I also won't need to waste thousands of dollars and hours or days of my time attending the seminar.  

Then all the guys gave me that your such a weirdo look I get a lot, and they said "what do you do all day then stare at a wall?"

If lender cannot seek liquidation of collaterals securing loan and no one is up to wasting money to open probate in order to have standing, only to facilitate a no-win short sale?

., no heat in winter, no adequate plumbing) or something minor (the toilet roll holder fell off the wall).Gail

These guys are dreamers and bird dogs and really just seem to be wasting everybody's time and maybe occasionally really rip a super naive person.

If it "takes a long time" to evict someone, that should inspire you to stop wasting time by waiting to file for eviction.

As I was driving home from work tonight listening to Bigger Pockets Podcast 143 (which was excellent if you haven't listened yet) @Brandon Turner brought up a very interesting article that just came out on Fortune.com regarding Wall Street's housing bet not paying off.

how do i make sure they are working efficiently and not wasting their time?

Looks like you're in Denver; you can borrow my machine to try out if you want.Another thing I did was scrub the walls in TSP from Home Depot.

Regardless of that, I will not give up and I strive to be someone who one day is respected and sought for advice and knowledge among the great walls of biggerpockets.