Have an offer on my short sale listing. Buyer needs closing costs paid by seller. My seller has NO money to pay closing costs. Will the bank work closing costs into the deal they accept? TIA!

They will certainly consider it and there's no reason not to ask. It all comes down to the bottom line for the bank. So, go ahead and submit the offer with closing costs to the bank and make sure to include the closing costs in the HUD1.

In my experience, the bank is looking roughly for a net of 90% of the BPO. If they can get their net, then where the additional 10% goes may not be important. If it were me, I would submit it, but keep searching for a "cleaner" offer in case they come back and turn them down.

Some of my deals the bank says YES other times the bank has said NO.

In some cases each agent kicked in a little coin along with the buyers parents coming up with the rest to bring to closing.

Short sales are a case by case basis but the government is fixing to come out with a streamlined process.

super, you just said the government is going to fix the short sale problem. Now that was funny!