It doesn't matter that in it's as-is state it could be worth 1,100,000 and stabilized ARV is close to 2 million.I am told the banks were burned during the last downturn and now want to put onerous terms on borrowers even with HML money.

The process has been discussed at length in the forums, put #6 at #1 and you won't be jerking homeowners around with putting them under contract and burning up their marketing time if you don't get a buyer.

I agree with the points you list, but factors outside of just housing can stimulate or deflate the energy behind the factors you list.

We offered him more for the purchase, which in turn meant he had leverage to go back to the first guy and say hurry up or you will lose it.In this instance, it became a scenario where he either would burn the first guy and hurt that relationship or tell us that he had to stick with the first and he would talk to us sooner next time and give us a chance.

I just spoke to a commercial banker in NC, who said his bank really got burned during the downturn and now is only lending to the top qualified borrowers.

It's burning a hole in my pocket. 

Venture capital burn rates are at a all time high with lofty valuations for these new start ups.

After many hours of networking and burning up the phones with local wholesalers the writing was on the wall that if I want to get the volume of deals done that I expect for this year, that I was going to have to find them myself.  

Remember that everyone has ‘known’ that rates are going up every year for three years now and I don’t think the fundamentals have changed that much.One other thing that's happening is that the hits to economic indicators from falling oil prices show up almost immediately while the related boosts from cheaper energy costs will take longer to filter through into the data so our domestic economy as measured by GDP will look softer than it actually is for a while.

Can you track burned out landlords, through tenant eviction records?