Also remember one more think this kind of attorneys are usually involved in debt settlements and and they might be able to proceed with yuor deficiency judgment settelement and save you thousands for fraction of cost.Again this is only my opinion and my and my partners experience with this issues.I always try to tell people standing before decision to proceed with short sale or not to take a blank paper, divide it in half and on one half just write scenario what will happen when you will let it go to the foreclosure with all concequences and financial loss and what will happen 6-12 months from now with you and your family and at the other half what will happen when you proceed and close on short sale and how it will affect your life in your next 6-12 months.If you don't know usual foreclosure concequenses, just let me know and I can get you free foreclosure vs short sale list FREE.

If there's a big loss, like the furnace, he puts in a fraction of the loss.

In my experience, it is not uncommon to see a large building violation lien which costs a fraction of the line to fix.

Hi David,My question would be are the 42 condo like units part of a fractional development or does the 42 units make up the whole complex??

In the view of things from the vantage point of my small fraction of the universe, the truth is a bit of @Adam Johnson, a bit of @James Wise with a cameo by @Mindy Jensen.If I am meeting a real estate agent for the first time, I will glance over - and in - their car, just as I would a prospective tenant (it's almost subconscious now).  

Although I've been investing since 1999, I've only managed to build my portfolio to a fraction of what I hoped I would have by now.  

To understand why Japan and Europe are implementing negative interest rates and why other Western nations are contemplating it (including the Fed) is a lengthy boring discussion on the effects of credit in a Fractional Reserve banking system. 

In the beginning he would send me statements, showing rents collected, then all these crazy expenses against the income, so at the end of the day, my 25% profit share was always a small fraction of the rent, & each time I had to call & plead for it.

I have some fractional deals I have that worked just fine, there just more complicated.  

And take South side of Chicago for example.. there are literally thousands of vacant MF buildings.. that you can buy for a fraction of what they would cost to rebuild.