I pick up short sale listings and contract properties by literally knocking on doors and talking to property owners who are confronting an upcoming foreclosure sale.

He never did crack the pieces I mentioned because he was such a good salesman, I mean liar, I mean.. whatever.. that he could bluster his way through it if confronted by facts but essentially he fleshed it out with his "feelings".

When confronted, he simply replied he thought it was a “ridiculous offer” that he didn’t even care.

I also know that I'm very likely not going to be successful at getting this property, but I'm going to try anyway.Usually an seller already knows what the issues with the property are, and this can be unnecessarily confrontational.

We thought since we were determined to buy, why create an unnecessary confrontation?

[citation needed] Several states have taken steps to confront the more unscrupulous practices of equity stripping.

I'm not good at confrontation and I had to keep reminding myself with the bad tenant, this is all business, not personal, when I had to evict her and her thug sons.

I feel that its always good to confront your realtor and ask him/her what needs to be done to get the home sold.

One nephew had convinced the aunt that the town had taken the house back and they no longer had to worry about it… He was very angry when he found I had been speaking to the aunt and informed her that there was still an ownership interest in the property…  he apparently lost his mother recently and went through quite a process with dealing with her estate and presumably that is the reason he wants nothing to do with this house… Confronted me and said they wanted nothing to do with the property and were not willing to deal with attorneys and threatened me if I contacted anyone in his family again...I sent letters to the other cousins who I had good information for, but received no responses.  

When you join our local REIAs, make sure you leave your credit card at home the first several months,  as you will be confronted with a lot of information and training for sale,  much of which you can learn as you go along for free.To your success.