Matt, I'm unclear on why highter interest rates, or for that matter, using land trusts, will cause lenders to exercise their due on sale clause more.

I noticed that some books mentioned doing exercises.

All I wanted from this exercise was to get my foot in the water but seems like I just took 100 steps backward judging from the 0 responses.

It seems to me that soliciting someone with an offer to buy their house should be more of a "focused" exercise rather a "hit or miss" type of one ( mailings to me seem like just throwing a dart at the dartboard and hoping for a good lead...it's not really addressing the "real" distressed/motivated sellers who really want someone to help them).

The second list never gets hit with marketing and most wont do this exercise do to the cost of the list. 

For this exercise lets choose Bakersfield.

All rights, powers, options or remedies afforded to Buyer either hereunder or by law shall be cumulative and not alternative and the exercise of one right, power, option or remedy shall not bar other rights, powers, options or remedies allowed herein or by law.

The tax code is built to favor business, one simply needs a good accounting firm whom knows how to exercise this.

In September of last year I got the property back by exercising a quit-claim deed as the buyers stopped making payments.

You may argue that you held the property for rental use for two years before the tenant exercised their option to purchase., and, you argue that this qualifies for capital gains tax treatment.I would argue that your intent to sell (flip) never changed, and, that the lease purchase option was just a marketing vehicle to facilitate the sale which allowed your buyer time to get financing in place.