorded deed the tax info zoning etc.. sent over in a matter of minutes... out east when its kind of backwards form what I have experienced were you open an order and they don't order title to the end as you have to actually pay an abstractor to go to the courthouse I guess and physically pull data... so this leads to title issues at the end of the transaction were out here we have title within as I said 72 hours max of opening the order so you know up front if you have an issue and you have the whole contract period to work on it if need be.

It was a difficult drawn out negotiation over a 4 week period.

I was almost done with my inspection period and had no other prospects so I said fine well pay the first set of closing cost.

Period.

I am  currently working part time sub contracting cable t.v. splicing.Between 1998 and 2007 I did four small real estate deals and managed to make a profit on each deal, During that period I had some money, great credit and a very good working relationship with a local bank.

Seasoning period is different for each lender most will require 6 months to consider new appraised price instead of purchase price.

I can envision a service which offers those screenings reports for a a one time fee and assigns the tenant an access code which can be used by several different landlords over a set period of time (say 90 days), or for a certain number of updated inquiries.  

To clarify: The time I attempted to view the property and speak to the occupant was during the 10 day inspection period while the home was under contract.  

Make an offer, go visit the property when the offer is accepted during the inspection period.  

Unless things are different in different parts of the country but I don't think so... if you read the fine print of the warranty of tub reglazers there will be a paragraph about not setting anything on the reglazed bathtub ever again, meaning, no soap, no shampoo bottles etc... this is a pretty good indication of the resilience of the process, they are basically worried about anything on the surface for a long period of time causing moisture issues and bubbling the 'reglaze'.