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Can You Help Me Please Real Estate Expert?

You have spent months getting your blog in order. Making sure your lead generation system was working perfectly, thinking of and writing numerous blog posts per day, constantly tweaking your site so that it is a sleek SEO driven machine.Maybe you have spent thousands of dollars on a marketing campaign to get you the same [...]

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Short Sale Tip # 4: Property Improvement & Repair Estimate Report

Short Sale Tip # 4: Property Improvement & Repair Estimate Report When things go bad…they usually go real bad. If a homeowner has not paid his mortgage in many months, it is likely that the house has been neglected.  If funds were not on hand to pay the mortgage, then it is probably safe to [...]

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Short Sale Tip # 5: Homeowner Financial Package

Short Sale Tip # 5: Homeowner Financial Package Now that you are asking for a reduction in their payoff, and after you have submitted a real tear-jerker of a Hardship Letter, the bank wants to see how the hardship has truly affected the homeowner financially. The homeowner needs to provide you with the following information: [...]

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Short Sale Tip #13 : 5 Questions To Ask The Seller…Before Taking The Listing For a Property in Foreclosure

Short Sale Tip #13 : 5 Questions To Ask The Seller…Before Taking The Listing For a Property in Foreclosure In a down market, when the phone rings, agents and investors often can’t wait to get that next listing or contract. They rush out before really thinking about their plan of action and what makes the [...]

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Short Sale Tip # 6: Controlling The BPO

Short Sale Tip # 6: Controlling The BPO Today’s Tip is about the BPO…or where the show begins!

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Short Sale Tip # 7: Confronting The 1099 Issue In Short Sales

Short Sale Tip # 7: Confronting The 1099 Issue In Short Sales Can you imagine losing your home AND being hit with a huge IRS bill?  Well if the short sale is not performed correctly and the short sale proposal request is not properly formatted, you may end up sticking the homeowner with a huge and [...]

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Short Sale Tip #10 Overcoming Objections with the Homeowner

Short Sale Tip #12 Overcoming Objections with the Homeowner Part 1 We are getting many questions from our attendees as to how to overcome objections with the homeowner, but we are surprisingly getting MORE questions as to how to overcome objections from the inexperienced or uneducated agent representing the homeowner…isn’t that a twist?

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Short Sale Tip # 9: The Role Of Mold In Obtaining A Big Short Sale Discount

Short Sale Tip # 9: The Role Of Mold In Obtaining A Big Short Sale Discount Ever see a really good horror movie? Want to see one? Check out the bill or quote you will receive for black mold remediation.

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Short Sale Tip # 8: The Role of Loss Severity In Short Sales

Short Sale Tip # 8: The Role of Loss Severity In Short Sales Do you speak “banker-ese”? If not, you are leaving HUGE amounts of money on the closing table! When performing a short sale you have to be sure that you are negotiating from a position of strength. Do you know what Loss Severity [...]

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In Search Of Short Sale Predators

You’ve probably seen Dateline NBC’s expose called “To Catch A Predator”. Well it seems there are more than just a few people who find flipping short sales to be predatory. They think that people who engage in such activity are short sale predators who seek to be leeches upon the downtrodden.

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