Frechic,     It's possible the short sale doesn't get approved for a variety of reasons.

But looking at the County Clerk's site, it looks like my dad did lose a property to a tax sale in 2013 for failure to pay from 2009-2011.I have no interest in buying or obtaining my uncle or my dad's parcels for a variety of reasons (one being their spat) or anyone's property but I am curious how do Marion County Tax sales work.

Up here in Bend there's such a variety of opportunities.

This is the best we've come up with, but still a bit slow and has a variety of legal holes.

I am a 20 year old college student and I hope I have a bright future ahead of me with a variety of different job opportunities.

I am interested in a variety of real estate investment strategies in hopes to find the one that works best for me.

But you’ll find a variety of all strategies here on the website.

But you’ll find a variety of every type of investor on the site, and everyone is amazingly helpful.

Census Bureau, which regularly collects a variety of information about the population, including the age of homeowners, the estimated value of their homes, and how long it would take to accumulate a 20% down payment.

@Matthew KeeneyIf you live in one of the units, FHA would be an option as long as the residential units are more than 50% of the square footage.You're looking in the 5's for that.There are a wide variety of products out there for what you're looking at, but they vary based on your situation (credit, down payment, debt to income ratio, condition of the property).Rates vary wildly from the 5's to renovation loans that are 12+ with points.Stephanie