Here are my two cents, some banks are recognizing the benefit of having a good process for dealing with short sales.However, I am noticing that real estate agents and sellers are wasting a ton of time trying to get a bank to agree to a short sale with no written offer.

Taking on too many orders- This can happen when you have already proven your ability to handle multiple orders.

.* Having their Option able to be "marketed and sold" by TBers at their own expense if there is either a family emergency or job transfer (needs to be proven)IMHO, people that 10% into a property will get financed better and easier than No Money Down or 3%.

Marriage is a religious covenant, government should get their nose out of it all the way around.Now, the issue of whether the government should "recognize" any kind of union is a whole different question.Having said all of that, I have a question to those who oppose gay "marriage" ...

Anything that the tenant puts on the application is just fiction until proven otherwise and I'm not going to spend hours and hours screening each applicant.

Whether you like it or not, how many of you instantly recognize picures of certain agents in your market because they have built their own brand by keeping their image on all their marketing.

Andrew - You've just proven my point about the unreliability of these property value websites.

They might not recognize the term "QI" for example.

I am an experienced investor with a proven track record.

In my opinion, the informed investor understands all of these, and more, and recognizes that they have different purposes and can satisfy different objectives.For example, on the original subject, cap rates.