In all walks of life there are people that will be "sneaky" try to do better, then when they fail, of course they will blame you.SO what do you do?

He sells it, pays the mortgage off, and walks away with 15 grand.

Sit down with the banker and hand them a copy of your reports and have them walk through it with you.

It's the only "there" that fits, so I just stuck with it.

IMO most people, particularly when they're being kept awake, can tell the direction from which the annoyance is coming.Park out front one night, maybe even walk around a bit, (don't be a peeping tom!)

I have gone to most of my closing tables and walked away with a check as I bought the property (granted I have a bigger loan, but now have rehab cash).My last deal, currently under way, they are willing to pay rehab (if it appraises right as per above), but I must provide receipts for rehab and they will reimburse me.See the link in this REO forum:http://forums.biggerpockets.com/viewtopic.php?

All I have to is screen them and pick through the one's that are motivated enough to fit my buying criteria.

All I walked away with was that it's a clever and convoluted formula, and basically that loans can be very evil, but obviously there's not always a way to get around them.

At that point I would have been happy to sell them the property for around 100K profit and walk away.

Fitting a foundation under a house is much harder than building a house on a foundation.