WH.....this is good, but again i am thinking on a couple things here, only wanting to make things flow as simply as possible with little to no gliches at the end of the transaction....i'll try to explain what i mean and maybe i'm speaking for many out there that are making some attempt to find success in this endeavor....in regard only to a short sale transaction the following occurs:property owner (let's call this person the "seller") allows for an individual (let's call this person the "buyer") to "purchase" the property merely for the sake of the "buyer" moving forward to deal with the loss mit people at the lender.as time moves along, this "buyer" gets written confirmation of the lender accepting the "price" offered via the customery HUD-1.now let's say for illustration purposes the "approved" price the lender has agreed to is $250000, the value of the property seems to be in the neighborhood of $350000 and the "buyer" wants to "double escrow" this bad boy for $300000 (generating a clean $50K profit)......in this illustration/scenario the question remains: "what is the cleanest, simplist" way to accomplish this?

I love Sheila Blair's simplistic solution: "Keep it at the starter rate.

Maybe I'm overly simplistic, but this question: How realistic is it to make $1mil cashflow per year by renting SFH's?

Overly simplistic view in my opinion, sorry.What can I do with cash?

But it still seems a bit simplistic to go only by the score without looking at the reasons.

In a simplistic example, if inflation is 3% and your interest rate is 5% you're only paying a REAL interest rate of 2% on your mortgage!

I watch a few different factors when gauging the swings that are likely in the apartment market.Supply, jobs, barriers to entry, and interest rates.This may sound simplistic but it works well for me. 

Simplistically, the lower the credit rating of a contracting party the greater the risk that the third party reference entity will default on its payments and this increases the cost of the credit swap.

Figured if the money is going to be spent anyway on bills, might as well take advantage of the perks.This may sound a bit more simplistic but we throw all of our change into a jar and at the end of year we roll it and cash it in at the bank.

I would like to add one to this that is a little simplistic, but without it you will not find out about a lot of the other #'s information.Due Diligence.Without it being done, you will be!