I imagine the key to keeping the two activities separate is to document, document, document.

Can't imagine not paying rent for 3 years.

I can't imagine this occurring given the seller has filed 13.

I would suspect there would be some competition to get it as well or a very motivated seller that has no time for marketing.I imagine if you have a good track record and have found a good source of private money it might be possible to finance a deal at 100%, but probably most of the time you wouldn't want to because you won't need to.

As you might imagine this is EXTREMELY frustrating.

I imagine all the answers to most of the questions we could ever ask are here somewhere, just have to find them...:)

I imagine we could find a maid service there who is used to doing quick turnovers.What about the simple task of passing over keys to each rental?

If they are, I then follow up by phone and explain the process and email them literature on how we successfully purchase short sales.Also, be sure if you are the listing agent AND buyer you have a complete disclosure somewhere in your contracts that you'll be making profit and commission.

I can't imagine what it would take in CA.

I imagine one simple mistake could put her into the 500's.It would depend on why the score is so low.