Any corporation or LLC with real estate, enterprises, solutions, or holdings gets red-flagged by conventional lenders pretty quickly =).

There is a difference between core urban centers and suburban to rural areas.In core markets is where recovery starts to happen first.It takes a much longer time for suburban to rural areas to recover.Most purchasers are not including rent increases for B or C product for the next 2 to 3 years in their cash flow analysis for purchase.What most apartment players I talk to are concerned about is increasing utility costs for commodities and upcoming inflation in the market.There are not many deals to be had in my core market but more in the suburban to rural areas.For class A core market product most definitely CAPS have gone lower and demand is higher.Developers for class A space aren't stupid.The ones I have had meetings with are in a holding pattern to time the market just right to build the ground up development.They are waiting for more liquidity and better terms to build and more pent up demand to lease up phases of their project faster.If they started building too much product right now it would impede their balance sheets too much as a company.Typical developers build 250 to 300 units at a time in my area and map out 2 to 3 sites in the area for phases 1,2,and 3 built over a 5 year horizon.So I wouldn't get to overexcited.

i've heard horror stories where sellers like this situation are emotionally attached, put up a fight, trashing the place at the end of the rental term..and then your house that needs no work and is beautifully updated has put you in the red

- And what types of red flags should I watch out for when researching the property.

Their home is underwater (bought for 500k+ in '05, recent comps price it at 141k-200k).Here are additional details:-Current on payments, next payment due early next month, cannot make February payment because of engineering fee and temporary housing costs (family is staying at a hotel)-Both spouses have excellent credit, high 700’s to 800-Lender is BoA, outstanding balance on loan is 315k on fixed loan with 10 years left -House is red tagged by city, city requires engineer to do soil samples and analyze hillside risk post-landslide in order release the red tag status-Filed a natural disaster forbearance to suspend the payment-Filed claim request secondary to homeowners insurance denying the claim -Preliminary report by geotechnical engineer estimates 80k-200k to repair and install proper drainage to hillside adjacent to house-Property repairs estimated to be around 10k-Property damage:o Carpet o A couple windowso Dry Wallo Mold—water pooling from the back door, no proper dry out has been done (probably much more additional work/costs on top of original homeowner 10k estimate)They're thinking about filing for bankruptcy and foreclosing on the home.

The Late Friday or the weekend is the best time to place the signs, and right off the highway at the "NO TURN ON RED" Sign.

OK, so now the conversation just got extra interesting...You're thinking that bigger players will come in with their billion-dollar funds and just start buying in bulk?

Now I'm sure that this has red flags all over it, but is anything like this feasible?

If it's the whole alley, that's a big red flag for us that the people who live around there don't care for their surroundings.

Did they give you the option of closing at 4.8%RESPA(Real Estate Settlement Procedures ACT) got revamped last year and has caused many delays on many loans because of all the red tape that has to be complied with.