However a bank will be less likely to
accept a short sale offer for the sale if the offer price is lower than its BPO.
On this webcast, Kimberlee talked about how to influence the BPO or appraisal and how to use repair estimates to convince the bank to
accept your short sale offer.
Not exact matches
A
short sale is when a bank will
accept an
offer on a house that is less than what the current owner owes on the property.
A
short sale is accomplished when an
offer is placed on your property that the lienholder (lender) agrees to
accept, but is an amount less than the amount owed on the loan.
In addition, if you're buying a
short sale home, low ball
offers —
offers far below the fair market value — are unlikely to be
accepted.
A few days back we converesed about
short sale seller
accepting a lower
offer than our
offer.
At the conclusion of such evaluation, the transferee servicer must permit the borrower to
accept the
short sale option
offered by the transferor servicer, even if the transferee servicer does not
offer the
short sale option, in addition to any loss mitigation options the transferee servicer determines to
offer the borrower based upon its own evaluation.
If the
offer that you have
accepted is not within the ball park of the actual value of the property your
short sale is going to be REJECTED!
Accepting low ball
short sale offers is just one of many mistakes you will want to avoid!
Accepting a low ball
short sale offer certainly wastes a lot of time for the seller and could result in them losing the home to foreclosure depending on where they are in the process.
The problem with
short sales is that the real estate agents will
accept multiple
offers and submit all the
offers to the bank.
With a lot of agents in our area not wanting to show «
short sale» listings I use this
offer to get from the bank what they will really
accept and then can market the home with an approved value.
We put an
offer in on a
short sale, the bank counter and we accpted the counter we are waiting on the bank sign off on the
offer we
accepted how long do we have to wait.
my husband and i put an
offer in on a countrywide
short sale in December 07 we just found out that it was forclosed on and they did not
accept the
short sale.
We had our
offer on a
short sale home
accepted by the seller on Feb. 11 09, so we are 3 weeks into the process.
My husband and I stumbled upon a house in Georgia, It was supposedly foreclosed, but when we made the
offer at the beginning of march, we found out CW never actually followed through foreclosure with the previous owner, so after coverting to
short sale, the previous owner
accepted our
offer, but we all know with CW that doesn't mean JACK.
Since the seller always walks away from a
short sale with nothing anyway, it really makes no difference for you which
offer they
accept, only that they
accept one and produce the letter in a timely manner.
Now, she's finally writing
offers that are getting
accepted and has two
short sales with Canadian buyers set to close.
That typically happens on a
short sale because, they have a buyer lined up, or the buyer may have made the initial contact (as many here do) and the property has to be listed prior to
accepting an
offer.
While some of the properties are newer on the market the real reason the number of listings increased is mostly from Fannie Mae owned mortgages going through the
short sale process being kicked back into the market due to over the market value counter
offers regarding what Fannie Mae is willing to
accept as a
short fall on a
short sale.
If your
sales price falls within the range of comparable
sales, then increasing it a little bit to include a seller concession for closing costs might be the little tweak you need to get your
short sale offer accepted.
Short sales are not always easy to close, though, with your lender having the final say on what
offer it will and will not
accept.
You'll need to find someone to help you work the
short sale if you don't know what you are doing and you won't find out if the bank will
accept your
offer, or if they'll counter until you are working it.
That makes it clear that, regardless of the nature of the
accepted offer or type of contingency —
short sale, buyer's property
sale, or other — the
offer must be disclosed to brokers when they seek cooperation.
I started a new
short sale, and I have 2
offers out that I expect to get
accepted as I was able to basically give the sellers what they were asking for.
With a lot of agents in our area not wanting to show «
short sale» listings I use this
offer to get from the bank what they will really
accept and then can market the home with an approved value.
If the
offer that you have
accepted is not within the ball park of the actual value of the property your
short sale is going to be REJECTED!
For a seller to
accept a low ball
offer would essentially be gambling away any chance they have for
short sale success.
To your other comment about
short sales, while they are available they are neither
short or easy to negotiate with the banks and often take several months to complete, if they even
accept your
offer...
Once an
offer is
accepted by the seller we move into the negotiating stage of the
short sale processing.
Short Sales: When Is an
Offer «
Accepted»?
Even if your MLS doesn't require the listing to be reclassified as «pending» or «under contract» upon acceptance of an
offer in a
short sale, if a cooperating broker contacts you about showing that listing to a prospect, you're required to disclose the
accepted offer.