My real estate agent tells me the house is going to eventually go to short sale and they wont get a penny for it if they continue to do nothing.

Problem is I wont be able to go there to see what i am buying, due to caring for sick relative. anyone ever buy in this way,and have entire deal handled by professionals out of town?

Mine was that I never want to see myself suffer like my mom did raising four kids on here own.

Seems to me we have a pretty large population, easily identified, of people we know want to own a home, anddd who just suffered damage to their credit so will be unable to get a conventional loan.Any thoughts?

When this began, we did discuss this with Clayton Homes, however, the city/county wont let us in this location.

There are other lenders doing 3-5 yr bridge loans for owner/occupants and investors (such as this company that another BP poster mentioned: http://www.westmooregroup.com/criteria.html), taking up some of the slack where banks won' t go these days.

The question is is it best to be upfront with the seller, and let them know you wont be the actual purchaser or go forward with the deal without this information in the contract.

Any one ever heard of them or anyone know of a cheap SEO/social/online marketing options that can deliver and wont drain the pocket book?

The increase of taxes wont be enough and the winding down of current spending can only reduce the pain.

Our reputations puts people in our units and I won't throw it away over cutting major corners.The other expense I have seen creep up on owners (besides HVAC as was mentions) has been delinquent utility bills based off a previous tenant.When our tenants rent a unit that requires then to pay utilities, we make sure the account is in their name before we transfer the key.If they cant comply with that request, I wont rent to them