It seems to me that you should now look at every potential deal in that same light ie. crunch the numbers; do they work for Buyer/s that you would be looking to find?

Light weight.

Doing an installment sale isn't a sale that attempts to obtain excess equities.Need to expose your foreclosed properties to the market, not sell from backroom deals.Selling to an investor for cash is fine, an equity loan is a horse of a different color, residential or commercial.

@Christian Carson I think a few financial numbers that have been thrown around should be clarified and hopefully they will shed some light on the arguments. 

clean tidy exterior plus outdoor lighting for safety 

Once dried out, they replaced sheetrock and repainted, evaluated the wooden floors and were able to sand and restain them (and are happier with the new color), and of course fixed the pipe/furnace.  

If anyone can please shed some light on the subject it would be appreciated.Thanks.

In any event, even "trusted" friends have been known to let greed color their judgment, so be careful, and do NOT be completely hands off.

So many images of properties are taken from wacky angles, with poor lighting, and no regard for what is and isn't in the picture.

I'll give it a shot here to see if I can shed some light on the subject.Most investors avoid going conventional because it's expensive, time consuming and eats up quite a bit of your cash, now that we have to bring in 20% down before they'll even consider looking at the loan.