HUD has gone through big changes in the last few months with many being negative.They are doing a lot of things that do not make sense.I haven't sold a HUD property in years because I just do commercial real estate now.Really think about this point for your career.If I a house is priced at 80k as the listing broker I will be paid.If you work with a buyer and ten offers are submitted you have only a 10% chance of getting paid with the accepted winning bid.On the REO side many have left the listing side because of asset managers 1% referral fee leaving them 2 if they are lucky before their broker split if they are not the broker.Count in BS designations that count a few hundred apiece each a year,conferences,computer platform fees,extending money for rekeys,offering cash for keys,and low price points and you make almost zilch for a big headache.With the Robo signing fiasco many banks are sitting on properties they own.This makes asset companies have to recruit agents for promise of potential listings by collecting fees.

I could be wrong and these are really legitimate posts I'm reading about a really legit software app.And since this site is the 'real deal' of real estate sites I figured I'd come on here and (hopefully) get the truth.Anyone use this program?

First of all, as always, would like to thank you J Scott for your insight, you've helped a lot in some of my other questions I've had.Originally posted by J Scott:First, you learned some good lessons for the future:- Whenever you hire a contractor, get a COPY of his license, and have his insurance company fax you a copy of his liability and workmans comp insurance (make sure you get it straight from the insurance company)I figured if I put in the contract that he was required to be licensed, that would be enough, and since I checked on the insurance information he gave me with his insurer, I figured he was legit.

My advice is to stay away from "Rent-to-own" as it is more of a scam than a legit way of selling on an installment agreement.

We upgraded the platform that the site runs on and it led to dozens of problems, which we've been fixing for the past 2 days (I didn't get to have any fun on the 4th as a result, unfortunately).That said, I believe everything is back up and running as it should.

Do you think Google+ will take away advertising dollars from Facebook, or just force agencies to increase budgets to compensate for new platform?

All legit.

I have a national site I am setting up soon.Word Press can be used for full websites and not just blogs.Part of the problem with these Wordpress Companies is they put their info at the bottom and steal your SEO juice.The platform I use that I want to stay in wants 1,500 to 2,000 to design my word press site I want.I know elsewhere I could probably get it done for under 300 to 400 but they will take the SEO juice which I don't want.Basically if I could get the design part done for cheap and then plug it into my provider and keep the SEO juice would be what I am after.

If you are unlicensed you won't get into Equator which is their main platform to work the short sale.I am not a fan of HAFA because the "lender" sets the list price and it's usuallly grossly inflated.

As I posted in G+, the issues are around their platform, which is not expandable.