Hello and welcome to this site William! 

If they say they can't because the sale date is sooner, that is a different problem.

You will find there is a lot of real estate investors from southeast louisiana on the site.

Rentometer.com is the best resource that I have found to date to locate market rents.

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I have had some servicers accept a signed/dated letter from the homeowner declining the modification and I have also had some who force the 3 month trial to go by without any modified payments received THEN they’ll go into short sale.

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@Ian Ippolito - Thanks - I just went back to your site, where the guides and background reading are the clearest I've found on the web, and immensely helpful.