For the record: "The monthly S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Indices use the “repeat sales method” of index calculation – an approach that is widely recognized as the premier methodology for indexing housing prices – which uses data on properties that have sold at least twice, in order to capture the true appreciated value of each specific sales unit.

Hi Brian,I think this may be true for some folks, but not for the bulk of people.  

The color of the pain on the walls shouldn't matter (paint is cheap). how nice the kitchen is shouldn't matter.

The downside here is that the last payment in the amortization schedule pushes out past the maturity date of the note (or as defined by the last modification), so at some point in the future a mod or extension agreement would need to be executed to true that up.I would be interested in hearing about any other strategies folks are using.  

Do you know if this is true?

@Timothy Douglas  IMO - It's hard to find true private money (family and friends) and you definitely have to network a lot.  

While there are many realtors that do operate as a fiduciary, compensation is never aligned with being a true fiduciary. 

This is even true if what you state is true but you left off that it used a low LTV or had a great value add. 

Not sure why, or if that was even true, so I created a "coming soon" and a few days before closing as mentioned above.

Hey BP Community.I was presented with a deal recently that seemed too good to be true.