Hi , I've participated in about 8 auctions for 1 occupied property over about 9 months.  

It takes about the same amount of time as driving from the suburbs, and certainly a lot more convenient.I presently am not participating in any of the local meet-ups in the area. 

My question to the BP community is, have you ever crowdfunded your own deal by inviting participants into a percentage partnership on a particular deal?

I am a Broker and I participate in every transaction I flip and place an agent in the process to limit the post closing liability, and do some of the leg work.  

Looking forward to participating with you all-

Simply participating wherever you can on BP is huge too.

The bank doesn't care if you are underwater but, because you are underwater, a potential sale will require a short sale so, you go through the exact same hoops that you would go through for a loan modification to determine if the bank will agree to participate in a short sale.

@Dana Whicker I do participate in leisure activities.

This is why I don't participate in lease-to-own or wholesale deals.To explain why I think lease-to-owners pay a premium:In my market, LTOs pay a large NROC (lame!

Depending on how tight the market is in your area you can, at times, get them to pay you more than what they believe the "market value" is but at times (when their money is tight) they will reduce what they will pay (and, once again, tough noogies to the landlord).We were able to increase the rent on our one Section 8 rental (when we participated in this program) by (gasp!)