You went out there knowing there was someone with a gun and the tone of your post seems to imply that you were looking for the confrontation.You could have been wrong about the gun being loaded.

Advising you implies agency and your best interest must be at heart, their E&O insurance is what will be covering their behaviorWhat about if he conducts an open house for me?

They will seek out a trainer to help them get to the next level.

This may or may not pass muster in our case.Which, jumping to conclusion, implies that there is no standard way of "transferring" the loan directly, in order, having the 3 of us (me, buyer, bank) sitting at the same closing table and performing 1 atomic transaction.

In addition, the training can be done by anyone (ie not a professional trainer).

I did jump immediately to a tax strategy, as your post was written in a way that implied a tax burden.

I’ve become increasingly interested in real estate investment over the past several months and would really like to get my feet wet.I currently reside in central NJ (Middlesex County) and am looking for an investor I can assist in exchange for REI knowledge (I dislike the word mentor, as it implies a burdensome one-way relationship).

Real estate trainers has a crash course best in the business

This implies that the bank is not acquiring the property in a short sale and the homeowner is selling it to a buyer which he would do otherwise.

I never said that GAAP was used or not adjusted for financial or economic analysis, but it was implied above.2.