You can ask, but I suspect that you'll come up with little cooperation in that regard.

Is the Daughter cooperative or not?

Cooper Bennett,A few questions,Were you in the military?

Once he cooperates then go with the 'cash for keys idea'.

Just waiting for the bank also sign and have a fully executed contract.Good news is that the bank will evict the person living in the house (That's a relief) since the tenant is not cooperative and they don't allow the county to do the certificate of occupancy (which is needed in my county for every foreclosure sale)PS ( 3rd lesson learned: Deals are like taxis, when one passes, the next one will come...i read that somewhere in BP and in this week I found another potential short sale I am planning to pursue also)Two questions:-Assuming the Certificate of Use comes saying the property needs to fix X Y and Z before is a livable property, How can I leverage this lo lower down my offer again?

If it is REO the banks will auction it, if it is not the law states its still owned by the owner of record. its like a maze and really hard to get anyone to speak to. if the bank dont own it they cant sell it, if the owner wont co operate with the bank in shortsale they cant sell it. so either way you spend a lot of time and get no where.

(at end of lease term) -Occasionally we have tried to start showing the property with the tenants cooperation, and working around their schedule.

Without having the city or other owners cooperate the street would stay the same, at least for a while.If you could buy one or more using a non profit, that may make it more attractive to the current owners to upgrade their own property, and then the private investor or new owner would have a way to get more appreciation on the property.

It does require agreements of cooperation with community owners to work so the LD is going to have to have a good working relationship with the communities in which they place and/or sell homes.

Being very conservative and suspicious, I assume the worst case scenario: poorly-paying and/or non-cooperating tenant (hence listing an occupied property).