It is very concerning to see real estate agents and real estate brokers, under the guise of being helpful in getting
short sale deals done, offering web pages with detailed advice on what should go into a short sale financial hardship letter.
Florida home owners fighting foreclosure, and foreclosure defense attorneys, and Florida lawyers helping with short sales for that matter, may need a bit of good news after dealing with the ramifications of the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Pino v. Bank of New York this month — and we're getting some from lawmakers in Tallahassee and Washington, D.C. on proposed new laws that will help home owners get
those short sale deals done and finalized at the closing table.
Getting
a short sale deal done (especially right now with the overwhelmed lenders like Countrywide) takes alot of work.
Not exact matches
Lining up a buyer willing to
do a
short sale could convince your lenders to sign off on a
deal.
Buying Taylor McKenzie's Credit Trauma Book was one of the best things I have
done recently to help me a great
deal when negotiating with my lender regarding my
short sale of my home.
Keep in mind this type of funding is usually needed when
doing Short Sales or purchasing REO properties from the bank because your not allowed to assign contracts when
dealing with banks.
I don't sell commercial because I don't feel I can really represent my client in it so why
do agents try to
deal with
short sales when they are unfamiliar with the process?
When a
short sale transaction occurs, the seller
does not make any money off of the
deal, however, in most cases they are not required to pay the remaining balance of the mortgage.
CW is my 2nd mortgage holder and since it took so long for them to approve the
short sale, the updated HUD didn't give them as much money as they were expecting and it even put the first a lil
short, so the
deal had to be re-approved by the 1st mortgage holder.
countrywide sent out an appraiser over 6 weeks ago to get an appraisal of the
short sale property i want to buy... they still have not given us an answer and we have been
dealing with them since February... Has anyone else had an appraisal
done and still waiting?
Ideally I would tell you that if an attorney with
short sale experience or other type
short sale specialist is handling the
sale you probably have a better shot at getting the
deal done.
Did you get a good
deal on the
short sale?
Banks play a very integral role in the
short sale process and if they don't give their green light to the
deal then nothing would happen.
I, for one, never imagined when I first started out that I would have to
do things like manage lease space, navigate through MLS mergers,
deal with the fallout of a failed association merger, start up a meeting and event space business, teach
short sales and foreclosure classes, endure plummeting membership numbers during the hard times, launch a real estate licensing school, sing at installations, and jump on a float for a parade.
On the one
deal I
did find that we partnered with an investor, a reverse mortgage
short sale, the mail box was flooded with almost 3 dozen cards & letters from the foreclosure listing, so there are a lot of companies going after distressed properties here.
The only time you would
do what Jon has suggested is if you don't want the seller to know the amount of the profit you are making or if you are
dealing with a bank (REO or
Short Sale).
«Helping people is a big
deal to me, whether I'm saving them from having to
do a
short sale or helping them down a mountain,» he says.
Mainly we have been
doing short sales, and finding
deals through the MLS and other business connections.
If you don't work as partners in a
short sale, you're not going to make it to the end of a four - month
deal.
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I have been working on
short sales for years now and even though it
does take a few months, it has been the best
deal spread in profit that I have ever received on any type of
deal.
I work with many buyers looking for great real estate
deals, and after they understand that low - ball offers don't work, and the process to purchase a
short sale home can have an unpredictable time - frame; they then better appreciate the
short sale listing procedures you have set up to be successful.
Don is a full - time, active real estate investor, coach and trainer who had
done all types of real estate
deals such as wholesaling, creative financing on pretty house
deals, rehabbing and retailing, rentals,
short sales, foreclosures, new construction, private lending and much, much more.
Last Update: 02/24/16 With pressure building to get
short sales done before the end of the year (when the tax exemption for deficiencies expires), it's becoming more and more important to help buyers find Florida
short sale properties as well as helping sellers promote their
short sale deals.
Tired of no / low equity
deals where you have to wrestle with the bank to
do a
short sale?
Just curious as to how the broker out of SC is really
doing the
deal without processing the
Short Sale all the way thorugh.
Short sales are still good
deals for many buyers, it's just a matter of getting the
deal done.
I put a thin
deal short sale under contract in Feb when I didn't have much going on that just came in and punted it because I've got 4 right now and didn't want to cheat on the my numbers / tie up the cash / work that hard when it finally came in.
He explains the two types of
short sale deals and what he
does — and doesn't — include in his packages to the bank.
That's one way that I stand out and I also don't, I don't specialize in everything, I
do what I
do and I
do it well, I don't try to be all things to everyone, so for example if someone is looking to either get a great
deal through a
short sale or just sell their home through a
short sale, I don't
do those myself, I've had training and experience in it but I know the experts in it and I refer it to those experts.
Odds are that most of you are already knowledgeable when it comes to
short sales — and likely have
dealt with them from time to time — but
do your clients understand the differences that come with a
short sale?
Having a Florida lawyer on your side when you are facing foreclosure, trying to get a
short sale of your home, or wanting to renegotiate a home mortgage loan is always helpful — but what many Florida home owners
do not realize is that having a lawyer on your side as soon as possible can lessen the daily stress of the situation, such as having the attorney take on the burden of
dealing with the bill collectors.
So they miss out on BIG profits that are available by making offers on
short sales that are listed and / or controlling the whole
deal by finding the seller that needs to
do a
short sale, list it and have a title company process the
short sale.
Closing — And finally, a good
short sale agent in Wellington FL will
do his or her utmost to
do everything else that has to be
done so that you and the other can finally close the
deal.
Of particular concern to home builders: the impact that appraisals in
deals involving foreclosed homes,
short sales and distressed real estate has had on the real estate market, particularly when appraisers use these properties as comparables for brand new homes —
doing so, brings down the appraised value of the new home unfairly and inaccurately.
If this
does turn out to be a
short sale, you, the buyer, the real estate agents and the title company will all have to sign an affidavit stating that this is not an insider
deal and that no one is related to you.
What I meant was, for people who
short sale a lot, what % of the offers
do you see close on your
deals?
«We'll see what happens after the holiday season, but the possibility of a continued drop in occupancy by another 100 basis points or so in 2010 is still very much a possibility, given the lack of a broad recovery in tenant
sales levels and our unwillingness to
do uneconomic
deals for the sake of
short - term occupancy gains,» Wood said during the company's conference call with analysts on Nov. 5.
usually i just google the county mls list many brokers website also have access however the broker i use gets alot more info than i
do for instance on one
deal that fell thru she knew it was a divorce that left them taking
short sale offers however there were two mortgages the first okayed the
short sale the second BOA pulled out three days before closing.
I'm heartened to hear that
short sale deals can be
done relatively painlessly.