The list of people that must be notified include, the lender that has accepted the short sale and the lender supplying the financing for your buyer....."".....As part of the law, a "short sale flipper" is defined as a person who has a house under contract to sell before they actually own it, AND the second transaction closes with-in 14 days of the short sale transaction.

Money is dear right now so everyone is competing for the same supply.

Even if there are these vast untapped oil supplies that could fuel the world for thousands of years, it's still not environmentally feasible to do so.

A lot of the people laid off will eventually start new businesses and the money supply will eventually loosen up some.

Stick with the big box or a supply house with some buying power.

Just in case, the same person had 1st and 2nd line, I supplied a backup to the backup.

There is an endless supply of motivated sellers especially in Chicago.

However, I found that Hotpads.com is a pretty solid source as well.Typically I combine the data on a basic supply and demand graph.

You'll have to think up another reason to give, other than you are hoping to steal their customers.Maybe fish and wildlife, or Customs, or somebody keeps track of where boats are docked and has a mailing list.You could also place fliers under car windshields in the marina parking lots (which will really tick off the marina owner.)Posters at marine supply shops might be useful.Boat sales yards might be interested in telling their customers about your offer.

If you have a property that is located in an area where vandalism is the sport of the day, you can't really tie a set reserve to any index, like property value or rents, it will have to come from experience with that property.Being in a financial positiomn to cover any uninsured damage is the goal, if you can do that from day one without a "sinking fund" startegy, all well and good, but if you can't, I suggest you set aside all that you can initially and establish your reserve as quiclkly as you can (hopefully before your fisrt lease is over).What you need to assess is the risk of wear and tear as well as damage that is uninsurable for each property and then assess the risk in light of the probability of losses occuring at or near the same time on other properties.Never think that since you have quality "maintenance free" properties in great locations that you won't have any expense in the first or first few years.