Not good, but better than the alternative below.If they were all thrown out over a short period of time, demand for rental property, and rents, would skyrocket as too many homes would be sitting vacant not available for anybody to reside in.

Anyone who does know, please feel free to chime in on ANY alternative to our fiat currency.

Take my word for it...u will always be on the sidelines if u think too much....this is a quick numbers game.....run the numbers and make up your mind either way :-Jeff....as they say..no pain..no gain...what are the alternatives?

I did not mean to offend I was just giving an alternative.

Assuming they don't sell the note as an alternative, I mean.

An alternative to what JScott mentioned is the have them commit a non-trivial amount of money that is hard immediately if they are serious.

This isn't quite a hypothetical question, but I'll keep it general in nature.I've noticed a few husband/wife teams (or couples in alternative relationships) where both are real estate professionals.

His alternatives are few...traditional sale means cash out of pocket which the seller probably doesn't have, a short sale which half result in a foreclosure anyway...they go into foreclosure and take the "atomic bomb" FICO hit, or...they assign the payment.An unsellable house to a probably unloanable buyer.

Our private equity fund should ramp up quite a bit this year so hopefully that will be the fuel for the increase.

NY has a program called HEP or HIP which assists low income people with paying for fuel costs.