It will probably take them some time to track down new mortgage owner if no assignment was recorded. 

Learn how to get deals under contract so you can assign them to cash buyer. 3.

In these cases, the appraiser will indicate he/she was not able to access the property and their value assigned is reflective of a lack of access. 

Do not pay it off, buy an assignment of the debt to you, so that you become the person that debt is now owed to. 

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The assignment of a contract in itself to an interested buyer seems to be legal.  

You probably won't be able to rent to vacationers or families but if someone is coming for a temporary assignment and isn't to squeamish I'm sure you could do it that way.

@Natalie Vane   well let me see I have owned 3 RE brokerages that were all 7 0 to 80% femalethe top producing agents in our markets are female mainly a few males but mostly female.When I was active in buying distressed assets  ( guess you can call it wholesaling)  I only worked NOD's... and my specialty was to buy them 1 to 3 days before the sale. .( we had plenty of cash we killed the no cash folks that tried to assign contracts etc.. )so I had 3 teams all mixed one male one female.. they went to the door together..

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Hey BP family, Question of the day is how much is a good assignment fee for a commercial or multi unit property?