Getting a "cash only" purchase approved by short sale lender, but being denied the usage of hard money???

[Herm M.]

If I offered "all cash" on a short sale and got it approved... will the short sale lender have an issue with me using hard money as part of my funds? Why would they? I've closed short sales before and haven't had this issue... but never with BofA.

So basically the short sale is approved... and I tell the escrow officer that my hard money lender wants an estimated HUD. She says "lender?" and then that leads her to explain to me that the short sale lender is going to have to "approve any changes."

Does this make sense? The short sale lender needs to eventually approve the final HUD... that's the one that matters. So why can't we proceed to fund with hard money, wire the funds to the short sale lender... and see if they approve the final HUD? What are they going to do... return the wire because we decided to use hard money, even though it doesn't change their net? What are the chances that they do that?

Is this a case of a brainwashed escrow agent? Or does she have a valid point?

I understand that technically a "cash offer" shouldn't involve a loan... but hard money is generally considered the same as cash in the sense that there aren't contingencies involved...

Does anyone think that if we proceed to fund the loan and wire the net funds that the short sale lender is expecting... they'll reject the funds/HUD because we decided to use hard money?