To my surprise, they were outside so I requested a conversation with them outside about why they did not pay rent.

Seems like a lien on the property that big can't be a surprise.

But I would think a homeowner would be far less likely to want to talk to anybody about losing their house during the holidays.If you're referring to banks and the mls stuff, my advice would be to go look at houses.You'd be surprised how some banks simply make the decision that the house needs to get off the books by the end of the year.

You might be surprised how many are from that area.

You might be surprised!!!

If you write this down on your contract along with your expectations, there should be fewer surprises during the project as far as payment expectations.https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/where-we-live...another discussion about contractor payments:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/67/topics/138...

Account Closed, I would be quite surprised if any rules change between 1-99 and 100+.

You want to have their policy so you are not surprised when the first one is waived, but can be upset when the fifth one has been.55.

I've been watching the trends for things like Days on Market for a while now so this didn't exactly come as a surprise, and personally I don't see it changing my investment strategy as a buy-and-hold investor.  

I brought up the service to him briefly and he hadn't heard of them before either but didn't seemed to surprised at the price of the service.