I was trying to come up with all the fear-fueled terminology that the press has used to describe the current and past incarnations of the economic/housing issues.

He thinks they are in fear of the current state of the mortgage industry and I personally can't blame them.However we are a performing loan with no issues in over a year and that is far better than alot of other loans can say.

* Tenant Buyers #1 Fear: What if I do not get a loan during my exercise period?

Calls his super-fanstastic-Realtor Dusty (me), and nags at her how she has only gotten him 7 properties under contract that week, and gives her a work load of other brainstorms he wishes to accomplish by the end of the day (bah!)

I don't want to let fear prevent it from happening, so I am reading books on law and "buying your first rental property".

I would not fear buying FSBO.

Many of these people have been in real estate for 20 years and many had fears and complaints about the way things are now.

The fund has absolutely no exposure to the assets that experiencing turmoil yet the fund closed due to fears of a panic.

There is so much fear in the credit market right now that the 3 mo Treasury Bill auction went for .05% this week!

I really appreciate the short sale info.... my primary is through countrywide and my second is through wells fargo. so far (and we're only three weeks into this) wells fargo has already gotten back to my agent and said they won't accept if they cannot get countrywide to offer them some money. my agent is doutful that countrywide will want to offer wells fargo anything. so i'm fearing being stuck.