the savvy wholesaler/investor who is educated and knows what they are doing has bigger and better means to get what the owner and agent want. it's a matter of attempting to thwart the agent who doesn't see the bigger picture.

The same house with $25k repairs or more falls short and will prob thwart investors.

If you have to go through a rezoning, this can be real process that is thwart with massive amounts of risk/potential roadblocks.

And, about the only action that has ever thwarted such, a war economy.

Otherwise, expect that you can’t show it and can’t get a good offer, thwarting your sale attempts.

Banks are well aware of this and that's why they do everything they can to thwart wholesaling for REOs and short sales.

We could also make a massive real tax cut simply by implementing a true aggressive policy of oil productions, drilling, shale, etc approve everything and watch the oil bubble deflate, after all gas was only $1.75 gallon a few years ago, talk about putting money in pockets - stimulating jobs etc with new spending.on and on we could go - it's not difficult.Productivity keeps improving.Debt per Capita - Even Germany has a higher debt per capita and as a % of GDP.Remove some of the current hindrances and watch our economy grow.Rich, you and I both know that even the shadow inventory will one day, suddenly disappear, before anyone knows it, when the pent up demand starts working again.We are holding ourselves back with wasted spending, rules that thwart bussiness, anti profit rules, etc.

However, I think I would acknowledge that in the inital conversations and do what I had to to thwart that from happening as much as I could.

I was thwarted on several of the short sales I attempted though (bank appraisal came in high so the contract price I had signed, they wouldn’t sell for.

Couldn't the "ousting" be thwarted by adding in a clause within the joint venture agreement?