And then refinanced as my parents and i to later down the road transfer all ownership to me?

It kills the short sale since the mortgagors no longer have title, so they can't transfer it.

All of these bills have to be paid before property can be transferred and should be factored into your acquisition costs.

It states about the types of frauds, "Some schemes are particularly brazen, with thieves forging homeowners’ signatures and filing fraudulent deeds with the city to register transfers."

Would I need to go country records to see if it's been transfer?

When the contract is completed, title transfers to the buyer.Its possible this was purchased by a rehabber in August, and they have now fixed up the property and want to sell it.  

I used a Hard Money Lender 12% 3 year (Amortized at 10 yr), Personal 30k Line of Credit 8% Interest, 30k Credit Card Line 4% Interest Balance Transfer Offer w/ Credit Union no transfer fee, wrote myself a check.65k Purchase Price10k in Closing costs (Including the Hard Money Loan fees, Title costs and the escrow in taxes and insurance).

You request them to pay you, and they complete the transaction by transferring money from their bank account to their Venmo account and then to your Venmo account.

I am able to use the checks they sent to me for some transfers but others need to be circumvented to get the balance transfers at the 0% they offer.

Steven - I get that in New York city the prices are different (higher), but the analysis you sent me brings too low of a cash flow for the asked cash on investment and even if your prediction holds true it is not very liquid if I decide to transfer funds or reinvest if an opportunity presents itself.