Amanda - if this is a buying trip with Inside Track - pleeeeeease just cancel it - even if it means losing £5k ..... they are NOT acting in your best interests on any level - they made over £20m profit a couple of years back - and yet - in spite of this forum having been vociferously anti-IT for the last 4 years, only one poster has ever come here to defend them - and it turns out he worked for them - hello Niel if you are still there ! 
You can barely trust property sourcers who work in the uk - and at least if they are based here you can go knock on their door and try to get some recompense if things go wrong - but in the US ???
my crystal ball tells me that - i see shed loads of money being spent on fruitless trips to the US for you - and you will still find yourself in Janet Lays position .......
Dont think it wont happen to you .........
£5k is a huge chunk of money to lose - but it is a tiny drop in the ocean when compared to the many stories of folks - like Janet - who are now in positions of having to sell their homes because they have to raise extra capital to finance these deals on completion.
IT have settled out of court several times when punters have taken them to court, but, be warned, you need to be made of exceptionally stern stuff to take them on - all their paperwork is filled with disclaimers "property goes up and down blah blah" and they now focus their advertising as "we are an education company"
if you want to chat to me, send me an email and phone number and i would be happy to talk to you
bw
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