I feel badly for the woman and I want to help her, but outside of a short sale, which I've never done, there's not much I can do.

Then the woman who got me to sign up (mentor) went home to Florida, I never saw her again, and didn't really heard from her so my support line was nill and my husband and I were clueless in Hawaii.

In addition, I called the woman at my local title company with whom I've worked on several deals recently closed and flat out asked her if I could have access to their database to run my own comps (assuring her that when I find my next deal I will certainly bring it to her for escrow & title).

In fact, one woman I became friends with bought a house for 236K that I had looked at and turned down because it was too big for me and had a pool, but was priced at 225K when I looked.

I had one woman tell me about her and her husband getting a divorce about a year ago and was looking to get a different home.

I've thought about purchasing houses for $30,000 - $50,000 on the West side of Ocala where the property taxes are very low, but it is a rough part of town and being a woman, I thought better of it.

Unless of course you're an attractive young woman.

Having said that, she certainly should have someone in her office (or another office if it's a one-woman show!)

When you first spoke to this woman you needed to assure her that you were a professional and that you would take care of her.

The other potential freak was a woman who looked at one of my one-bedroom houses.