You can't fix UGLY

I have a client who is dire need of a Short Sale to get out from under her mortgages. She's upside down primarily due to the reasons I explained in my post, "You Can't Fix LTV". In simplest terms, her homes value has dropped dramatically because the homes around her have drastically dropped in value. Yes, she has no income.  Yes, she has no chance to loan modify.  Yes, she bought at the market high with the wrong loans and little to nothing  down.  But as I started looking at the "other" reasons why the neighborhood is in such decline and found a horrid tale that can only be described as Ugly, Ugly, Ugly!  How Ugly is UGLY? There are currently 82 REOs in the neighborhood. There are 139 NODs (soon to be REOs) How about the record high HOMICIDES last year? What about the other crimes?  How does 631 separate incidents in the last 90 days sound? My package includes over 300 recent news stories about this neighborhood. I don't know about you, but if I was a Loss Mitigation Specialist and had an offer presented that would keep my company from owning this potential soon to be REO, I'd take pretty much anything that came my way. We shall see.  The Listing Agent has a couple of real offers and I'm putting the Short Sale Package together today.