If they have cash earning 0% interest; then it will be attractive to them and safe if the LTV is low.

The option of putting 3.5% down with a government loan is attractive, but our monthly payments would be high and we would have interest on 96.5% of the money loaned.

In a class c neighborhood you need to consider that move-out costs are going to be much higher, because it is going to be very difficult to attract a tenant that is going to pay the right amount of deposit.

If so, does this look like a deal that would be attractive to a private lender?

Obviously the rental yield in the Bay Area is not very attractive given all the costs and tenant-friendly law that make management more challenging.

Not sure it will help me attract more tenants.

This home attracted buyers that were lower income and couldn't come up with the down payments and wanted the rent much lower than I wanted.

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Some listing agents will list the short sale at around the BPO value, some will list significantly lower in order to attract a buyer and others will list significantly higher if they're trying to protect their client from deficiency implications.Ignore the list price and offer what you it's worth as an investment to you...

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