See if you can extract any sense of the direction of their moral compass with your conversation.2) If you aren't satisfied with the agent's response, find out who their managing broker is and have the same conversation with them.  3) If this person has no managing broker or you're not able to get anywhere with them, you can file an official complaint with the FL state board of Realtors.  

@Richard Xiong if you plan on financing anything you will need to pay off the bad debt..and it is the moral thing to do and you will feel better about it. 

I am extremely experienced with short sales and when done morally and ethically, they can be an effective method.

From a moral point of view, I'd want to know that before I assisted someone in that manner, did they breach the agreement, are they in the wrong here or did the husband mess up.

The assumption that any judgment or bureaucratic decision is morally valid is simply not realistic.

Short version is just the moral of the story: "don't chase marginal deals as a wholesaler, even if it's your first one"The 2nd lead I got from CL was a REAL one...and a GREAT one.

Moral of the story, read read read.

So the moral of the story is that you need to perform your due diligence, have a plan, have enough qualified people to help you implement the plan, and realize that it will be just like opening up any other new business you might open.

You'll find the list of all books mentioned in the BP podcast at the following link:http://garifunainstitute.com/math/bpbooks.phpI created this list for my personal consumption and to share with my close friends.

Moral of this story; know your market.