"It is considered an independent central bank because its decisions do not have to be ratified by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branch of government"Hmm?"

If the buyer messes up, then you should be entitled to it)3.

The biggest problems with condoa are owner apathy, bullies and control freaks running the thing, nobody paying assessments because somebody else should, or, they're going to move out anyway, so why should they pay...

Something else Let me know if more info is needed.

If you have someone else buiding your site, make sure they are doing this.3.

But, like someone else posted earlier, there was a very concious effort on the part of our elected (congress) and unelected officials (Greenspan and the heads of FM & FM) to loosen lending guidelines.

But I just want to be prepared.If I obtain a DB number, do you know if there is anything else I need to do with DB besides just obtaining the #?

Assuming its nothing buy sheetrock, paint and carpet, you're looking at $10K+ to fix that mess.

Is there something else like assessment info that might be helpful to you when determining if you want to purchase a property?

fertilegal,Great to see sombody else in Iowa who is interested in investing.