In addition, if your EMD on an REO in CA is only $250, you can bet your bottom dollar you will either be last in line, looked at under a microscope, and/or get countered for a larger EMD.

I mean, I figure Google can probably access anything and everything I have ever done on their platform with or without my permission but I felt like filling out the form would:- 1) be like raising my hand out of the possible billion plus users they have when everybody's hands were down 2) subject me to microscopic scrutiny that I would otherwise not have to go through if I just remained in the sea of a billion with my hands down like everybody else.Well, I proceeded anyway.

REO agents are under a microscope now that inventory is down and there are many investors clamoring over the same deals.2.More likely, and this happens very often, is the winning buyer got it and knocked down the price on inspection.

If it turns out the transaction winds up under the microscope of a CFPB regulator, it is the seller/mortgage originator who is at risk.Maybe there is some way to concoct that a borrower is also a mortgage originator (a “consumer” somehow taking his own loan application, verifying his own ability to pay, and receiving compensation for doing so), but I think that is a stretch.Not legal advice.

People take bankruptcy and things go under a microscope.

Especially if the cash I'm diverting will be aiding in building capital for an investment property.In addition to the above, I am making changes to my spending and have begun managing my finances under a microscope.

I'm a buy & hold guy myself, but given the economics on that deal I would have pursued bringing it fully up to code (passing the lending microscope) and selling it for quite a home run just like you did.

If you ever looks at a piece of carpet under a decent microscope, you would never install it again.

My issue was that it was all theory and things I couldn't use on a day to day basis unless I had a $500 trillion dollar microscope to show you things. 

The carpet doesn't look dirty, but you know you can't see that microscopic gunk and odor in the carpet.Pro steam clean only costs $110.