Your lawyer needs to look over the trust documents to keep you safe but the time table is short in getting this done if the trust is unencumbered.

. - let's not use data that is 10 years old, especially since that pre-dates "fracking" for natural gas.Go to PDF page 15 of this next link (page 7 based on the table of contents that has preface etc):http://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/fe/pdf/fe_lng.pdfSure, prices will go up, but nothing like those using oil ...

If no offers are on the table, then they will accept a 95% net of list price typically.

It was weird to see a seller at the table.

Make sure you are dealing with a broker who understands multifamily and specializes in it.If you just use a regular broker/agent that is not a specialist you can leave money on the table and get caught up in a bad deal.You need to define a good deal??

J Scott, I hope you don't mind but, basically I took your table and altered it a bit to fit my needs and used data I researched in my area.

It's all kind of "kitchen table closings" if you will.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/07/refinancing_mortgage.asp#axzz2H8V7K2FBI built an amortization table to corroborate his "net worth" numbers but there are 2 conceptual issues I need further elaboration on.1.

Have you talked to lenders to find out exactly how much capital you will need to bring to the table?

But, out of curiosity, I was thinking about removing the graphs and table but posting a simplified summary of my research in the forum to see how much traffic it receives.