We have used various methods to save up for down-payment funds: we set aside pay raises instead of consuming them, re-enlistment bonus sums, tax-free income from deployments, an inheritance check, the tax-free savings account while deployed...And so forth.  

Auction.com is hired by banks to sell assets to highest bidder through quasi on line auctions.in some states LIke Alabama they are actually the criers at the public court house auction.. if not sold there then those assets are brought into the loss mit departments then listed with auction to be sold on line at some point in the future.I like it as they require actual money to buy this stuff as in you need healthy deposits and REAL POF's and you can't assign contracts etc.. so it mitigates competition with the no money wholesalers that are out there by the millions  LOL.. 

This issue is still being resolved I believe.A L/O that is with an occupant and where rental credits are applied is a financing agreement, you need to follow Dodd-Frank and Predatory Lender Laws with consumers (your tenants). 

Let's say you can consume 2 hours a day of podcasts.  

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleges that ITT also misled its students—a charge the company strongly denies.

There are certainly issues including how many and what types of properties you can sell with these methods and to whom, but most of those are consumer protection issues.  

Consumer dealings are the bread and butter of the big banks and the banksters who run them.

I research everything by asking for complaints by consumers or victims.

imagine how great the world would be if consumers only bought things that were created through ethical means lol, Only reason wholesalers even have to put things under contract is to protect their interest in a deal that otherwise crooked investors would back door.

It's SO time-consuming that you'll hate it by the time you finish - there's always something that you forgot or doesn't fit.