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With most MLS's allowing up to 25 pictures there always should be more or there is most likely a reluctant seller.

Make yourself a great day.

I don't take these kinds of listings. Sounds like the seller is not motivated to do a short sale. They just dumped a tenant in the property and messed it up for an owner occupant. In California, leases prevail after a short sale. I suggest typically that sellers sell the home vacant, especially if tenants won't allow a lockbox.

Wanda-Sounds to me like the seller truly doesn't want to let go of it even though the process after a short sale(auction or bankruptcy hurts your credit rating. I don't know whether a short sale does or not.

My thoughts are that the seller is not really trying to sell their home. So, instead, they should charge admission to see it. Because that's the only way they're going to make any money on this home!

Wanda, I recently sold an income property.  The tenants (with a lease in hand until August 2013) made it very difficult to show the home, which caused it to be on the market a lot longer than it should have been.  The home sold two days after they gave their notice they wanted to terminate the lease.

Our Mls allows 18 photo's.  You can take 8-10 without hardly trying.

I think that trying to sell this house would cause one to bang their head on the desk, just my opinion.

One of the hard things to communicate to potential clients is that they should probably look elsewhere. I would explain to your buyer that this is going to be a very difficult deal. Is there nothing else out there which captures their attention. I once tried multiple times to show a property to clients. Continually the property was not accessible. My clients kept begging me to see it and I kept calling. Finally we were able to see it. The owners remained for the showing and proceeded to tell us that they would not sell. They hated their listing agent and would never sell because they would not let him get a commission. The only positive from this experience was that the owners sang my praises to my clients saying they finally allowed us to see the home because I was so relentless. However, it was a huge waste of everyone's time.

Cal

We hear from buyer clients over and over that if there isn't a good representation of the property in pictures, they assume there is something wrong with the property. Pictures please and access too! You do have to wonder if it is a short sale don't you?

Sounds like the owner was trying to sell this property out from under the tenant without telling them they were selling it.

Sounds like they really don't want to sell.  Maybe they are just going through the motions so they can live there free for a few more months and the lender doesn't start foreclosure proceedings.