So first you have hope the bank accepts your short sale offer. Then you have to wait until April to find out what your inherited “uncooperative tenant” did to the place.

Of course, what they should do is just buy the tenant out. If gave him $10,000 to leave, I suspect they would more than make that back in the better offers they would get.

But the owner is not going to spend his OWN money to make sure the bank gets better short sale offers.

The bank should just foreclose and put everyone out of their misery. This is one case where the bank probably would get more even after going through the expense of foreclosure.