If your "buddy" shows up later, depending on the intent and his attempting to lease was to cover the obligation, other doors could opened, an invalid deed, an owner occupied, a wrongful foreclosure if that deed is filed contrary to his homestead exemption rights, origination of a consumer financing arrangement.....it could mount up, if a local DA get's involved, your shambled deal can go down some serious roads.

We both appraise property the rest of the day.When a project is complete and its time to sell he will oversee our staff running internet and web ads, we put it in the MLS after a couple weeks with a flat rate listing, and he will put out the signs, etc. and show the property to any non-represented buyers.

August 2014Entry 1---Prior to being a full time real estate, um, 'person,' I was a web marketing guy and writer.

Although I do offer my web design/graphic design/branding skills as a barter.

I use Postlets.com that uploads my listing to over 20 WEB sites and let me cut-n-paste the listing to Craigslist.

I've not looked at Broomfield county, but most public trustees have a web site that lists pending actions.  

But a web-based service built for property management has this and many other time savers, not to mention organizational tools.

Lenders sells tens of thousands of properties a year and also negotiate a lot on their loans so unless you are dealing with a newbie asset manager they are generally experienced.If you do offer on the short sale make sure you do not have a lot of EM tied up into the deal.

My wife found this web-site believing it could help.

I don't think he's active on BP, but he does have a web-site and I met him for coffee the last time I was out there, great guy.Pat