Opinions will vary on this, but I never put a house on the market until it is totally complete with landscaping, final cleanup and staging completed.You only get one chance to make a good first impression with a buyer, you want the buyer to be noticing all the great features, you dont want them looking and noticing incomplete or unfinished items.We have had many of our houses sell first weekend on the market this past year.

Just not enough inventory, and what was there was getting bid up to ridiculous levels.We've spent the past year working on alternative methods of acquisition, and are finally starting to get some deals in the pipeline.

Be sure you do the resale portion -- that will give you a final cash flow, which is the expected cash proceeds from the sale of the property (after paying off the mortgage and costs of sale).

But they shouldn't be giving you ultimatums.Ultimately, you have to be the one that makes the final decisions on your deals.

He has had 3 offers, finally the bank approved the last one, (he struggled to prove hardship on his end etc) but this last offer backed out.

I have always been intererested in real estate and finally decided to jump in.

I asked this question so that I would make the right decisions in the future with more acquisitions.

This might be making decisions on acquisitions, sales, or rehab strategy, tenant issues presented by property management, employee concerns or guidance, etc.Another third is acquisitions research and raising capital.

While that doesn't explain the stupidity of the company as a whole, it does explain why this happened.Each department (the loan mod dept and the acquisition dept) likely has their own goals and financial targets and it's unlikely the departments communicate or coordinate with one another.

So, when the investor finally owns the REO and can achieve a 90% recovery of market value, why would they take a lesser amount?