There will be a prolonged valley before we see any real recovery due to the aging housing supply that the market will have to absorb.Therefore prices will remain about what they are now (hopefully we are at or near bottom).

Before the price drop, the house had sat for a prolonged period of time at the previous price...therefore HUD had likely discounted their minimum net.

After three months of eviction process (which they prolonged for as long as possible), we kicked them out.After 3 years of owner where on paper the rent justified the price but with extraneous costs mounting and rotating tenants, I finally realized I made a huge mistake.

We have been in a prolonged period of super low rates,  but historically 7% is not bad. 

The day after FDR got sworn in the world went to hell.Go get: FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

However, there has been the odd one here and there where the borrower files BK the day of or day before, which then prolongs the hold period and ties up your capital much longer than anticipated. 

I listen to the podcasts on the standard BP app and it often shuts down and restarts after not engaging with the app for prolonged period of time.

Offering money is only going to prolong the process. 

We will people with foreclosures that went a short period of time (6 - 9 months) if they have a clean credit report for the past 2 years.We will never take tenants with any evictions or if they ever forced a prolonged foreclosure as 1) They have tasted what it is like to live rent/mortgage free and they just might like the taste of that  2) They probably know all of the loopholes and stall tactics in the book as well as every obscure right they have.Pass on them.

I'm a firm believer, if something isn't working out, why prolong it?