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How to Be Productive I’ve recently had some trouble with one of our short sale closings. The approval letters had been obtained (for the...
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How to Be Productive I’ve recently had some trouble with one of our short sale closings. The approval letters had been obtained (for the...
How to Avoid Short Sale Trouble Have you ever seen The Music Man? If so, than you may remember the lyrics “Ya got trouble,...
Short Sale Incentive Programs Okay, for those of you naysayers who avoid short sales like the Plague, I think it is possible that now...
“I want a big team.” Over the years I’ve had agents tell me they “wanted a big team”. Or they “didn’t want a big...
Buyers and Short Sales If I had a dollar for every short sale transaction that didn’t close on time, I’d be rich. Rich, I...
Dealing with the Second Lien Holder At my speaking engagement last week in San Marcos, California, one of the Realtors® asked me to share...
Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives I wrote a post a few weeks back that touched on pre-approved short sales. In it, I discussed the HAFA...
My perception of reality isn’t always factually accurate. Mostly I’m a positive guy. But every other day or so, I think and feel like opportunities are...
Short sale package demystified: While much has changed in the wacky world of short sales over the last three or four years, one thing...
A HAFA Refresher I was recently contacted by an agent who had just received her HAFA certification and wanted to know how to obtain...
It’s 2011. Not 2010 or 2009. Viva 2011 What’s your real estate market like this week? Is it better than it was a year...
Steps to Take when Receiving Short Sale Approval If you have ever received an approval letter for a short sale, then you have probably...
At the beginning of the year, I wrote about the top 11 ways to get a short sale approved in 2011. I then spent...
Procrastination is a major hurdle for many people, especially those with attention deficit disorder which happens to be many bloggers who have “shiny object...
Are “how to enter a listing into the MLS” classes at your board or “how to sign up for Twitter” lectures at real estate...
Sandra Bullock won endless awards for the 2009 movie, The Blind Side, and this weekend, I finally watched it. I had been putting it...
I recently conducted a short sale workshop at a local Realtor® board. There were 120 registrants; the room capacity was 100, and only fifty...
Chris Bradford is a lawyer in Austin with a passion for his city. During the day, he works at a mega law firm downtown...
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” When the Queen asked the mirror this question, she was inquiring as to...
As I consider how many buyers it takes to close a short sale, I remember the ad where the question is posed, “How many...
One of the junior members of my family landed in the emergency room the other night—a skateboard trick gone awry. The triage nurse was...
My apologies to William Shakespeare for butchering the title of his famous work. No iambic pentameter here! It’s just time to clear the air...
The settlement statement is an often-overlooked component of the short sale package. Whether you are inputting settlement statement information into Bank of America’s Equator...