If they're truly sophisticated, they'd look at a Yr 1 guaranty and conclude: "Ok, that's a nice little add-on of little value, since the chance of anything happening in Year 1 are remote, at best, but I'll take it, fine, and the other company I talked to didn't offer it".If industry players are so worried about these guarantees, it follows that many buyers are not in fact sophisticated.

I would suggest telling them you are a player in their market and you should meet for lunch to see how you can work together to make more coin in 2012.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/foreclosures-draw-private-equity-u-150127753.htmlmost of you probably already heard of this in the past months and it looks like it's going to happen pretty soon. as a newbie in REI, I'd like to hear what the experienced player's opinion on this. couple of questions I can think of. 1.

Look for the major Private Equity/REIT players to announce BIG Residential REO take downs over the next few months.

I soon learned that in order for a neighborhood to be revitalized, eventually all of the players - residents, businesses and ESPECIALLY the local government - will need to be on board.IMO, you can tackle this from two angles:Pull together the local government, businesses and Investors (don't try and go this alone.

I did a quick search on a mortgage forum I belong to for HELOCS and both TD and US bank showed up as players.

(Obvious I don't know your taxable income to make that call.)If you withdraw, you do have alot more flexibility investing with non-qualified funds, such as optimizing with leverage and having access to much better financing terms/rates, that can give you a substantially higher ROI than you might achieve in a retirement account.By pulling funds from the IRA/401K, you have also walked out of the casino of guessing on current vs future tax rates (with $100 trillion of federal liabilities, tax rates are quite conceivably going UP).

Do we really want the government intervening in the market and favoring some players over others?

Right now i don't know much about commercial properties here in central Ohio but i know their are alot of empty of them here and one would think there has to be a way to make alot of money specially on the west side of columbus cause a new holly wood casino just open this last year.

Trying not to get caught up in analysis paralysis, but feel I would be better situated to go through a deal with minimal risk if I have my players in place.