Battle weary colleagues, I would love to hear from other professional real estate agents and brokers.  Let us know about your short sale experience and was it worth the time, energy, and frustration.  Did you feel like you were talking to a machine or humans?  Did it end successfully or, in spite of all your efforts, did it end in foreclosure.  How about extensions?  Was it like pulling teeth, were you turned down flatly?  What attitude or lines of persausion worked the best?