Those of you who have been doing short sales in the current housing crisis--any information on this?

I don't know any HMLs that will make loans to owner-occupants simply because of all the financial regulation/protections that came about through the financial crisis (Dodd-Frank etc.).

After graduating in the middle of the financial crisis, I started my career in the startup world and discovered a passion for marketing; I helped to start a company with three other first-time entrepreneurs and took over the company's marketing as it grew to ten employees in three years.

Good article of Someone taking advantage of a city's crisis and of investors' desire to invest.

This happened to many people during the 2008 financial crisis.

There's a benefit to being diplomatic, but the bottom line is, its now your building, your business. 

The housing crisis decimated communities across the country.

However, the best example is that airlines no longer are allowed to ask for proof that a service animal is required.Plus, because the use of service animals have extended so far beyond the previous scope of assistance animals, it becomes a quagmire as you get into situations where diabetics use dogs that can detect an oncoming blood sugar crisis before a blood test; people with seizure disorders have dogs who can detect an oncoming seizure, which medical science can't outside of an MRI/CAT/EMG; and therapy animals used to calm people with emotional &/or psychological disorders.  

Most were very tiny, about 250 square feet.This building was originally an old hardware store, and during the WW II housing crisis in the Bay Area, made into as many units as it could handle, with a few one-bedrooms thrown in. 

Heck yeah you ought to take an attorney's advice into consideration when drafting a rental agreement and I'd HIGHLY recommend getting some referrals on that as well, you want one who's well versed LOCALLY in what flies and what doesn't, which here as was explained to myself and at least one other BP member attended, plus many more (and a rather "famous" BP member at that who I recognized from her profile pic, but she certainly seems to know what she's doing with rentals and was at the same event, a "landlord bootcamp" where the local attorney who I've been told is THE BEST landlord atty to call in a crisis taught the ins and outs of this stuff) but part of what he explained was how in Milwaukee Cty the judiciary of this county of nearly 1M residents which ranges from very poor areas to very wealthy areas has mostly very liberal, left leaning judges who generally ALWAYS find any reason they can to take the tenant's side and often give some awful tenants "one more chance" much to the landlord's chagrin.