The margins are simply much thinner and you can no longer just rely on loss mitigation (savings vs. costs) for your justifications.The truth is banks do not want the product, but the supply and demand remains askew and as long as it does, short sales are necessary evil for lenders.Originally posted by Tom Kitas: How does anyone get the bank to approve this from the prospective of the A seller?

The "expert" that drafted the residential lease that I use also supplied me with a separate lease that covers garages.

Your going to need to raise most of your capital through old fashioned fundraising and possibly through community grants (local goverment, or HUD).

Freedom soft looks good on paper but in reality it will never replace good old fashion hard work and due diligence.

I've also learned Realty Trac also supplies this data and they offer a free 7-day trial membership.

With the theft of buyers from future periods and the fact distressed properties continue to be a problem, your left with a higher supply which means prices will fall.So when you factor in all the above, the results are that pricing from the previous periods have to catch up with the supply-demand curve which it eventually will.

Again, you seem to be the only one to bring attention to such things, like it's an opportunity of some kind, even after I pointed out that you made a good point concerning the self employment taxes.May be next time you'll give some consideration to HOW you bring up your point, perhaps in a less argumentitive or bulegerant fashion, the tone used goes a long way too.

Since we can probably benefit from having a larger money supply, right?

Especially galvanized supply pipe and lead drain pipe.

Someone's opinion of the ARV may be subjective, but the ARV (given a small range of error) is set by supply and demand.Good investors know what the ARV of their investments are...banks and listing agents rarely know, because they rarely care......if you think that there are no investors consulting with the banks for investor insight, think again.