My friend spent $81,000 on marketing and told me he could not trace one sale to a lead generated by the program and that the program generated almost no leads anyway.  

Quote from @Chris Seveney: Quote from @Eric Henson: Do you guys ever take the risk of buying a foreclosure at sheriff sale with the previous owner still living in it?

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Yet the sale to sold ratio is 1:1. 

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They didn't extend loan maturities because they were looking out for borrowers--and the moment they feel the market is strong enough for them to liquidate the asset they will foreclose and/or force a sale to recover as much principal as they can. 

The tenants will lie, cheat, and steal at any given opportunity.

That way you control it, they may get some $ from the sale to pay you rent and you own and control the property Thank you for your insight, Chris.

I just bought a house that I could afford, did what I could to create equity and tried to repeat that process when I had an opportunity.

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