In actuality the bill is designed to keep our economy from driving off of a cliff.

Thomas Lucier's books have many included contracts for affordable prices.Foreclosure overview books by Peter Conti and David have won New York Times bestseller awards, and provide great information about the process and also give you scripts so you know how to approach homeowners.Hope that helps.

:whistle1: :whistle1: :whistle1: :whistle1: :idea: :mrgreen: Since it hasn't reached the venerable heights of stickyhood, :cry: maybe another designation is appropriate, for those threads that have a certain level of value, just not quite to that supreme degree.

Its a graph from Credit Sussie.http://bubbleinfo.squarespace.com/journal/2008/6/7/neg-am-reset-update.htmlYou can see one peak of Neg Am loans approaching by the end of this year but then a bigger peak in Oct.This is just with one company, but you can imagine the peaks are similar throughout the entire industry.Most were 3 -5 year adjustment periods.So if a good portion of these loans were done 04-07 the wrath is really just begining for foreclosures.Unless the government steps in and works out rates and reduces prinsicpals.

I'm not going to tell you or your brother what to do, just know that approaching anyhing - including relationships - from an attitude of "scarcity" is going to hurt you.Tim

There simply is no cookie cutter approach," cautions Dorkin.

(I'm cautiously optimistic that it would approach the higher end.)The wide range is because I don't know how to account for the enclosed garage.

We might be buying a house very soon (have an offer in) and I am still not sure how to approach this problem.

You may find that sometimes the prices differ dramatically, not because of inferior materials or labor, but because one contractor is using a different approach to the job.

Approaching hard money lenders.