If they are not lending on your rehab budget, then the profit is good but the ROI could be better. 100K rehab on a 300K house is a lot of capital tied up.

The larger organizations you can tie down.

I would recommend tieing up the contract w/ inspection, then go through with your contractor to see if there is any valid reasons to reduce the purchase price, then negotiate again.

Find great deals, tie them up adn wholesale them to investors.

And you've got $30,000 (after selling costs) tied up in a deal that's costing you money out of pocket.

Well cheap clothing is easy but I would never buy slacks, ties, or suits online.

I actually going to go the other way since you have a great deal of emotions tied to your property.

Before I resigned, I did think it over but could not continue to keep working a job that I was not happy at and it had absolutely no ties to what I want to do in the future.

However, the underwriter is frequently the long pole in the loan process and they let things slip past the lock period if it behooves them to do so.Given that the bank and underwriter hold the stronger position in this type of transaction do you think it is okay for a borrower to continue to shop for new money through another lender and lock jump if they get a better deal?

They are not as strong as they used to be, but they are getting stronger.