I understand how short sales work, the issue is that if I negotiated the short sale myself, I'm fairly confident I would have been able to negotiate the range lower than the realtor.My question was really in regard to my options being that another party already negotiated a price, not so much how short sales work.

My company has no properties there at this time so this advise is not self serving.

It's self-perpetuating and just results in more and more investor-owned as owner-occ's can't get financed.I talked to Wells last week about a conventional investor refi on a condo THAT MEETS the guidelines and was told that Wells no longer offers refi's to any investor owned condo's - regardless of the investor ratio.

For what it's worth here are my observations.........1- 80% of the information on investing in real estate being sold ranges from totally worthless to incorrect and or possibly illegal2- another 10% might work under some circumstances but either the recipient of the information needs a much more educated and experienced background than he is led to believe or the circumstances regarding the success of the method being sold are limited to a certain geographical area or a certain type of market3- the 10% of information that has value requires work, dedication, persistence, education to be used successfully.4- Certain types of individuals can self study utilizing free information available online and learn as much or more as any program or course will teach them5- most gurus are not currently successful using the methods they teach; they may have once been successful in a particular type of market or in a particular location, but they are not currently utilizing the method they teach successfully.

Ad not buying them back, there fore raising the value of circulated bonds, no, just issues and self purchases, very odd.

Are you confident that the firm will structure the offering properly to be both legally compliant and marketable?

Our fund doesn't buy self-storage so I don't know what the financing market for that product type looks like right now.

When the home was staged and maintained in mint condition, I was very confident I could get $2200.

The SEC recently put out this notice about risks of investing with your SDIRA:Investor Alert: Self-Directed IRAs and the Risk of FraudBe careful who you are investing with.

Once you've purchased the home and addressed all the major items, and you're confident of the maintenance record of the home you can come up with an estimate for your repairs.