From the research I have done, you do in fact need to have permanent residency or citizenship to qualify for an FHA loan, but I have scheduled a call tomorrow with a lender who may be able to facilitate loans for DACA recipients.

As Joe mentioned you could go to the public, one big issue in most states (actually all, but some try to work loopholes) is facilitating sales without a license.

Yeah I'm sure Hitler was giving aid to the Austrian Nazi Party to facilitate the takeover.

That said, you want the most experienced negotiator/facilitator to be handling the short sale (this will give you the best shot of getting it sold), and if that's the attorney, then just find another agent to list but do nothing else.Keep in mind that attorneys will likely expect to get paid by the lender; you want to make sure the attorney isn't expecting any payment from the seller, as most short sellers aren't in a position to be paying atty fees.

That alone facilitated saving a lot.

I am not here to steal anyone's house or money, only to facilitate a deal they most likely would not have been able to do on their own.

No, in fact it will often raise them.Both here and on 3 other sites I see people contemplating 1031 exchanges when they barely have enough gain to justify the expense of a facilitator and the extra acquisition costs.For the record my income tax return for the past 12 years has had all of the following, just about every year for most items.W2 income, 1099 consulting/sales incomeInterest income, including interest from seller financed loans,Recapture of depreciationRental income, and expenses and depreciation on rentals pptyLT cap gains from sale of long held rentalsST cap gains from flipsSub S corp income from my sales company401k reductions, SIMPLE reductionsOffice in house expenses, loads of mileage for business travel and other self-employed business expeneseDividends from stocks and mutual fundsDespite all of this carp I feel confident, because I closely review the return and question the CPA that if I wanted I could purchase TurboTax and do it myself.

It appears as though you have 2/3.Find good deals, be a facilitator, the money will find you.

DefinitionsAs used in this subchapter --(1) The term "Bureau" means the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.(2) The term "communication" means the conveying of information regarding a debt directly or indirectly to any person through any medium.(3) The term "consumer" means any natural person obligated or allegedly obligated to pay any debt.(4) The term "creditor" means any person who offers or extends credit creating a debt or to whom a debt is owed, but such term does not include any person to the extent that he receives an assignment or transfer of a debt in default solely for the purpose of facilitating collection of such debt for another.(5) The term "debt" means any obligation or alleged obligation of a consumer to pay money arising out of a transaction in which the money, property, insurance or services which are the subject of the transaction are primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, whether or not such obligation has been reduced to judgment.(6) The term "debt collector" means any person who uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal purpose of which is the collection of any debts, or who regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another.

I believe that perspective facilitates healthy discussion.