The county we file in specifies how the lien release should look (margin size usually).

We also use only large flat sheets and tuck the bottom sheet (that therefore can fit any size bed) so instead of full fitted/full flat/queen fitted/queen flat/king fitted/king flat we just have one sheet to deal with.  

They have a whole line of options, just depends on what size home you need.  

With the influx of tech coming to Downtown Seattle, there is not going to be an employment down tick for a decade unless M$ and Amazon go belly up.  

Will be a good size contingency coming down with @Al Williamson .

I would use a reliable 3rd party property inspector for this which will cost you about $200 - $400 based on the size property.Before doing that, definitely have a local realtor that's representing you look into it.  

I'm a father of 3 and a self employed financial advisor for 8+ years.  

What size MF are talking about.  

Denis Couture Have you considered employing a strategy, of locating properties owned by Motivated Sellers willing to consider Seller Financing?

So on the SS# thing, every time I've had someone say "I'm in the country lawfully, and my employment is above board and not under the table, but I do not have a SS# because of X," it (so far) has turned out they were not in the country lawfully and/or their income source was some unverifiable under the table thing that we cannot use for mortgage purposes.