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Part 8 – Ok, so that is good to know, I know there are people who want to try and do that and I really dont know. I am really a full time mortgage professional, I didnt get into the loan modification business on purpose, we write mortgage loans, real estate loans for residential and commercial, so therefore I dont know your laws on the same token you dont do loan modifications and you dont write loans, youre professional realtor.

Exactly, and one more thing, bottom line is you cant be defrauding the bank. Because then youre stepping into mortgage fraud, as you know. You do have to have a hardship, you honestly do have to show, if youre going to be benefiting from staying in the home, you have to show a hardship that you cant afford the current payment. If youre making a couple hundred thousand a year and have a ½ million in the bank and owe $200,000 the bank isnt on your side in that case.

There are a lot of situations though when a homeowner wants to stay in their home, if that is the case, then we market it to investors, because there is a lot of the people who are buying these homes so we work with the investor and we work out the lease amount and the homeowners can stay in their homes in those situations. Whatever it looks like at the end of the day, the homeowner needs to picture where they are going to be in the short term midterm and long term and where this house fits into those plans, if a loan mod isnt right a short sale is a significantly better option than a foreclosure.

They need to call now, they need to take action because you do need to find a place to live and were here to help you, you dont want to get two weeks to the point of foreclosure and have no where to move your family. And the Dreamvestors Team that is your main focus right now, but people still call you for first time home buyers.

We work with buyers as well as people who are short selling. We have been in real estate several years and we didnt want just short sales, were fortunate to have a very strong clientele base and were always taking new clients. We have just adjusted our focus as the market called for it and as our clients called for it.

The other thing too when we talk about these short sales, getting out of that home before it goes to foreclosure is always the best case scenario, the bank is happier with it, the house is more saleable in most cases, people are still living there, its still there home, they still feel like the pride of ownership.

Yes, and in addition, pride of neighborhood is another point. Your neighbors are going to like you better because there is not a foreclosure in their neighborhood, it helps keep the prices up when the bank takes them back the banks price them even lower typically, well sure and then its vacant and we have the potential problem of neighborhood kids turning the house into a paintball arena.

I saw that in a fantastic two story home with an amazing backyard, this house was to die for, a million dollar home and the neighborhood kids turned this house into a paintball arena. Now I am not going to lie, that might have been fun when I was a kid, but this house was trashed, wires hanging out, I mean it was just an absolute mess. The lenders dont want that, you dont want that. They need to take action they need to call you.

Yes educate yourself and call someone today. Folks its important to point out today that I would like to see you call Kalyn and Jeri for this because I know, I have seen their track record. I know their close ratio and I know that they generally care about you and your needs first, but if you have someone who does this and youre contemplating it, if you have a sale date coming up, you need to take action. Move on with your life, put this part of your life behind you.

One of the things to and we dont want to get to deep into this, Jeri or Kalyn, but after the short sale is done its all said and done, you have an affiliation with people who can help them out in getting their credit repaired and ready to go. We do, we really pride ourselves on being a one stop shop, so we help educate them, if its going to be a loan modification or a short sale once they get through the process then we begin working with them on credit repair. We have a program that we work ourselves, and if its a really sticky issue with your credit we have people that we work very closely with that we will refer you to, we also have a team that includes a bankruptcy attorney, a real estate attorney and a real estate CPA… http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com/avoid-a-foreclosure-short-sale-your-home-%E2%80%93-save-your-credit/

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Part 4 – The lenders, its the loss mitigation departments that youre dealing directly, with the two of you doing the negotiations on behalf of the homeowner. Good, and then do you contact the lender immediately when someone calls you, and were going to talk about when they should call you in just a few minutes, but when the homeowner calls you do you immediately contact the lender and find out when the foreclosure date is and try to get that pushed back?

We do that as soon as possible, we can check the foreclosure date on tax records, if there is one that has been set, but there is some paperwork that is involved before we can contact the lender, because the lender will not just speak to anyone on behalf of the homeowner. You can get a lawyer and they will not talk to your lawyer unless they have authorization in writing from you the homeowner to speak about their financial situation and their mortgage on their behalf. So we do have some paperwork that we have clients do and the first thing is the authorization letter, as soon as we have that we can begin speaking to them on your behalf.

So Kalyn the next question is, when should someone start the process? Now. Honestly if youre listening to us right now and this is striking any sort of nerve you should be calling us. If you have concerns about being able to afford your home, or you cant sell it, if youre in a situation like going through a divorce, going through relocation like Jeri mentioned, all of these situations are possible short sales and you definitely should be on the phone now because too many times we see where people are in denial of whatever the situation may be and finally they are two weeks before foreclosure date and they are calling us.

We dont have enough time with just two weeks. There is too much involved for us to get the foreclosure extended, get an offer, get all the things that are included when you only give us to weeks, and then where are you, a lot of the time they dont even have a place lined up, and if you have a foreclosure on your record its a lot harder to get a rental.

Yes the foreclosure has significant impact on your credit report where as a short sale could be potentially much better. Maybe the foreclosure process will be started during the short sale process but not having it completed is better than having an actual foreclosure on your record.

Absolutely, the foreclosure proceedings started will not even show on a credit check if a landlord or a management company is pulling your credit to approve you for a rental, but its the worst thing in the world if you have gone through a foreclosure and youre just now calling us. I have some clients who need to be in a house this weekend and they have a foreclosure. They contacted me after the foreclosure had gone through and you would think that people would understand with the number of foreclosures going on that would not be as harsh on your credit but its. Were having a really difficult time finding landlords that will accept people who have foreclosures on their credit.

