Can one take any of them at face value or is this auctioning business the banks are doing just some way of shifting the bank's resources for some derivative or something?

I see hosts all the time advertising their 4 or 5 bedrooms and the comments are almost always 'I don't want to share with that many people, especially if we're all working different shifts.' 

Pinnacle had also informed investors of plans to shift operations to other cities under a new name.

I pulled the old shelves, rolled the back and side walls, put in the new shelves and went home.The next day she calls my partner (she really didn't like calling me, he was a comparitive pushover) and said the pantry was still nasty.He said he'd come over that night but postponed it because I was out of town, so we shifted it to the next night.

I think we will see a major shift away from the standard 6% commission we see today, mainly because with all the resources and information available today, people are realizing that selling a house yourself isn't all that complicated.  

And you have cash in your pocket each shift. 3) Home Depot/Lowes...

I think we saw a shift in marketing approach perhaps a year or two ago as property values were being ignored or diminished for the sake of cashflow.

If you have the maneuvering room, I'd put in one of the seamless, 1-piece tub/shower units.

That doesn't mean that LLCs are not useful and do not add additional layers of protection and fee shifting aspects.

As for laws, well those vary just about everywhere you go, though at least Madrid is working on cohesive federal regulation for short-term rentals (whereas that will never happen in the States), but I completely agree with your point on the good deals in high-crime ghettos angle - the concept of "ghetto" as it is in the States just does NOT exist in Spain, and personally I find that a much easier thing to work with in terms of identifying path-of-progress opportunities.Our company offers a few different things, but right now we're working on rebuilding our property management division on the Costa del Sol, targeting purely vacation and short-term rentals (we sold this division last year when we got a tempting offer and knew that pending regulation was going to greatly shift the marketplace).