BP,Two questions:- Does anyone know of any statistics illustrating the percentage of landlords that actually get sued by their tenant?

You need to bring your break even point in gradually and thereafter you can illustrate a conservative increase over a period of time.

Back to my point, the discussion and request seem to be very broad in nature opposed to specific, which I think also illustrates a lack of acute understanding of those attempting to engage in a discussion about notes.

If the language is present, then you will want to send some letters out citing the language and informing the borrower the payment is insufficient and illustrating how the partial payment was applied and essentially make a New demand on the new updated balance.

Illustrating where investors are willing to park their money and collect.If you are a lower level investor and have time to hunt and pick on deals then sure you can still find deals where you make high returns.

It is not that simple.A story that might make this a thread a bit more fun and illustrate a point...An older RE investor from GA once told me a story.

I did that whole build up on purpose to illustrate that there is no magic to this.

WH.....this is good, but again i am thinking on a couple things here, only wanting to make things flow as simply as possible with little to no gliches at the end of the transaction....i'll try to explain what i mean and maybe i'm speaking for many out there that are making some attempt to find success in this endeavor....in regard only to a short sale transaction the following occurs:property owner (let's call this person the "seller") allows for an individual (let's call this person the "buyer") to "purchase" the property merely for the sake of the "buyer" moving forward to deal with the loss mit people at the lender.as time moves along, this "buyer" gets written confirmation of the lender accepting the "price" offered via the customery HUD-1.now let's say for illustration purposes the "approved" price the lender has agreed to is $250000, the value of the property seems to be in the neighborhood of $350000 and the "buyer" wants to "double escrow" this bad boy for $300000 (generating a clean $50K profit)......in this illustration/scenario the question remains: "what is the cleanest, simplist" way to accomplish this?

He basically wanted me to find an area on a graph that optimizes my investment...who knows.As for the question is he an investor, yes he's but I think his example was to purposely illustrate a poor investment as to open our eyes a little bit.

I like those episodes too, since it illustrates that if a rehab is approached with planning and done SMART, it can really work!