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As you are looking for deals if you have a buyers list you are using the criteria that was given to you buy your perspective buyer.

Jon,I appreciate your perspective.

With that rate of their graveyard shift, they should be greatly motivated and you should get a qualified individual good for $20/hour normal pay here.

That is going to be a big shifting of demand from buyers to sellers of equities for the elders as the subsequent years pass. 

Does someone mind offering insight to the value of a mortgage release, in the perspective of a lender as opposed to letting a house go to foreclosure or offering it up as a short sale.Here is a link to the description I read surrounding mortgage releases.http://knowyouroptions.com/avoid-foreclosure/optio...Also, to perspective buyers, can you attempt to buy a property from original owner even when the mortgage has been released or would you have to somehow contact the bank?

If a home currently worth $140k was worth $120k at the bottom of the recession I might consider that market to be a little safer from that perspective.

They would have to defend title.Now changing perspective to the adverse possessor side, the AP would have to prove actual, open, notorious, hostile and pay taxes and satisfy their state's statutes as to improvement at prove up trial.

I live in a international luxury market and because of the strong dollar, a big run up in property values over the past four years and a ton of new construction we are going through a shift in the market where sellers still have not gotten realistic on the value of their condo.

In my market lack of AC or insulation would be a major issue, but from my perspective your climate in San Diego is heaven compared to here.