The whole short sale process is not all that complex, if you know what your doing and are very persistand and patient. yes, It can take many weeks, if not months.Originally posted by "**********":What is your time worth?

Definitely be patient for the market to turn around.

It also taught me to be patient and look for the rigt investment.

Like James and the others have said, be more patient and protect that money of yours.

You must be a patient person.

You, like others, would like improved profiles, and we are working on it.As you know, given your experience in the computer biz, things don't happen instantly, and if you can remain patient, I think you will be quite pleased with what we have planned for the site.Thanks again,

Recently a patient of my father's offered to get him involved in flipping, however it turned out the time involved was too much, instead the offered deferred to me.

They can be slow to respond, so be patient.

Even with his help, it would take at least a year (probably two) to get something set up that would allow me to pool non-acredited investors.If you stick with acredited investors or, better yet, sophisticated investors, you can get going faster since the SEC assumes that those investors know enough to protect themselves.As John pointed out, if I go that route, don't expect to hear much from me about it.Aside from all the set up, there is a lot of paper that needs to be generated, stored. reported and audited just to prove that you aren't cheating a 90 year old alzheimers patient out of her life's savings.

So if the opportuninty presents its self I'm ready to go.I'm going to build a career out of RE, I'm just being patient at the moment.