Lease the place.You need to speak to your attorney, there are other ways but your credit and the due on sale will always be a concern, of sorts, until that loan is paid off.Best solution, find a willing and able buyer.BTW, Welcome to BP!

As a Realtor, one would be working and spending time, gas and tolls showing properties and shooting emails/texts and the customer is not willing to sign a representation agreement and become a CLIENT.

In almost every case the bank will pay the property taxes because it will come before the 1st mortgage and stick around even after foreclosure.The listing agent needs to include the $70k as a HUD expense for the short sale, or call the Customer Service Department and request they pay off the taxes.The listing agent is probably misguiding their client, because the property tax is part of the short sale so the seller should not be accepting reponsibility for the tax lien just by accepting your offer.

I'll try VM options later to test whether there is really a difference, but I'm determined to go with a service at first (IOW, please don't tell me to use GV and send everything to VM ;)I''ve researched a bunch of different services, but actual recommendations from real customers in our business are hard to come by.So, if you've used an answering service to field calls for your business would care to share your experience (good or bad), I'd love to hear it.My plan is to have the AS collect very basic info at first, basically asking for name, contact info and the address of the property so that I can do some research and call them back ASAP.So what's the skinny on answering services?

Here is one of our kitchens we did in Chicago. This was a 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bath house with an attached 2 car garage. It took us about 5 months close to close on this house.

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That is why I started this post to begin with, to be sure I was seeing things clearly so I was not forced to back out of a deal because it was not good enough to attract quality end buyers.I have to start someplace, and with little capital or experience wholesaling seemed like the logical solution.

Manny - the more I think about your opportunity, the more I think (at least in part) that your solution might very well start politically.Here's my idea: meet up with someone in the local political spotlight.

In tax lien investing, the laws, rules, customs and nuances of proceedure for the given state are the critical pieces of the puzzle.

She is pretty motivated to find a solution.

I've heard and read negative things about hudzu customer service, but isn't this laws against blatant false advertisement?