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Due Diligence Jenga: Lender Wants One More Doc (Again)

Oct 14

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Broker: Underwriting is clean; Lender: cool, send 47 more final items Me: upload rent roll, T-12, estoppels, SNDA; Phase I: about that 1998 dry cleaner... 😅 Client: We still close Friday? Appraiser: subject to 18 comps within 0.3 miles and time travel Expectation: champagne; Reality: extending rate lock while hunting a roof warranty in a storage unit 🫠

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