All in all I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but I think you made the right choice in my opinion. 

And I don't know if you can switch to your own tile co (and pay for the title insurance) after you picked the "use seller's closing agent" choice.

There are very nice benefits for being a Pro member and even though I haven't downloaded the ebooks I bet they are content full.Guru's are all about upselling.  

that depends on the builder... if they did a good job, that's probably the only one that will occur. talk to the neighbors and i bet they have the same cracks. ask them if it leaks.dont finish the basement. the ROI is not worth it unless you have done the numbers.

I made a big bet on Detroit, I bought 25 properties at rock bottom prices.  

I seriously doubt a judge would remove someone from title simply because they couldn't be served.If there is animosity between the two, then the best bet would be for You to find the girl friend, as a neutral third party, bearing gifts.

It's about $85 to do yourself or $400 on legalzoom.com After you have the LLC you get an EIN for the LLC and open a business checking account at your bank of choice.

Frankly I'm a bit jealous.The best way to learn a language is to just dive right and get wet; I'm willing to bet learning facets of real estate is no different.

Networking with local wholesalers at your REIA might be your best bet.

It seems like every single person who knows the comparable home sales in the area and understands that their teir house needs repairing (and I bet they would underestimate these costs) would ask at least $125,000.Is finding properties as hard as it sounds?