I realize that I need to get some documents from my GC and have him sign some contracts before we start officially working together but want to make sure I'm not forgetting anything that might put me in a bad situation. 

I had a point system that I documented to help make things less subjective and more defendable for discrimination claims.Agree that credit score or an approximation isn't the full picture. 

I believe the best app to document is REPStracker.

I always add things if this nature under the additional clauses section of the lease.

Unless this is in a market with extremely high potential appreciation I think there are probably much better ways to spend $300k.

When our attorney ran a final check before closing we found out that he was IN bankruptcy.  

This does seem reasonable to me and I am currently working on a refinance myself with Camden National Bank.I think a big part of this is that you are only taking out an LTV of 60% which is favorable from the bank's perspective.

This documentation will include lender instructions that specify the loan seniority.

Here's what I would do (and in this order):1.

It took us a couple of weeks but we slowly increased their rankings unit they were on page 1 (based on search parameters of course) and they got a 10 day booking soon thereafter.We use Price Labs to check out the date of the last booking.