Do Government Programs Help Real Estate Investing

I was surprised recently when Brett Clothier showed me the closing documents on a property we were purchasing.  We had been waiting for months for the deal to close as it was a short sale that the seller had to negotiate.  It was a good deal for us and after we complete the renovation work, it will be a great deal for one of our investors.  What we had no idea about on the front end, was just how good a deal it was for the current owner. I recently wrote an article detailing not only this deal, but how some of the programs put out by the government have been abysmal failures and yet they somehow continue to survive.