THEN I realized there was much more to it than a seller signing a listing agreememt, and an agent submitting it to the multiple listing agency.

There is a big difference between a homeowner who, for whatever reason, is behind on their mortgage payments, and an investor who overleveraged (knowingly and admittingly) on multiple properties and now wants the easy way ot/bail out.I do not intend to have a back and forth with you here, but I believe you are clearly misunderstanding this situation.

Plus, loans get sold multiple times.

Drove up and down every street in my farm area multiple times.

The existence or not of any paperwork is irrelevant.An LLC with multiple members is handled as a partnership, for tax purposes.

Can someone suggest a good way to estimate repair costs, or should I just stick with quotes from multiple contractors?

IYou need to have multiple offers out there, you WILL get at least one accepted.3) You do NOT want to MLS the deal!

Be careful when using IRR in that there are some mathematical peculiarities which can yield multiple answers.

County that are still going into multiples, Beverly Hills, Westwood, and especially Santa Monica.

I dont want to be playing poker for a living 10 years from now..One thing, I have bad bad credit from missing multiple student loan payments and a few other petty bills that I didnt even know I have..