An example is a doctor or lawyer who make sufficient income but have a lot of write offs, and/or a business owner who has sufficient income but lost some spec lots during the real estate meltdown and has foreclosures on his credit.

I guess because all the details got lost in the mass sell.I was able to pass along the details I found on the County Auditor site to my mortgage broker.

We lost several days, and several dollars, while this work was completed, but we felt that we had to handle this for the future owners.

Ok, so I purchased just under 6 acres that was about to be lost by the owners to back taxes.

I took the above as meaning you thought the OP was afraid of the tenants, he only stated he was afraid of lost income, lol.

In the meantime, you may have lost your second best prospect.

I swear I was truly lost but feel I am found especially with everyone's thorough explanations.

Could not get anything done, held me at arms length, couldn’t get a hold of the guy, and now I have lost my job and requested the money back.

We were eventually successful, however it took 18 days for us to get Flipkey to agree to get the seller's approval to transfer the funds.So I lost a lot of hair last month as we worked through what seemed to be one roadblock after another.  

Many folks lost their shirts in 2008 by doing that.