• No foreclosures on credit report

Most properties that appear as you describe are in someone's land bank where they are putting together a bigger deal, waiting for a zoning change or lining up funding.If you do not mind, do a bit of research and then report back.

You should be able to get out of the deal at any time that you choose and have financial reporting monthly.

It would also make no sense to think that all the foreclosures turn into REOs as most foreclosures get resolved before the REO stage.The losses being reported on Wall Street are not from 100% of the MBS going bad.

As the media continues to bombard us with all the news of the increasing foreclosures, it seems to me that there is an opportunity for Realtors to help.

There are different rules to commercial loans then conventional loans and mortgages.Commercials loans do not show up on your credit report unless you don't pay them or become deliquent.

In any event this could be good news for short sale investors.John Corey

The safest thing to do is to have a title company do a preliminary title report.

South Bay, Peninsula, SF, Marin County, East Bay and other areas all seen as part of the Bay Area.I have even heard a few people in Southern CA calling a place done that way the Bay Area though most people would not do that in CA.So, do we have reports from different parts of the same SF Bay Area or just reports based on two different perspectives?

The more you educate the customer the more you reduce the risk they feel they are taking so they move forward.A compromise if you can not publish a book in the newspaper classified section is to offer a free report.