While previous offers were rejected, this latest proposal has prompted the company to reassess its options.In conjunction with these closures, Seven & I has announced a $520 million sale-leaseback transaction involving several 7-Eleven locations and plans to create a spinoff for its non-convenience store operations.

Most of the leads you generate via cold calls, social media, and other marketing efforts won't transact or even meet with you for some time.Baseball players take dozens of swings in batting practice to prep for just 2-3 good pitches they'll see come gametime.

Last year, I worked on a short-sale transaction from the sales side while the buyer had an agent.

The key factor is ensuring you have proper documentation to support all the transactions, deductions, and income reported.

If major issues or concerns are discovered, provide detailed information to the seller and either negotiate a discounted price or consider walking away from the deal.Due diligence is the backbone of successful real estate transactions.

If you did not use one - unfortunately its an expensive lesson learned that in real estate transactions this is why you use the paid experts.

You would go chasing REO owned homes as individual investor asking asset managers to sell one to you, but at the same time banks were selling them in batches of tens of thousands per transaction, to  investors who put money together and formed companies that had direct contact with the banks that foreclosed on those homes. 

We work transaction-based deals with a commercial portfolio loan secured against our assets. 

But, you also have no online reviews from those 13 transactions - so what does that tell you? 

The structure of the transaction is much more important than is generally recognized.