Me as a landlord, my wife and I have several rentals and I were to look at a credit report and see that a foreclosure proceeding had been started but the homeowner and potential renter says, we started it but we were able to sell the house short so we didnt have to go ahead with the foreclosure. That absolutely would be someone that I would consider over someone that had a foreclosure because it shows that they care, they certainly tried their very best, so I would think that is a great situation to be in. So two weeks left before your sale date is too late, its not going to work out.

Well I have recently done one in ten days. So it can be done, I had a one ten days before the foreclosure date and I had the bank put out the foreclosure date about a month and a half and we will close a short sale on that. 90% of the time though we wont be able to help you with that little of time.

Well the hardest part about the process is the beginning process, getting the lender to even acknowledge that they have received the authorization letter or the information packet that we have sent, the financials and the offer. You have to understand that lenders have thousands of foreclosures going on and they may have 20 bulk fax machines in their offices and as the paperwork comes through if its not that persons paperwork it may get tossed. That process alone can take 30 days before they even tell us they got what they need… http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com/if-facing-foreclosure-call-a-short-sale-expert/

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Part 7 – Were in the studio today with Kalyn Roberts and Jeri League of the Dreamvesting Group, these two young ladies are experts in the short sale area, they are NOT going to tell you what you want to hear, they are going to tell you what you need to hear. There is a big difference between what you want and what you need in the case of getting out of a situation. We talked during the break about the different types of people; who qualifies, who doesn’t qualify, who this is good for, and who its not good for. I want you to talk about people who are upside down and how you’re here to help.

What we want to get across today if you just need to call someone if you’re upside down in your mortgage, if you have a listing next door and its a bank owned or short sale, there is a good chance you’re probably upside down in you mortgage if you bought anytime in the last, in the last 5 years were almost back to 2003 pricing now.

Just to jump in real quick, Jeri and Kalyn its not just the people who purchased, its the people who used their homes as ATMs which is a crude way for me to say it but lets be honest. You watch the television, and I am not going to name any names, but a company that rhymes with lie-tech though, they have a commercial where they are showing pictures of using your home to buy a big boat and everybody got sucked into that and now here were.

Yes, if you used your second mortgage to build that big beautiful pool in your backyard, maybe you need to call us. Yes, its unfortunate, we always tell everyone like you just said, everybody got sucked into it, it doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it doesn’t mean you necessarily made a really bad decision. Most people got caught up in the real estate market and good marketing ploys like that, and the bottom line is as we said earlier you dont have to be late on your mortgage payment, you don’t have to be facing a foreclosure, if you’re simply upside down because you refinanced your home or purchased too recently and the house next door is selling for $100,000 less than yours and you just need to get out of a bad financial situation, you’re a candidate for a short sale or even a loan modification.

One of the things about loan modifications that I hear all the time is, and I research other loan modification companies, and what I hear is they are telling people things that just aren’t real. For instance if your owe $400,000 and your house is worth $300,000 and you want your lender to forgive $100,000 on a loan modification, chances are that isnt going to happen, whereas with a short sale, when youre exiting the property because it just isnt going to work, they would in most cases consider doing that.

Absolutely if that is the market value of your home they are going to consider the bottom line, the banks dont want these properties back, it costs them so much money to go through a foreclosure process and as our prices are falling, monthly, weekly, daily, the likelihood of the value of the property being extremely lower by the time they get the property back is 100%.

In addition to the $60,000 in foreclosure cost, paying real estate commissions and a few other fees is significantly better, because the loss is going to be significantly less with a short sale. Heres a question and I hope that I am not putting either of you on the spot, but suppose the guy owes $400,000 on his house, lets just say its worth $300,000 and you get the listing and this guy is out at a cocktail party and his cousin shows up and says, Ill buy the house from you. Ill buy the house from you, we will make the bank pay the difference and Ill just let you stay in the house. Is that a realistic situation, is someone going to find out about it? Is it good to do that or not?

In real estate, real estate purchases and transactions have to be non-arms length. Now arms length is described as your parents and your children, other than that we pretty much stay out of it because theoretically, yes that could happen, however the banks want to see that the homeowner is not benefiting, so the homeowner would have to become a tenant and be paying rent to new owner at that point. So there are many legitimate situations where you could meet someone who would buy the home and allow you to stay in the home… http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com/a-short-sale-is-significantly-cheaper-than-a-foreclosure/

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Why are the pundits predicting at least 12,000,000 loan modifications in 2009? Simple it’s in the best interest of the bank to work with an existing homeowner who wants to pay(even if it’s less) a mortgage payment and stay in their home than try to find someone after spending thousands of dollars foreclosing and hope that they can find someone who wants the house and qualifies to buy it.

Loan modifications are done at no charge by HUD approved counselors, there is no need to pay a fee to so called “loan modification experts” that you see on the internet and on YouTube. Don’t fall victim to another scam, contact a HUD approved counserlor if you need a loan modification.

Avoid foreclosure, deed in lieu and stay in your home. The banks are realizing that they are far better off working with an existing homeowner in restructuring the mortgage than taking the home back through the foreclosure process. Foreclosed homes hurt the banks ability to borrow money and become a problem in maintaining. Foreclosed homes now need to be boarded up and maintained by the bank, they have to have them inspected at least every 30 days to see if there has been any vandalism. Foreclosed homes then need to be marketed thru realtors and they have to pay commissions not to mention the cost of foreclosing on the home in the first place.

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