You can add pressure by contacting the real estate commission or whatever the governing body is.

Shop around to find the best lender that suits your needs. 

Shopping banks Monday to ask around and do my HW.I don’t have enough funds to finance the investment upfront.

If you want to go with a new appliance, shop for it online and arrange for delivery of the new and haul away of the old.

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Check with a couple local banks and have a broker shop your deal to their network.

After about 6 months of education and a lot of shopping around, my plan is to buy a property for the first time this year.

To give you some examples, they freely change balances on my accounts and ignore to correct them - even with the support of the BoD.

Look for family-oriented areas, (i.e. great schools, shopping, gyms, etc.)

However less than a month later the tenant is asking me if he can hire a electrician to install a new additional 220 outlet so that he can install a coffee bean roaster (he wants to open up his own coffee shop in a few years and is trying to build up some capital by selling his own roasted beans).