Make sure everything is straight and take charge.Keep us posted. 

Tell him you want to pay him and need to know how much it is or bust out the old piece of paper that you wrote the quote he gave you and your own receipt and pay him and have him sign off.If he has been straight up with you from the beginning, normally zebras don't change their stripes.  

I've had appraisals turned down for habitability because the property doesn't have a refrigerator or a stove and was considered not habitable.Kind of a toss up when it comes to giving you a straight answerStephanie

The bank was asking over market value - it looked like the pulled it straight from Zillow.

I don't think you'd be able to buy the property straight from the county before it hits auction...

So, if you take a HELOC out and then do a straight rate-term refinance the new lender will pay off the HELOC and the first mortgage without having to do a cash out refinance.

Also if anyone has any insight if it’s a good idea to go straight to sellers agent with no representation.

For example, an innocent 3 yo flushed baby wipes down the toilet at one of my properties sometime prior to the family leaving for the weekend.

One was being shut down for covid for 60 days straight.

Best I can hope for now is to warn other landlords, the only way I can do this is by getting a judgement and then applying for debt collection (again not thinking i'd get any money back) or skipping judgement and going straight to debt collectors.