Your risk of loss for that property decreases.

We also have a process that we're putting these buyers through which educates them as to how the program works before we will even consider them to view the home. 

However, Zillow is led by very forward thinking individuals, and I wonder if they are hedging their bets against the uncertain future of real estate agents by piloting their "Instant Offers" program.

Remember - FHA and VA are government programs, so they are more about fostering home ownership than investment.  

Hi Nick,I have access to a program through All Risks that is very competitive.Casey

In which case the probability of the IRS examining your return, discovering the grey area issue, taking the opposite position, and winning on appeal would have to be greater than 80% for your expected losses to be higher than just paying it.In their best year ever the IRS is never going to get that probability above 2%At 2%, we are risking an expectation of losing $2.50 by 'going grey' against an expectation of losing $100 by not going into the grey. 

After about a year I implemented the program tenant cloud which reduced the calls to almost zero because my tenants can now pay online, sign their lease on line and submit maintenance request online.  

The house itself is a total loss. 

@Gina Mondesir Hello, I've never done any tax lien/deed transactions myself, but I did take a mentor ship program specifically geared towards liens and deeds.

We get him set up with a temporary Nevada specific program that was incredible, giving him 10% in free money due to the zip code the home was in.