I love short sales I'm a CD PE expert also I got my certification for short sales and they are not as hard as people make them to be you just need to create your system I use a lot of computer base for my forms and I email them to my clients and have those filled out by the time I get there I have them have all the documents that I need from them ready when I get there to their house and you usually get both sides of the check for closing, not hard to do.

Sometimes the internet and HomeSearch computers are not as fast as one would like. 

That same day, after eating a snagged apple from a friend's lunch tray and a sample piece of bread from the bakery next to my university, I headed over to the computer lab and put an ad on Craigslist to become a house-sitter/pet sitter.

For computing pre-tax ROI I take rent less all actual expenses and divide by the cash invested.  

@Chris Berg the loan position information in PropertyRadar is based on computer models, and while it is a great starting point it should not be relied on for purchasing at auction, as per the disclaimer in the software.

In the beginning they wanted desktop appraisals but over time and doing so many they just trust me.#2.

Investment interest does not include any qualified home mortgage interest or any interest taken into account in computing income or loss from a passive activity.

For two, when an appraiser is adjusting for size they will look at the average $/sq.ft. in the area and use that to compute an adjustment. 

Property value is an OPINION anyway, a computer algorithm is only going to be able to do so much.   

You can do it all from the ease of your computer/smart phone.