this would be a great side-benefit for many of my friends who are employees of big companies2.

.- This situations get exacerbated in my 2006 situation because I am paying the mortgage and taxes without any occupancy and apparently without any tax benefit!

The essentially go in and tell the owner what to get rid of, move some furnture around to make it more apealing to the buyer.

Also, not sure if you mean this, but conventional lenders have a huge problem with doing double closes because the end buyer is essentially closing on the contract with you, but you are never really in title as the seller.

They made no effort to call us to get the information so we essentially are cold calling for the sale which sounds a lot like telemarketing to me.

It's called a 341 hearing and it is for the benefit of the creditors.

Rest assured, your Realtor gets NO BENEFIT from you putting more money down other than some assurance that you in fact can afford the place you're trying to buy.

Though I wouldn't be able to perform a full inspection, having an agent that looks at the property from the long term investment perspective instead of the short term commission perspective is a benefit that any investor can appreciate.

So, in effect, you could buy today and assign your contract before you actually close............but in any event, I would not advise you to get into any deal unless you were confident that you could close (ie: have the funds or resources to obtain financing), in case, essentially, you were unable to assign your contract to your satisfaction.

I'm a firm believer that if you dont put in to a system then you should by no means reap benefits from that same system.