I just came back from a real estate seminar yesterday where I happened to have lunch with several realtors from all over the country who I met there. We exchanged ideas and information about the real estate market and issues in real estate. Of course when I told them that I specialize in negotiat
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03/20/2010
Do you need to know who to contact at the bank or lender to get your short sale offer approved? Are you working on a short sale or recently completed working on a short sale and can share a needed contact at that bank? Lets help each other to get our short sales approved and sold, by working toge
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01/20/2010
Well intended Realtors often ask me for advice on getting their short sales approved, however a question that I should be asked is; "how to get a short sale approved where the seller is assured of a discharge from all debt obligations? or a promise that a future deficiency judgment will not be so
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01/13/2010
When closing a short sale don't make this possibly "fatal" mistake! (edit/delete) I just closed another successful short sale, but It could have been a disaster because of an easily overlooked paperwork situation that had come to my attention that many agents probably make, and live to regret.
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08/17/2008
I just closed another successful short sale, but It could have been a disaster because of an easily overlooked paperwork situation that had come to my attention that many agents probably make, and live to regret. In this situation both notes for the 1st and 2nd mortgages were held by the same ban
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08/16/2008
I have had many agents and mortgage professionals tell me that the lenders will not consider allowing a seller who is "upside down" on their mortgage to sell their home with a short sale unless they have stopped making their mortgage payments, some well intending agents will tell this to their di
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06/24/2008
12 days ago, I listed a house as a short sale and received a decent purchase offer sent in from another agent in about a week. The problem my collegues and I have always had was how to speed up the process of getting it to the bank's negotiator, rather than having the offer sit for days or w
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05/20/2008
I had a "brainstorm" moment at my local association networking breakfast as I was "pitching" my listing that had just fallen out of escrow because the buyer was too frightened to go through with the purchase of my client's home because of all of the negative media attention about the real estate
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09/21/2007
I just sent a letter out late last night to many of the buyers in my data base that want a home but are "waiting" to see what happens with our local Northern Los angeles real estate market. I basically let them know that the Feds have cut the interest rates 1/2% which improved the stock market a
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09/20/2007
By using my secret "formula" sheet I just got the bank to accept my buyer client's offer on another short pay! The listing agent called me and told me that she was very impressed with how I worked the numbers to get them to take what initially appeared to be a lower offer than what she expected
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09/19/2007
