In that type of environment, hard assets like real estate can help preserve wealth. 

I'm a property preservation contractor and I'm trying to figure out a way to buy these pre-foreclosures and foreclosures from the work orders that are assigned to me.

I'm not sure I'm in a position yet to qualify personally for a loan balance of 2 million which would be around 2.5-3mill property.I've just been doing small multi family deals in lower income areas which have great margins, but obviously more management intensive.I guess if I'm a guy with good income outside of real estate, young but some experience, but I could raise the equity, reserves, and capex I just want to know how lenders view financing these.I'm sure many more established and seasoned investors could qualify alone on their income and balance sheet, and just include partners to diversify risk and preserve capital.I'm also learning, more investors like to be apart of something "bigger".

It's good to have a strategy to deal with this in a constructive way that preserves the value of this note as much as possible--while also looking ahead to its payoff.Maureen

Americans lives are more valuable than other lives, and preserving this country and our values is more important than anything else.Your views seem to be much more liberal than mine (in fact, I'm starting to wonder if the reason you claim to hate liberals so much is that you're secretly pretty liberal yourself).I don't fault you for your liberal views, but keep in mind that when this country is under middle-eastern control, it will be because people like YOU weren't willing to step up and support the taking of swift and decisive action.Tim - If you want to take more "diplomatic" routes to end this WAR ON OUR PEOPLE, that's fine.

No person shall be held liable for any violation of this section if he shows by a preponderance of the evidence that at the time of the alleged violation he maintained reasonable procedures to assure compliance with the provisions of this section.Sorry about the appearance of the above quote, it was simply a copy-n-paste, but I think BP didn't preserve the whitespace indenting things.

"Required repairs are limited to those repairs necessary to preserve the continued marketability of the property and to protect the health and safety of the occupants, A.K.A. the three S's"That's why HUD homes will have an escrow amount attached to the listing, detailing the repairs needed and associated prices to bring the home up to standards.

Preserve and protect the assets I have.Baltazar-thank you for the nice comments about my book.

Most people want to preserve a feeling of being the supreme investor who is all put together, feels confident in how they run their whole business, and to me...puts on a good show.

Warranty deeds will preserve the chain of title and will also preserve the title insurance you paid for when you bought your place.