Actually not all short sales are nightmares and as usual your dream shortsales are more then likely the exception rather then the norm sdr. In fact I am dealing with a short sale that has been going on since June from a very experienced and well respected Coldwell Banker agent and she is pulling her hair out.

So I would suggest that perhaps it is your posts that may mislead readers into believing that short sales are not a problem. Your posts make it sound as if you have dealt with a myriad of different lenders and negotiators. I am not a short sale expert either by any means. Some of them are smooth and some of them are not. However to claim that since a few of them have gone smoothly for you then portrays that all short sales will go smoothly as long as the Realtor is competent is as usual an inference by you of competence on your part and incompentence on mine and other parts.

Actually the bottom line is that competence matters but that same competence must also be present on the lenders side as well. When I dealt with Wilshire credit corp they wanted a hell of alot more then just cursory documentation. Your inference was again incorrect on that count.

I would think it would be more responsible to say that the lenders you worked directly with required little or cursory documents rather then generalizing it to all lenders.