Your father's investments may not match what you, or the estate, may have in mind.

Michael Lerch Michael, depending on the competition of your area, if you want to get on top of search results organically, in my opinion you should hire an SEO company.

Google search "short sale option scam" and you'll see.A lot of the list agents get sucked into it unknowingly, and they accept them because the option-holder/investor offers to market the property for them and negotiate all offers with the bank, resulting in less work.Tell the agent that you can only do it if it's disclosed to the bank upfront and again on the HUD at closing.

I usually figure a selling price for a potential property based on non-reo/non-short sale vacant closings in the last 6 months then back out commissions, carry costs and repairs... resulting in a maximum purchase price.

You do the depreciation schedule and rent and deductions (such as on a 1065), work all the numbers, and only the balance passes through to your income.It's true that the "balance" - meaning the NOI or NOL - will pass through to your personal tax return Ken, but the net result is the same.

The gurus preach that you're not truly motivated until you have no income and have to make money, but I would argue that marginal income can also result in bad (read desperate) decisions.It doesn't sound like you are anywhere near that kind of bad decision making, but stuff happens.

Sheena: I replied to your PM about the information that came up on google regarding your property and is does not exactly match what you have been told.

No longer do anything in the newspaper for advertising rentals.My best results come from the sign in front of the building.

Not sure what year they used as their =100 baseline, but the takeaway for me is the country to country comparison.Here Canadian Teranet data (similar to the US Case-Shiller index using matched-pair sales of single family homes) shows house prices have risen at a much faster rate than Canadian per-capita GDP, per-capita income, rents, or inflation.

Your ex is probably concerned with liability resulting from the rental.you can't force your ex to sell and contribute money at closing to make up the difference between sales price and what is owed.