Granted some hard money lenders will not want to do such a deal as it means you as the borrower is more likely to lose control of the project.John Corey

Rate, term, payment, skipping payments, early pay off discounts, right to substitute, right to subordinate and other aspects.In any negotiation you have to recognize when you are losing the other side.

Maybe everyone has large checks or maybe only 1-2.If people could easily make very significant amounts from little work more would jump in, bid the deals down and we would see lower returns.

Many banks are offering shallow to no discount on REO.I expect that to change as their inventories increase and BofA loses some of its hold on the other banks.

The debt release amount will be considered money recieved by them and they will have to repay the govt or lose some current benifet.

The prices could easily drop over the winter as the housing bust continues.

Nephets,You already own them and they are not losing money as a group, so I would just keep them.

The title problem requiring an attorney sounds like something that the title company can clear up easily without much money if any at all.

Something that they will lose if they fail to keep up with the payment.

If you owned the site you could charge for the advertising.I developed a database taht could easily handle this while in college. sadliy i lost the server i stored the code on due to disk failures.but a standard sql database should be more then adiqute to handle such a task.question is who would mantian that its content is standardisd.