I was half assing it, treating it like a hobby and not a business.

This has enabled me to insist on being treated by attorneys, their staff and the legal community as a peer and NOT as a vendor.

Depending on the size of area you are in there might only be a handful of agents that do short sales, piggybacking on J Scott's idea, call them up, introduce yourself and treat them to lunch.

A smaller number of lenders have not rejected this option and claim this can be treated as any other residential fourplex, but nays have definitely outweighed yays so far which makes me a little concerned.

I want to do my buissness the right way and treat people fair.

Should I just treat the net amount received as my "gross rent", and then deduct all of my expenses from this gross rent?

Oh yeah, with their chocolate shake.

That is how I treat others that do not have the expertise I do in some areas.

This is going to be a home where I am going to live but I have always thought of a house as a potential cash flow investment and so I will treat it as though I am paying myself rent, running the same metrics I would if I was renting to a third party.

I think ODU is little too expensive now. and being an ODU graduate i've seen how bad they treat those houses.