With the tougher lending guidelines and downpayment requirements you could sell your home several times, but never close due to unqualified buyers.It is temping to try to go it alone because you want to try to save the money, but in this market you will probably find you didn't save anything and may eventually will list it with an agent or rent it out if it has sold from your efforts.

I happened to be looking for a copy of it for a friend and noted a bunch of used copies on B&N's website this past weekend.

If someone could get in on one of these deals with me, I will do all the work on the place and give the lucky investor ~50% of the profit off the place once sold.

They aren't sold, they're issued by the bank to those who pay for them and sold to an exit buyer ata % off face value the same as an mtn.

We did all the work ourselves I bought it for $14,000. in a real high end park and I turned around and sold it for $34,000.

I know they look at the houses that sold in the past, etc. but is there anything esle specific that they do?

You can request a copy of the fax transmittal sheet, but without real hard work by the seller or the listing agent, it's going no where.

I got lucky and bought a home in San Fran in 1995 and sold it for more than double in 2000.

In the past they have said it was for the appraisal, so this time around I stated they needed to provide us with a copy of the appraisal if the client/realtor are paying for it.

He would pay me back as soon as he sold some of his other assets (other real estate, toys, etc).