Find a number you wont lose sleep over, sell it to the first person whos well qualified and move onto the next one.

We would be crushed if we had to short sale the home and wife credit get destroyed - hope there are solutions to this story possibly.

It dosent matter what you work out with the seller, those two things wont just go away no matter how you wrap up the deal or how pretty you make it sound with land contracts and property trust...There are no loop holes when money is do...Thats the reality without all the big words and red tape...If this financially makes sense for you and your family then go for it, i think its a great deal if you work it right...All just my opion...

there are different ways to "interview" the landlord.. you can ask if they had washer and drier and match it with what they said. you can also ask how long they have been there, or just things that friends and "companies" wont know. there are tons of "trip" questions.

You wont succeed through a shortsale, the shortsale scenario is when the finance owed is more than the actual value.

You wont, i will.

What they don't know wont hurt them.Or you can box the thermostat up and control it yourself.Electric baseboard hear to the second floor?

id=117896796&authType=name&authToken=PdEy&invAcpt=&goback=.mid_I612265279*45_*1_*1_*1 And the comps must be in line with what a bank would value it for; "padding the price" wont fly.

If the property was destroyed and we received the 2 mil plus sell the land for 600k(assessed value), we could walk away with the investors very happy and the lender satisfied.

Lastly, regardless of what form of partnership we put in place I want to make sure that down the road we wont be hit with a reassessment for the property taxes, since that's a huge benefit to buying and holding in CA.If anyone has any experience in forming this type of partnership in CA any feedback would be greatly appreciated.