A car repo might be OK, depending on how recent and whether they have alternative transportation to get to work.

It is worded to make the deal still feel natural and hassle free.

We've met four times so far and am really enjoying the exchange of information and learning opportunities that are naturally present when you put like-minded folks together.Let me know if you would like to attend our next one.Roger Lin

Hi @Rick Lucias ,That's the nature of the business but hang in there!

- Any other alternatives to the quiet title path, in order to get title insurance and sell?

Hi all,I just met with my RE agent and surprise, surprise, based on the pre-approval that I got from our broker, I could not find any properties that I could positive cash flow with unless I put more than 20% down in "decent" neighborhoods.For you SoCal investors out there, where alternatives are you looking at?

Lots of sociopathic personalities out there,, however at the end of the day buying rehabbers is not a highly complicated business as you state LOL, I must have the same algorithm hard wired in my brain along with my lie detector eye balls, I certainly got my share of liars and embellishments, but none were funded, maybe it's my cynical nature, maybe a bit of human intelligence gathering from my Army intelligence days, could be the old examiner days that sound off alarms, might be prudent lending practices that made me so lucky, maybe all of it together just didn't give those types a snowball's chance on a hot stove of getting past me, since it never happened with my money or my client's money.

The alternative is to try to get a manager on site and manage that person remotely but again very challenging.

There is no way of saying which borrower or tenant will default except through good underwriting practices and the ability to read people, I don't miss very often and there are aspects of life, those "financial life events" that can never be foreseen in advance.As to bands of investment/price, not really as I'm an underwriter type and consider each property in relation to the market demand, market rents or collateral nature, to the tenant/borrower.

Most traditional brokerage/IRA firms like Schwab, Fidelity, etc do not custody alternative assets due to the complexity and regulations involved in asset review, reporting, valuations, etc.