Tim - They also surpassed the USA as the largest consumer of cars this year.

I developed my own, but boy it took forever to get it just the right way.I'll check out my competition.CameronP.S.

it paid for them to inflate values, hence the crooks are barely hanging on now... what is nice about RE is that everything is stored for future reference and sooner or later all of the crooks will have to pay for their dirty deeds... you can run, but you cannot hide... forever!!!

It is also very difficult and time-consuming, as I understand, to evict a non-paying tenant in nyc.So, can anyone suggest some good areas that are relatively close to nyc that I could invest in?

Today, we are consumers.

It was a section 8 tenant who lived there for 4 years and I thought she would stay forever.

CW, I just added to my disclosure a statement along the lines of "Homeowner understands they must vacate the property at least 48 hours prior to scheduled closing"Not sure how effective it will be, but at least I got it in writing they understand they aren't living there rent free forever.

Be careful of who you choose but listen to his/her advice.You are much better off than a lot of consumers out there.Good Luck.

I know you can go through public records and look for liens but that can be pretty time consuming for the amount of houses you need to go through.Any ideas on these cherry picking strategies or thoughts on how to make our preforeclosure searches more efficient?

Going back and forth with lots of pieces of paper or pages of documents in email is quite wasteful and time consuming IMO - but for HUD and certain other types of REO, that is what the listing requires (from what I have seen).