New guidelines for banks for carrying out short sales

I have been preaching for 3 years now about the callous and deceptive practices of banks. In the last 2 days, we see the Government finally setting rules for banks to follow regarding loan modifications and short sales. Tuesday, I posted an article about loan modifications and today here is the article for short sales.

http://www.dsnews.com/articles/treasury-releases-guidance-for-making-home-affordable-short-sales-2009-12-01

I am hopeful that this will help quicken the response time for banks regarding short sales decisions but I can already see quite a few things regarding the guidelines that concern me. I'd like to go deeper into the possible problems in a future post but I'm still glad to see at least they seem to recognize that the problem exists. Let's hope we see some positives from the new guidelines!