One one property I looked at last year (a 6-unit), Fifth Third had refused to renew a performing note, and ended up selling the note in pre-foreclosure stage to an investment group, at a huge discount (probably .40 on the dollar).

I try to stage the property if I can.

If you have any questions about design, staging, staging photography, or furniture placement for the best flow thru a house ask!

I would much rather at this stage by or build good properties that I might add to my portfolio and receive maximum depreciation and some cash flow.

I handle the actual negotiations with the banks.Hello;I would like to know if a homeowner agrees to sell me their home during the PRE-FORECLOSURE stage and they sign the authorization to release form for the asset manager/bank, Can or should I indicate that i'm an investor looking to purchase the home or do i indicate otherwise?

Can someone link to soemthing showing mthly/qtrly trends (by market) in the subcomponents of the "overhang" (loans 90 days past due, NOD/pre-foreclosure stage, REO, maybe even loan mods/workouts if that's available).

I'm not going to buy Walmart or Microsoft at the start up stage as a speculator because I saw huge appreciation potential before anyone else... but I'll sift through the solid performers and try to find the corner cases that are neglected and get predictable and above market returns.

It sounds like you're in the honeymoon stages of things.

Or I could be utterly and completely wrong.

Less than two days remain until prices climb to $250 from $200 for a pass to the conference.We're now over the 200 attendee milestone and I'm extremely excited about how things are coming together.I agree with what Will just said, and unfortunately, with what Nick said as well.A Call to ActionOne of the things that has struck me about the event more than anything else are the emails from people who think that we're going to be having our speakers soliciting some crap in the back of the room while on stage, regardless of what we've said.These emails are the very reason why this event is so important for us to pull off.