Rus I am not sure if the short sale environment will ever improve. I used to, and still do think it does vary from lender to lender. For the most part though it blows and I would definitely advise people to stick to REO’s and punt on any short sales. Yeah I am chalking it up to experience.
Anyways yeah I went through the alternate number route as well.
My clients are not specific about short sales. It just happened that these were short.