We routinely do $100k short sales with the POF over $1M.

Had a very uncomfortable telephone discussion with the sales guy, who acted as if he was a coach.

It got uncomfortable in the beginning and I actually quit for a few months.

Another post implied that you might be "black listed" if you routinely made extremely low offers to banks.I'm going to look at a few REO's tomorrow (several on the market for well over 100 days).

However, she made the other tenants in the building very uncomfortable and would let random homeless men in to sleep in the hallway.  

I am experienced enough to take a look at houses and know what I am getting myself into and what to budget for repairs before making an offer.If you are uncomfortable with looking at the property and developing an idea of cost of repairs do you have a trusted contractor that can help or mentor you?

I personally do not feel routine cleaning should fall on the owner.  

The owner may or may not want to stay with the management company or like their choicesSome up-charge routine maintenance costs by some percentage 10% (some are up front about it and others are not).

I turn on the Greek news regularly and see places that I know well going up in flames, desperate rioters throwing Molotov cocktails at the police, EU and Greek officials routinely making surreal pronouncements and projections about the economy for one politically-expedient reason or another that has no basis in fact.Bad things happen.

But, some of the basic books that do analysis of deals will hit most of the routine rules and situations.Jon