Every industry has wholesalers....the bananas we eat passes through series of wholesalers before it gets into the stores....It is only fraud when a bank makes a decision based on wrong information provided by agents, appraisal, buyer or sellers....However, the notion that flipping a short sale at an "artificially inflated price" is just one way their legal armies are using to frustrate the common investor.By the way, there is nothing called an artificially inflated price in a free market ....buyers and sellers are free to negotiate any price they want and as long as a buyer is willing to pay what i'm asking, because he feels i'm providing him value for the service of getting him a good deal, then there is nothing artificial in that....Where were all these restrictions when they were mass producing these bad mortgages and re-packaging them to be sold on wall street and exported all over the world?

I will keep learning about the more hands-on types of real estate investing such as rental properties, because I still have the notion that owning properties outright would be a good way of further diversifying our investment portfolio (beyond mutual funds and now CF investments).Keep us up to date on your future choices!

SCOTUS struck down the notion it had to be sexual in nature even though the form still references sexual materials.

I agree with the notion, you've got to spend money to make money!

Seemingly, this notion will curb future home building with too many investors cashing-out of their investments flooding the market.

They will tell you to "clear your cup" - i.e. disregard any preconceived notions about real estate and becoming an entrepreneur in general.

I did not want to turn this guy away from the notion of a partnership with me.

this is a lot more then general notions!

However I refuse subscribe to the notion that out of all of this fix and flipping thats going on in my back yard that I am forced to go looking to do my first deal anywhere else, it just doesn't make sense to me at all!!.

I'm an absolute immigrant newbie from Kenya, who had the false notion that this market was rigged coz everyone used to tell me that the real estate agent would find me the best deal.Thanks to finding this community & providing such an abundance of knowledge; we have a chance now: my hope is restored.