Short sale agent with designations and short sale home conditions is a post from: Tempe Real Estate - Short Sale Agent

When you put your East Valley home on the market as a short sale it is important that you maintain the home in a presentable way. No one wants to walk into a home and see trash all over the floors and junk on the counters.
No, you do not need to professionally stage your home, just make your home inviting to the people viewing it. Make it a home they can see themselves living in and a home that looks like it is enjoyable to own. A home that looks like it was cared for is going to get a much better offer than a home that is trashed. That better offer is going to make it much easier to get your offer approved.

Another subject that gets me fired up is designations. Why is it that almost all designations you need to pay for and then pay the designation company every year to keep using it? This of this, you go to ASU (Go Sun Devils!) get your degree and then every year ASU comes to you and says if you want to say you got an education from us you need to pay us every year (insert student loan joke here.) Also that designation does not mean you know how to do anything, it means you took the class.

The exception may be the SSG or Short Sale Genius designation. With this designation once you have it, you have it. But the kicker is, you actually need to have closed short sales before you can use it. But even then I would not hire an agent just because they have the SSG designation. When interviewing an agent make them explain to you the process the use and ask them questions on how they do things.

Fight for clients in short sale approval is a post from: Tempe Real Estate - Short Sale Agent

Not every short sale is going to close, no matter how good you are. Often times issues like PMI are going to get in the way. But you should be taking the fight to the bank for your client to get the deal done and sellers when interviewing agents make sure you ask them what they are going to do when the bank says no.

But I don’t have PMI?!?! is a post from: Tempe Real Estate - Short Sale Agent

So you purchased your East Valley home with a 80/20 loan so you would not have PMI. Now you need to sell your home and you find out the PMI company is asking for a cash contribution or a note for $10,000 to be signed. Why is that?

Well it turns out that investors who purchased your mortgage didn’t trust you so they purchased PMI for them. That is all well and good, and allowed, but that PMI company is not allowed to ask you for a contribution. Well they can, but they are not supposed to.

When they do this it is called 3rd party bad faith. The problem, even through you are right it is going to be more expensive to fight it than just pay it. I think this is going to end up leading to a class action law suite.

Question real estate stats and Fannie Mae is costing us money is a post from: Tempe Real Estate - Short Sale Agent

National real estate numbers almost mean nothing to your local real estate market, and even local real estate may have more than one market. Dont read to much into numbers they dont always tell the whole story. And what is up with Fannie Mae not allowing more time to work on short sales? This does not cost them money, it cost US money. Either allow time for the deal to be worked on or work on it a lot quicker.

Tempe Short Sale: A lot tougher when agent seller don’t have great 2-way communications is a post from: Tempe Real Estate - Short Sale Agent

Short sales are hard, short sales when the seller and the listing agent don’t have great open communications is even harder. A recent Tempe short sale experience showed that. The home owner did not communicate about some financial circumstances and the agent negotiating (me) was hit from no where by banks negotiator.

Bank of America short sale resolved quickly by not hearing no is a post from: Tempe Real Estate - Short Sale Agent

This Bank of America short sale problem was resolved because when they said no, we heard KNOW. Many people hate short sales because they say no to often and many people hate Bank of America because they are slow to respond. When you get the two issues together it could create a problem.

Many times when banks say no the agent negotiating should be hearing KNOW not NO. When you have that mindset it becomes a problem to solve. What do they not KNOW that will make them change their mind.

I actually enjoy Bank of America short sales is a post from: Tempe Real Estate - Short Sale Agent

People love to rip Bank of America short sale department as being the worst. I myself have done some videos on the subject saying the same. But the truth is they are now probably the most improved. I recently talked to a lady looking to short sale her Tempe house and she was shocked when I said I was looking forward to Bank of America deals.

Now every deal is different, but their times have been greatly improving. Just this last week I got approval on a deal in only 22 days. Bank of America deserves praise for what they have done to improve things and let’s hope they keep it up.

How to effect the BPO on your short sale is a post from: Tempe Real Estate - Short Sale Agent

Many short sales get declined because a BPO comes in bad. But that did not have to be the case. You can do things to effect the BPO. Watch this and see how I try to get the BPO to come in, not what I want, but what it should be.

Is the bank to be blamed when a short sale is declined? is a post from: Tempe Real Estate - Short Sale Agent

That short sale should have been approved, both agents know it, the buyer the seller, they all know it. Yet it wasn’t. Who’s fault is it? The banks right? Not always, often it is the listing agents fault.

I recently had a buyer interested in a house that was a short sale on the market for $146,000. The listing agent submitted a full price offer to the bank and started negotiations. It wasn’t long before the bank declined the offer and the deal went to foreclosure.

After the foreclosure costs, and the carrying costs for over a month and listing it with an asset manager, the house was finally listed on the market for $136,000. So why did this happen? Most likely the agent heard “no” when they should have heard “know.” The bank obviously did not know enough information to make an informed decision.

There are many things that could effect this, but in 9 out of 10 cases the agent should be able to fight this and get this house sold. I will discuss more about setting the tone with the BPO in my next video.

East Valley Housing Market: Real Estate stats lie is a post from: Tempe Real Estate - Short Sale Agent

When you are watching the news and see those nightly national real estate stats, remember they are not relevant to you and your real estate market at all. When you hear only 31% of homes sold last month were distressed short sale or foreclosures, that doesn’t mean anything to you in Tempe and the East Valley where that number is closer to 62%.