My concern is that it could appraise less than $250000 and would defeat my purpose of refinancing.

@Derek Caffe You can save the deal with cash, but that defeats the point of a VA loan.Let the owner know and if s/he won't come down to 100k I would walk on this one.  

Congrats on defeating the facebook drug but what is your next step with these properties?

Coming out of bankruptcy with payments you can't make defeats the purpose.

That kind of defeats the purpose of a subject to if you don't really own it on paper.So that puts you right back where you were with taking the risk of a subject to being accelerated, and taking the risk of irking the state attorney general on a preforeclosure deal with a distressed borrower.

All cash just costs you more, and usually you won't recover that cost for a very, very long time...which defeats the purpose of investing.In this case, however, your statement leads us to believe that you would be making a choice between high cost and no cash flow (maybe even negative), which is just another version of higher cost...just not paid for all at once.If those are your two options, then there is only one choice...NEITHER. 

If I told you the name of my LLC, it would defeat one of the purposes for which it was formed :)If it is intended as a passive holding company, and not an active business, then the name does not matter.

I felt like that was defeating the purpose.

What would work would be using a US lender if you have US collateral to give but that would likely defeat the purpose and you probably don't need me to tell you that.Finally, there is a lot of inaccurate information around about investing overseas.

Be sure your aware of the rules so that journey remains a positive experience.In addition to the rules that govern which transactions are and are not permissible, there are some transactions that are taxable even within a 401(k), which is sort of self-defeating.