When I open my data source in Excel I get a an error message that says "This file needs to be opened by the Excel Workbook text converter, which may pose a security risk if the file you are opening is a malicious file.

Loan products are much the same at banks

We'll see how this campaign method pans out.As for that one year performance, it'd be much easier to show everyone the spreadsheet, so if someone can let me know how to post an excel file, I'd be happy to.

Excellent advice from everyone and when you've been at this long enough @Kathlyn Lewis, you'll have just as many stories :) I went through this last week.

If you don't have good egress and have to get it water proof (my basement takes on water every year, we just have our storage boxes on short stilts, as it was way too expensive to fix the problem), it's probably not worth the effort to finish the basement.For rental comps, you could start monitoring Craigslist in the areas you like weekly and putting the data in Excel so that you have higher quality comp data than what is on Craigslist right now.

@Don KonipolIncredible and excellent advice Don.Will definitely take into consideration all the advice you have given, being I will be needing an HML in the next few weeks.

Further, he is correct the FNMA program being cited is the incorrect product for this scenario.

Keep track of all the buyers who don't bite during the rehab, and contact them again to see the finished product, if no one buys during the rehab.

Hey @Jason Eyerly - excellent question!

.: That is an excellent explanation.