well the wife and i got approved for a home loan.the fist house i was wanting sold yesterday morning

.but now we are going to look at a house on short sale valued at 200k and they will take 130k to get out of being forclosed on.im thinking it will be a good buy seeing as ther is allready 70k in equiety.in 3 or 4 years i can refinance it take 40k out buy a house i want and rent this one out.today the house is valued for 1200 a month in rent.
what ya think,i know none of this is archery but alot of you guys have been around longer then me.and thoughts are allways welcome