If you feel that the insurance company isn't giving you a fair estimate, you should contact your insurance agent first as they are your advocate for something that may fall under a gray area. 

One way that sometimes works is to look for people in that community (could be a realtor, banker, business owner, etc.) who can give you referrals to an attorney  they've had fair dealings with. 

If you do this definitely find out how to "cloud" the title, and get a lien so that they can't just back out on you.If you are going to make improvements while on an option, see if you can negotiate those expenses into a reduced price for the house.

Again - everything is fair, you're not short-changed.

Age discrimination, a federal fair housing violation. 

Hello Mike,I believe the majority of foreclosures are still non-judicial, but we have our fair share of judicial foreclosures as well.

Planning to look at some properties with my agent Friday morning and then have my afternoon fairly free.

Most banks have mortgage minimums so it basically reduced the buyer-pool to cash-buyer-investors.

We had one tenant who had "her mom's dog" for a weekend to dog sit and we settled on charging her a reduced Fee ($100) plus $30/mo to even have the right to have her mom's dog there occasionally (which turned out to be 1-2 days/month)  We also had her sign an additional pet addendum which is very strong about what can and can't be done (and when we can enter the apartment or call animal control)Portion of our lease:If an unauthorized pet is found on the premises a fee of $500 is due immediately for having an non-authorized animal on the premise at the time of occurrence or at landlords discretion.

My name in Evan Renaud and fairly new to bigger pockets forum after months of podcasts and books.