Category Archives: Current Blogs

Without a Deal Maker, The Deal Does Not Get Made!

“I’m Not Doing Another One of These Short Sales!!!!” I hear as one of my negotiators at The Short Sale Service slams the phone down yelling.
I walk down the hall and ask what’s up.  He continues:  “I’m not doing another one of these short sales unless there is an investor in the middle to make [...]

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Dear Freddie Mac

**** An Open Letter to Freddie Mac ***

Dear Freddie Mac:
Last week you published an article on your website “Emerging Fraud Trends: Short Payoff Fraud.”  Absent further clarification, your letter could cause serious damage to the already struggling housing market, compromise the Administration’s goals of reducing foreclosures, and increase losses to lenders and investors such as [...]

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“We’re #1!”

(Syd’s baseball team – currently undefeated 4-0 and in 1st  place.  My Gators – nope,  didn’t make it past their first game in NCAA March Madness.)
But Short Sales are #1! According to Thomas Popik, research director for Campbell Surveys, “Short sales now account for the No. 1 category of distressed property.”
Confirming what I’ve been saying [...]

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Dumb Dumb II

Following yesterday’s post – I don’t call lenders dumb . . . but sometimes they’re good for solid laugh.  Check this one out.   These are actual emails from lenders.
From the lender in 1st position:
Being in first lien position, our investor gets to make the decision as to how much the 2nd can receive on a [...]

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Dumb Dumb

I don’t engage in lender bashing.  Facebook and the blogosphere are full of people talking about how dumb lenders are.  You’ll never find me saying that.
My party line is “lenders are simply under intense pressure from many different places – investors, insurance companies, government regulators, and their own PR agenda – that often the end [...]

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Foreclosures Get Worse, Increasing Demand for Smart Investors

A recently released study from LPS Applied Analytics shows the foreclosure crisis keeps getting worse.  Here are some quick statistics from the report:

Delinquency rates have surpassed the 10% level; factoring in foreclosures, the total non-current rate sits at 13.3%.
Industry extrapolations indicate that over 7.2 million loans are currently behind on payments with an estimated nearly [...]

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New FTC Proposed Rules

The Federal Trade Commission proposed a new rule that would prohibit loan modification specialists and loss mitigation attorneys from collecting advanced payment for foreclosure prevention services until after they obtain results.
“Homeowners facing foreclosure or struggling to make mortgage payments shouldn’t have to contend with fraudulent ‘companies’ that don’t provide what they promise,” FTC Chairman Jon [...]

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Short Sale Success Workshop for January 2010: “$120,000 from a Shack”

I’ll show you the real deal . . . step-by-step how we created a $120,000.00 profit all the details . . . line-by-line.
It’s a 100% Content jammed packed training
Sunday, January 24, 2010
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From “Lead” to “Check” Ben [...]

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HUD Recognizes “Good Flippers”, Waives 90 Day Seasoning!

Wow, I never thought my blog post on “Good Flippers” would have such an impact.  I posted it Friday morning and then that day FHA waives the 90 day flipping rule!  Ah, the power of the pen!
Okay, so maybe that’s just a coincidence, but the both the article and the FHA waiver make the same [...]

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The Good Flippers

Finally!  In this week’s Time article, “Home Flippers Are Back in Florida. A Good Sign?”, Thomas Collins writes:
The current crop of investors, analysts say, are playing a crucial role in reviving the housing market . . . Somebody’s got to clean up those messes, and that’s what the good flippers do, observers say. They might [...]

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