My short story: I moved to Houston (Galleria Area) in the beginning of 2012 but really only been around 50% of the time for the first year (going back and forth to Denver for work) and now moving to League City in a few days.

The contract just became assignable. http://www.ncrealtors.org/uploads/sample-2-T.pdfDouble closings happen as well.

I've been a long time lurker and my new year's resolution was to start posting on BP and actively participating in the discussion.By way of an introduction, while new here on BP I've been an investor since 2009, and since then I've had the change my real estate strategies three times including: short sale buy/sell to short sale rehab to buying directly from sellers and rehabbing and finally wholesaling from sellers.

Long story short, once the 3 Day Pay or Quit Notice was served, the full amount of the rent and late fees were in the bank the next day.

I'm speaking strictly for the state of Colorado, you have to be denied coverage by 3 admitted carriers before you can go the E&S (non-admitted) route, and typically E&S policies are more expensive, but perhaps you could get a short term policy that would cover you until you can get the roof fixed, and then go back to your prior carrier...if you still wanted to do business with them.

I recently sold my house in a short sale through the HAFA program.

If you don't have good egress and have to get it water proof (my basement takes on water every year, we just have our storage boxes on short stilts, as it was way too expensive to fix the problem), it's probably not worth the effort to finish the basement.For rental comps, you could start monitoring Craigslist in the areas you like weekly and putting the data in Excel so that you have higher quality comp data than what is on Craigslist right now.

Option A would be because you likely only got a short term loan with a higher cost of financing since it was un-lendable in its original condition.

@Leonard Bradley - welcome to BP, I'm pretty new to this site as well but in the short time here I've found enormous amounts of great info.

I believe they are going to expand the law shortly for Baltimore so that all homes built before 1978 will need to be tested for lead paint.