Do me a favor and hit that button on your typewriter that says "caps lock" so you can stop screaming at people here.

PAved areas in good shape, cracks caulked or filled (pervents further freezing damage), security check of locks and exterior lights, timers working.

If you have the opportunity to lock in low rates for the long term right now , do it.

How do you like paying $150 for a used door lock?

But the long term 10+ year play favors SFH in my book.A significant % of buyers are locked out of the market.

I know I could make a bad name for myself if I start locking up deals and then let them fall through since I don't have anyone lined up to flip it to.

Yea ok… I could hear that conversation now… Well judge, I saw the house just sitting there and figured I could make some money on it… So I broke in, fixed it up, changed the locks, and decided to rent it out.

The facility would be 100% smothered in digital recording devices.

Each transaction must stand on its own merit, in other words.Using a land trust to wholesale the REO: I don't see this working all too often as most competant investors know that banks are wise to that game and simply avoid, reject, or don't even respond to offers in a "land" trust.Certainly an investor "B" can lock up a contract with the bank "A", now have equitable interest in the property, market that property to an end buyer "C" and not break any laws or statutues, nor comit any kind of fraud.

Maybe she locked herself out?