Your assignment fee is determined by how much you decide to make on the deal.Now as Robin described you need to make it a win-win situation, and you do that by factoring your fee into your offer initially so that you can be selling it at your predetermined price.Understand, though, that your assignment fee is whatever you think you can sell it for minus what you get the seller to sell the house to you for.

There could be lots of reasons why the seller wants to look at both offers and why highest price is not the only deciding factor.

The list of bad things possible can go on forever.

I'm not in a position where I "need" to go back to work....but I am kind of bored and I've always been involved in community projects, scouting leader, coast guard auxilliary, pheasants forever, etc....

I was happy she had a factor for OE.

Running names and parcel numbers would take forever unless you knew who you were targeting.

If you factor in slumping retail, CRE is toast.On a side note, I was in a mall today and it was EMPTY.

With a competent realtor, I think the most important factor for a successful short sale is the home owner.

At the closing I was told the end of the year was a big factor in my offer being accepted.I bought it with the help of a hml and will be doing alot of repairs, new flooring, kitchen cabinets/counters, new windows, alot of stuff that will help the houses value but strictly from a rental standpoint is not entirely needed.

Having a proper business plan, multiple exit strategies, and the ability to properly analize the investments are also key factors in addition to purchasing at a large discount in any economy, bad, or good.