It's similar to being a normal landlord, but the person who is hoping to buy that house will probably treat it better and frequently is responsible for all maintenance so it can be a lot less work for you.

Hope the abode is treating you and your family well.Short sales purchases are actually notorious for being an absolute time-suck.  

Only a fool tries to paint with a brush so wide that they feel the need to treat all 3 the same.

After the way previous home owners have been treated - they are now or have already lost their home - no one is interested in buying a home any more.

The ground needs to be treated in the area and any leaking roofs etc needs to be corrected.

Just treat it as a rental on your taxes, the IRS and your underwriter are probably not family discussing you over dinner.

The percent of profit sharing is irrelevant.Other than your annual contribution, your IRA must be treated as a completely separate entity from your personal assets.Jeff

For example purposes, let's assume you are purchasing for $100,000.75% LTV =100,000 * 75% = 75,0004points = .04 * 75,000 = 3,00015% interest = 75,000 * .15 = 11,250monthly payment = 11,250/12 = 937.50This assumes the lender treats value as purchase amount and the house would at least appraise for purchase amount.

I believe just to treat everyone how you would want to be treated.

All these sites usualy will take 10 or 20 comps add them up and then divide and give a guesstimate, it si very easy to fool this system, some investors will hide the price, others will pay more on transfer tax fees (if it was in the MLS it whas supposed to have been reported by listing agent and sometimes that is wrong) ther are counties that allow for double tax stamps if you say you simply whant to pay it, county will charge more and no one cares and in N.Y. there are a lot of CO OPS, this will be treated differntly than FEE SIMPLE.You have asked the write question, now go to the source for answears, it will take a little time but you must know this, remember whos money is at stake.