All third party money will have strings attached to it so really it isn't cash but a loan plain and simple.

If he's warm I'll keep talking to him once a week, if he's hot I want to talk to him and his wife about doing a lease to ownI leave behind a landlord basic form letter with the lease to own articles attached from Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, realtor.com

If they have  a personal guarantee from you and you are not insolvent then I do not see that happening.They know you have assets and income and will go after you rather than taking a loss.The 20k is usually a promissory note where the bank agrees to release the collateral for XX and then you keep paying the difference.The bank might require you to secure the promissory note with one of your other properties that has equity to attach to until it is paid off.If you are paying 20k it will still cost you money but you will not own the property anymore or deal with tenants in a crummy area etc.No legal advice given.  

It is possible to get a pre-judgment attachment of the real estate, that has to be signed by the judge and recorded by the sheriff.

- the only place i put my phone number is on the picture that i attach to the posting - I am using three different versions of posts.

If you have a 1400 square-foot home with an attached two car garage and it's a one-story your roof is probably going to be around 23 squares and $4500 for 23 squares of roofing is very cheap.

I attached the link to the legal zoom page below its $160 which is basically the cost of a PO box, plus it is usually more convenient than traveling to a mailbox or PO box to check it all the time.

When the property becomes yours, what happens to that mortgage that was attached to the property? 

They are instructed that it can be put on a pole behind the house or beside the house as long as it is not attached to the house or is an eye sore. 

I'm a Realtor and Real Estate investor in the Panhandle of Florida.