I've even asked ANY lib to read Malkins' book Culture of Corruption with HUNDREDS of footnotes documenting every thing she said and find one incorrect statement.

They will charge you a flat fee, a few hundred, and put the house on the MLS.

The bank or investor who owns the property wants the report to meet certain guidelines or controls such as comps within a 1/2 mile radius.In many cases though there might not be recent sales that close unless it is an urban market but many of these bpo's are in suburban to rural markets.So what usually happens is you go back and forth with QC who is an hourly paid employee for the mill and after putting in a ton of remarks it gets passed.From there the BPO mill puts everything in a nice little package and send of to their customer.I will try to make the rest of this post short but can take this much deeper in detail if anyone has interest.Usually from the time of ordering the BPO it will take a few weeks to get back to the bank.Banks use BPO mills because they do not have the time to locate agents all over the country.Instead they pay a certain amount per order to the mills and the mills pay a reduced fee to the brokers/agent completing them.There are hundreds of mills out there to work for as a broker/agent and you are an Independant Contractor cutting checks every 2 weeks to a month.With BPO's you will here these investor guru's touting these strategies that they will work and the BPO can come back in plus or minus ten percent which on a 400k property could be 440k or 360k which could be an 80k swing in value when the bank makes a decision.The reason you hear off and on information is because of the following.When the market was hot 5 to 6 years ago banks and mills had to beg brokers/agents to do bpo's.Most brokers and agents were doing many sales and didn't have time for them. sales and comps were easy to find.I could do a 24 hr exterior rush on a new subdivision home sale and get paid 130 to 150 bucks.

Furthermore, I'm about to drop a hundred grand into further training to increase those fees.

I have corrected hundreds of contracts drawn by attorneys and have had to call them and explain why they were not proper, and they changed their ways after other issues were explained, so they are human like everyone else.

That's why I'm curious if there's a reason I couldn't buy 4 properties with my name only on the title, then do the same with her.There's nearly a hundred lenders on the Homepath website, so there *should* be plenty to choose from.

(shrug) a new dishwasher is a couple hundred bucks and you can get a window AC for $125.I don't fuss over peanuts, figuring I'm going to have to do repairs, anyway.

I review hundreds of blogs, and I see the same mistakes over and over.

I have seen hundreds of discussions voicing frustration!

so far, i'm very pleased with their response time and level of customer service since i was new at this and had hundreds of questions.