Either just keep living where you are living and find a SFR or as suggested find a fixer upper, make it your home, then extract the equity for your first SFR.As pointed out before you do any of this you will have to build up your credit score.Whatever you do make sure after the down payment that you have enough cash to cover any major expenses or vacancies that might arise.So to reiterate.1.

A large part of the loan proceeds were almost immediately distributed to “personal accounts and payoffs†for Tim Blixseth, who founded Yellowstone and controlled it, and his former wife, Edra.“The only plausible explanation for Credit Suisse’s actions is that it was simply driven by the fees it was extracting from the loans it was selling, and letting the chips fall where they may,†the judge wrote.“Unfortunately for Credit Suisse,†he added, “those chips fell in this court.â€A Credit Suisse spokesman told Reuters that the company was disappointed with the ruling, disagreed with the court’s findings and was considering its options.

i use spreadsheets...i got sick of the accounting software and all the info it wanted so I enter every receipt onto a master data file and extract what i need, when i need it.

Ryan it's difficult for me to extract that out of the market, even with a bunch of comps to use.

No I don't feel you should be angry.This isn't a pocket short sale listing from what you are describing.The servicer for the loan as part of their PSA agreement probably stipulates the property to be exposed FULLY to the market to extract the most value.If you do not have a buyer brokerage agreement with this agent your a CUSTOMER and NOT a CLIENT.If you had an agreement signed with you as a client and also the seller then when doing the purchase and sale they could select dual agency if allowed in your state.They could also bring another agent in for your side or fill in the contract with you being the customer and the seller the client.There is also implied duty with the lender on a short sale as the bank is taking the loss on the loan and approving the sale or it doesn't close.It sounds like you are looking for a needle in a haystack and now you are upset competition is involved.It happens.

And while you might be a cash buyer now, down the road you may want to extract equity to grow.

Just like almost all of us continue to make our car payments even though the loan balance is almost guaranteed to exceed the value.I know there were also lots of homeowners who refinanced and HELOC'ed their properties over and over, extracting every bit of that inflated equity.

The best way to find those values is either to ask a local knowledgable realtor, or to extract them by doing a comparative analysis on like properties with one that doesn't have that particular feature, and the same way that you wold do a CMA.  

OK, I'll play devil's advocate to Jon's advice on extracting equity from your personal residence.

When you transfer title to a partnership (LLC), you might be adding additional risk if your partner has creditor's trying to extract payments on bad debts or even a judgment.Another way for you to do this is a joint venture agreement.