Country then also folded and Bank of america consumed all of their debt.

If the trainings are well organized with some sort of support, then it easier to use them because I will know exactly where to look for information.I have done short sales in the past and stopped for little bit because it was time consuming and also the banks had so many rules of 30-60-90 day hold period.

I look at what is my biggest expenses and routinely spend time trying to figure out a way to save without sacrificing too much of my time or the tenants.I self manage all my properties and place all tenants.

In my area we do simultaneous closings routinely.

You can look up the street interest rates for the year it closed in historical interest rates, I imagine, I just know about what rates were in my area for a long period....Rich makes a good point that it doesn't matter, if it's too time consuming, just make the offer, if you can figure it out quickly, it will tell you in a ball park what they might take.

It's not the process just how time consuming it is when starting from scratch.

It's definitely more time consuming but I actually get applications and (more importantly?)

So more rental units are entering the market, but less consumers are chasing them.

I am interested in hearing some feedback and knowing how many investor agents focus more on working with consumers as opposed to investors and how it has helped their business and their knowledge of real estate.

While it certainly is a large time consuming process, in reality, the bank approval is just one more step to generating clear title so the transaction can be closed.