Whose wife is pretty darn attractive herself.

see what I mean, not so attractive is it?

Short sale transaction is about to get it correctly done and especcialy negotiated to the amount so it will be attractive to resale in this market.

Then I will be able to use this track record to attract more investors for larger deals in future. 

Hello BP,If I find a good deal on a large apartment complex, but don't have the money for the downpayment ($500-700k), what kind of product or offer can I structure to talk about with friends and family who might want...

I know you'll encounter some of this with any rental, but I don't think it's a stretch to think that a slightly more expensive units will attract less-stressful tenants.

In these cases, the specific sector was over-inflated and collapsed as faulty - maybe even fraudulent financial vehicles and/or practices were introduced to suck even more money out of the sector as it heated up.Just because the dot com sector eventually swallowed reality and fixed its fundamentals on value products/services, the energy sector resolved in the courts, and the housing sector flushed out its overly speculative practices (many of which were really bank-driven, primarily as loans issued to folks who had no business buying housing - and toxic mortgage packages created with weird names and no vehicle history to attract investments thus made with no due diligence and no 3rd party oversight - which took unprecedented government intervention and bailout across many sectors to fix), doesn't mean that the next sector downturn trigger doesn't lurk out there.What some call creativity or innovation is really just greed masked in packages so new and weird that due diligence is nearly impossible.  

(I'm a licensed agent and a wholesaler) I know there is an attraction to wholesaling for those new to real estate, because of the common myth that you don't need capital to get started.

But I do want to invest in real estate, and I'm eager to learn from those willing to offer advice.The most attractive option we've got currently involves a family member.

Remove the random shutters on the one window.Relocate the house numbers to reinforce the main entrance and treat them as an accent graphic, vertically of horizontally as @Marcia Maynard suggested.Make an effort to carve out an area of the lawn to identify the main entrance with landscaping that leads your eye up to it.