Title is often transfered that day, can't do that with financing contingencies.HML or private financing may be an option.

My thoughts on how we let the whole thing happen goes back the conception of the federal reserve system by a group of competing bankers in secrecy (all public data now).

Here is the meat of it:Statistics compiled by data aggregator RealtyTrac hint at the magnitude of the problem nationwide.

Here is an article that points out how the data from lenders is not to be relied upon without scrutiny from outside the industry.

If you don't have actual MLS sold data, you don't have the full story on prices.

I deduct all that sort of stuff, also any subscriptions or fees that I have to pay to acquire data. my cpa says that is fine.

I'd look at the Case Shiller home price data and compare that to inflation.

You'll find enough data here at the site to get started for sure.

As soon as you mention the word loss mit or they look up the file and see it is in loss mit, they will be all too happy to get rid of you and transfer you to the loss mit que most likely.

For this reason several title companies will not insure their title searches on tax deeds until 2 years seasoning in my case since the transfer of ownership using a tax deed.There can be many other such reasons for the seasoning requirement and the amount of seasoning time required may vary.