Solera National Bank and Titan Bank can open accounts online, fully understand these structures, and generally offer checking accounts without large minimum balance requirements or monthly maintenance fees.

They do have national speakers who will try to sell you a course, but just leave your wallet at home and bring your biz cards for networking. 

That isn't on the National Code Book but on the the NFPA 72 (Which stands for National Fire Alarm and Signaling code) has a requirement that smokes have to be installed inside each bedroom (they say sleep rooms in case people transform other rooms into bedrooms) even for existing homes in addition to requiring them outside each sleeping area and then one on each level of the home that is a combo carbon/smoke (Additional smoke alarms are required for larger homes.)

OH is operating at a 5.2% unemployment rate while the national average is 5.5% unemployment rate.

I have been using Fidelity National Home Warranty for my personal and rental properties for the past three years and can tell you that I never had any issues with them.

Special provisions are allowed for short sales, selling a note at a loss is a loss.If that investor has purchased notes from that lender before that would be a plus, but if it's a national note holder they are generally not interested.If the investor is willing to go in at the unpaid balance, just make a new loan and pay that one off.A big factor is how far under water the house is, if it's not to far gone there could be other options to sell to a buy and hold type investor if it could cash flow and they might wait for appreciation.

Originally posted by Bill Gulley: Brian, net listings, it's illegal in all states as far as I know, it's an issue with the code of ethics nationally.

It is a rapidly shrinking market, about 10-20% the volume it used to be, with established, experienced regional and national players already in place.

Those of us in MA need to very selective of what advice we follow on a national forum such as this.

Those lenders do not care about race, sex, national origin, religion, or anything else.