The average rate from 1972 until 2012 from Freddi mac charts is 8.69%.

Matt Rothwell I've lived in the Raleigh/Durham area my whole life and have seen this area have off the charts growth in the past 15-20 years.

The corollary is: Lawsuits are not normally a good exit strategy.4)Real estate has hair.

I'd love to view a chart of parking spot prices in the past 20 years.http://www.boston.com/businessupdates/2013/06/13/tandem-parking-spots-sell-for/tsdqLBPRmQFEojy2US5vXO/story.html

I do not like holding deals with "hair" on them meaning many things that can bite you down the road.

I pretty strongly encourage you to have an accountant or Quickbooks expert who works with flippers give you a hand in setting up your chart of accounts and training you in how to use it.

He has shown me a chart of the past 20 years averaging 14%.

We usually look to get about 3% or a hair above.

I draw out circles and diamonds, lol, not Amway, but a flow chart as to what needs to be done and consider alternatives as well as what needs to happen.

Jason lots of fraud and criminals out there trying to make a quick buck.You could be sucked in and chosen "guilty by association" in the deal.We have a saying in the business.This deal has "too much hair on it" and you need to walk away.Many of these techniques with short sales squeaked by 3 or 4 years ago before bank guidelines were in place.Now with systems you cannot get away with anything if you wanted to.Before there were shades of grey that were closed out.I would see buyers write up a bill of sale and pay the seller 4,000 for JUNK for personal property.At the time certain things didn't have to be disclosed.Short sales made up only about 1 percent of loans when the market just started turning.So anyone looking at short sale techniques make sure they work TODAY and not from years ago.You will pay dearly for using old techniques that can get you in trouble that are not allowed today.You have to adapt and structure deals to stay in compliance with the ever changing laws.