So if you want a 5% loan, you can keep negotiating from 5.5% on knowing you most likely won't be sent to auction.The point being, according to the group, that if you are renting the house while you're having a forensic loan audit on, you can keep negotiating the loan mod for months and collect rent until you finally accept the new terms.

No, a SA is NOT a pet, and I don't know if a refundable deposit can be collected in advance.

If those APIs were available to feed developers that data through a secured web service, and any legal issues were already ironed out, I assume zillow, cyberhomes, etc... would already have that built in.

Can you be given a set of data, figure out what is relevant and make a decision you CAN live with?

Can't Countrywide just collect from the insurance company instead of entertaining a short sale arrangement?

If you do so, the collected rent plus collected utilities, less actual utilities due, will be delivered to youa.

I've tried gifts but it didn't amount to squat, although I have one tenant I bring over free fast-food coupons from the newspaper when I go by to collect rent.

contentid=536917222&contenttype=EDITORIAL&agency=CommerceI understand in MN Loan Mod. can't collect up front fee and must have loan broker license.

Sitting in an office collecting a salary equivalent of $35/hour for 40 hours a week compared to working 10 hours to put together a $5k assignment fee.

If they leave the tenant there, they at least collect some rent, and maybe avoid some of those costs.