He wants to lock it up under contract before April 30th and close right before June 30th so he can get the tax credit.

Again, as an agent I'm telling you MOST agents will be thrilled to have someone handle their short sale which they don't want to do, to have a cash offer in the package to give maximum leverage when dealing with the bank, and have a secured listing that is approved and ready to go for the C buyer and have it locked up at 3% on their end.

If your mortgage is not locked in you can find yourself in a severely cash starved situation.The news gets better with time.

I would lock in as many term years as possible (30 is typically the max).

I just locked up a 16 unit apartment building today.

AND they were 13-14 year old kids......After some Q&A with them it seems that one of them the day before had managed to break off the side door knob that had the lock box on it.

The locks are changed and the homeowner no longer has access to the property.

But it's in a great neighborhood that my investor would be all over if I can lock this down somehow!

These sellers don't seem to want me locking them into anything at all, but of course I'll give it a shot when I know more.

Amazing device, I don't own one, but I used one for about a month.