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Joe Loomer
December 28, 2009 at 6:51 am
I guess we’re having a local fail in leadership at Wells Fargo – they’re just as bad here as BOA with short sales. They’re even worse than BOA when it comes to closing “normal” transactions on FHA, VA, and conventional. products.
Hopefully, HAMP’s new guidlines for Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives will streamline this for all – although waiting until April for enforcement is ridiculous.
Navy Chief, Navy Pride
Dean Ouellette
December 28, 2009 at 10:54 am
Joe the problem is there is NO enforcement. It is just guidelines and they need to waive any deficiency for a whopping $1,000? It will be about as successful as the Titanic
Greg Cooper
December 28, 2009 at 6:59 am
Russell,
If you hadn’t shared it, I would have never known it. My experience with B/A in ’09 was them losing a $305,000 wire transfer for 5 days. They ‘found’ it on a Monday after it was sent on a Wednesday with their client paying extra for an overnight receipt charge which they never recovered. Pitiful.
I still can’t get over the WF headline from late in ’09 where they rejected an offer on a bank owned because they didn’t like the prequal letter….which ironically was also from WF.
Jay McHugh
December 28, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Well said once again….your obejectiveness is refreshing…
Barry Lynn Miller -REMAX
December 28, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I have worked with B of A and they are hard never with Well Fargo but the easiest was National city less than 30 days start to finish great company.
Chuck Rifae
December 28, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Russell, I could not agree with you more about BofA’s performance. It drives me nuts when I see their commercials showing how much BofA is doing when I know as a Real Estate Broker( Re/Max agent) I know just how bad they treat Realtors and customer! On the other hand, I just completed a short sale with Well’s that took TWO WEEKS to approve by the bank! The Well’s rep contacted me 3 days after I sent in the short sale packet with his direct number and email address! He reviewed the packet and had a BPO ordered TWO days later. I’m sure that having a complete packet helped speed the process but I have sent in complete packets to other lender with dramatically different results. It is also nice to someone telling these lenders that we as agents have very long memories!
Great write up!
Chuck
Christy Ruschel, Realtor, CDPE, SFR, HRC
December 28, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I do a lot of short sales and REO’s as a REMAX Associate in Central Florida. I hold the CDPE, SFR & HRC Designations. I have been working very hard in ‘o8 & ’09 to help homeowners Modify (No Monetary Benefits to me but GREAT Feeling of Accomplishmnet), I also have done several short sales & REO’s Successfully.. I have found the smaller the bank usually the easier and quicker it is to get approvals. I have found some larger banks can seem to be easy to deal with and others not so good. I have also found that there are some really lazy negotiators out there due to I have done multiple deals with the same lenders but different negotiators. I sat in a meeting this month with Dave Linger and seveal other REMAX Agents and was very proud to find out this information directly from Dave. As a REMAX Agent working hard to work with homeowners in Central Florida to get their homes either modified or approved for a short sale I am very happy to have Dave on my side… I have two GREAT Brokers who support me as well. That never hurts…..
Felix Gomensky
December 29, 2009 at 4:32 am
Hey hey hey …not so fast. Praising BoA and CW (Countryworse)…already…Godsh…which planet have you been. Of course the top executives at BoA did not know because Mr. Chairman of the Board of Re/Max was talking to the wrong persons and those people do not control that dept. That’s why they don’t know what is going on. If those people makes the decisions; they have to know and will know its’ REO/BOOK ratio and Closing vs Offer ratios. They purposely withheld approval of short-sale so their inventory value (BANK REOs) would go up in an up market; thus their stock would raise on an increasing scale. They are not approving the short-sale and is holding a MASSIVE MASSIVE inventory and that is why their stock is up from last year. The bank is insanely greedy. Since they are not making any loans; thus holding the inventory high in an increasing heated real estate market is a good business decision for them but not quite good for the common man like you and me. As for the homeowner, yeah …I feel sorry for you. You think the bank’s short-sale policy could change, yeah… if that happened, the sun would come and raise from the west instead of the east and James Cameron’s new film “Avatar” would be in 1D instead of 3D. One Chairman Realtor and a couple of Senators can’t do nothing to the bank on its Ten Billion Dollars of REO inventories, unless you are Mr. Barney Frank. Yeah…I think Bank of America should be renamed “Bank of United States of America”.
MIssy Caulk
December 29, 2009 at 11:44 am
I heart Dave Liniger.
Jon Laird
December 30, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Being at the narrower end of the funnel as a lender, we see a lot of this activity from a lot of different banks. Beyond the way they react to their troubled accounts, the banks don’t have a great reputation on the new origination side, either. They have done a pretty good job of capturing market share during the mortgage crisis (they caused) and they haven’t been especially adept at handling the new business. Bank of America continues to be the featured bogeyman in the horror stories we hear from our Realtor sources.
Sheila Moran
January 7, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Oh, my word. I went to Houston yesterday to hear Dave speak. He told us this story! It is so awesome.
I agree with your notion that Executives that don’t know what their weak points are create a mess!
Jorge Martinez
February 2, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Hope that Chase would do the same as Wells and B of A.
Christy Ruschel, Realtor, CDPE, SFR, HRC
February 3, 2010 at 8:31 am
Absolutely – Atlanta Short Sales & Foreclosures!!! Great write up & true too……
Dean Ouellette
May 11, 2010 at 3:34 pm
I have to admit, just finishing up a short sale with BoA right now, they really are trying. This equator system is finally starting to run smooth and make the process tolerable.
Nancy O
July 14, 2010 at 10:02 am
Bank of America has come a long way from 3 years ago when I first started doing short sales. Wells Fargo on the other hand is terrible. They sit on the file and keep on asking for documentation over and over again ( because they sit on the file so long). Chase is beginning to get better. Quite frankly, Wells would be the worst on my list because they are extremely rigid and difficult to work with.