
That being said, we have had success snagging short sales using a shotgun approach. Since writing an offer does not obligate a buyer to anything until the seller accepts it, we have had buyers write several offers at a time on properties they had only driven by and not been inside. A few of these offers do eventually come back and if they haven't found anything by then they can see inside, do their investigations, accept the counter and go into escrow. This method takes lots of patience and some chutzpah (its counter intuitive to most people who haven't bought real estate in such a down market to make offers with only a drive-by). This method can work well with the current abundance of distressed and upside down properties on the market.
