Guess what - I was then eligible to buy a $500,000 piece of property using an FHA loan just 15 months after my initial purchase, in spite of only having about $30-$40K liquid!

Lisa, In spite of your bad experience this time, there are many decent people who rent.  

Turning the defaults back to performing,, ETC, ETCHe has a qualified staff, in spite of that he has to be hands onIf it is too good to be true it is......

The reason that I am conservative, and not liberal (if labels must be applied) is that, in spite of the tough love that conservative principles exude at times, the conservative will teach the man, thus allowing him more freedom and success than anyone could ever want, and a liberal's first instinct, imo, would be to give him the fish (from my pile) and encourage him to do just whatever feels good that day.

@Steve Babiak  In spite of my best (and persistent!) 

In spite of how the shows make it look, rehabbing properties is hard to learn if you have no experience in construction.

Inspite of this, he says, we should put in an offer for 600K.How bad is the market?

I'm sure there are still plenty out there who lend to individuals in spite of the law.

In spite of the hours, I am not interested in changing careers as great as some of the guests on the BP podcasts make their work sound.

In spite of what I can find myself on the internet, it seems that RE agents are also privy to info like foreclosures and in particular CMA info that I can't get as a layman.