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gainesville short sale agent: My 31 Days of December Challenge--Day #16 - 12/16/10 04:25 PM
December 16th is one of my favorite days of the holiday season. It's my Dad's birthday. And even though Dad isn't alive anymore, I still hold his birthday as a special day. And today, I think Dad would be proud.
Early this morning I awoke to find a great offer on my Haymarket Short Sale. This is a listing that has puzzled me since it hit the market. It is tenant occupied, but is a very desirable home to first time buyers. Since the tenants' lease conveys, we've had no takers. Not even an investor has stepped forward to write an offer. So … (7 comments)
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gainesville short sale agent: Listing and Selling Short Sales are Easier When You Have Systems in Place - 11/30/09 11:17 AM
Listing and selling short sales are easier when you have systems in place. As an experienced Gainesville, VA short sale listing agent, I can tell you that there are certain practices that are a matter of routine that make getting that short sale approval much easier.
Even something as simple as household chores are easier, and faster, when you have systems in place. Take the Cleland family morning routine: a routine that serves two adults, five indoor cats and one outdoor cat. There are several things happening at once, but in a relatively small space. Indoor cat dishes are cleaned and replenished, … (6 comments)
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gainesville short sale agent: Wells Fargo Short Sale Call Center: Don't You Realize All of Us Out Here Own Clocks? - 11/30/09 10:34 AM
Wells Fargo's home equity short sale call center must not realize that I, and others that may be calling them, own clocks. Why? I called at 11:15am, Eastern Time, and received the following message:
We're sorry. Wells Fargo's call center is closed. Please call back during our regular business hours: Monday thorugh Friday, 8am-6pm Central Time.
Admittedly, I'm not the genius that Albert Einstein was, but I think I know how to tell time across time zones. Central time is one hour behind Eastern time. So I was calling at 10:15am Central time. That's over TWO HOURS past the start of … (9 comments)
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gainesville short sale agent: Short Sale Settlements are Best Split - 11/23/09 09:09 AM
Short Sale Settlements are Best Split.
As a Gainesville, VA short sale agent, I am happy to report that I have been to many short sale settlements in 2009. (Yes, these short sales do indeed get approved and go to settlement.) As I usually represent the short sale sellers, I know that the emotions are bittersweet.
Most short sale sellers do not want to sell their house. They love their house. However, the home has become unaffordable and the sellers will generally find themselves financially insolvent. If they could stay in that house, they would. Short sale is the best possible solution … (12 comments)
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gainesville short sale agent: What Does a Sick Cat Have in Common with a Bank of America Short Sale? - 11/16/09 09:57 AM
Ah, Sunday. A day for me. A day to do whatever I wanted. No Bank of America short sales to deal with on MY day. I had nowhere to be. No one to meet. My time was my own, and I made good use of it. I did laundry, cooked, and worked on my 2010 busines plan. I even had my trash and recycle out at the curb at a reasonable hour. I wasn't scrambling to get it together at Midnight after startling awake on my couch.
What I was not expecting, was to have a cat with diarrhea at 10pm. Diarrhea … (14 comments)
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gainesville short sale agent: Top Ten Reasons to Buy this Bristow Short Sale: #1 - 10/05/09 12:08 AM
There are ten great reaons to buy this Bristow Short Sale. Previous reasons will have links at the bottom of the post. This post is reason #1.
#1 - YOU'LL HAVE AN EXPERIENCED SHORT SALE AGENT WORKING WITH THE BANKS FOR APPROVAL.
Don't let the fact that this is a short sale scare you off from writing an offer on this Bristow brick colonial. At $399,000, we've priced this home at market value.
As a short sale specialist, I've closed short sale after short sale this year.
If you are going to right an offer on a short sale, at least … (2 comments)
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gainesville short sale agent: Top Ten Reasons to Buy this Bristow Short Sale: #2 - 10/05/09 12:07 AM
There are ten great reaons to buy this Bristow Short Sale. Previous reasons will have links at the bottom of the post. This post is reason #2.
#2 - PRE-SETTLEMENT OCCUPANCY AVAILABLE!
This Bristow short sale (listed for $399,000) offers something for the patient short sale buyer that many short sales don't: pre-settlement occupancy. While you wait the required time for short sale approval, the home owners will be happy to let you move in once pre-settlement occupancy terms are negotiated. There is no danger of this home going to foreclosure either. The home owner is not delinquent on mortgage payments.
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gainesville short sale agent: Top Ten Reasons to Buy this Bristow Short Sale: #3 - 10/05/09 12:07 AM
There are ten great reaons to buy this Bristow Short Sale. Previous reasons will have links at the bottom of the post. This post is reason #3.
#3 - OPEN MAIN LEVEL FLOOR PLAN
When you buy this Bristow short sale, listed for $399,000, you'll love the open floor plan. The formal living and dining rooms are open to one another, and to the right of the two story foyer. To the left of the two story foyer is a study behind glass French doors.
The informal areas of the home are in the … (2 comments)
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gainesville short sale agent: Top Ten Reasons to Buy this Bristow Short Sale: #4 - 10/05/09 12:06 AM
There are ten great reaons to buy this Bristow Short Sale. Previous reasons will have links at the bottom of the post. This post is reason #4.
#4 - FOUR BEDROOMS ON THE SECOND LEVEL, ONE BEING A LUXURY MASTER SUITE.
When you buy this Bristow, VA short sale (priced at $399,000), you'll have a lovely brick front colonial with four bedrooms on the second level. They are all generously sized, three of which share one full bathroom. Then there is the Master Suite.
The Master Suite has it all. A large bedroom with a walk-in closet, all … (2 comments)
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gainesville short sale agent: Top Ten Reasons to Buy this Bristow Short Sale: #6 - 10/05/09 12:04 AM
There are ten great reaons to buy this Bristow Short Sale. Previous reasons will have links at the bottom of the post. This post is reason #6.
#6 - THE OUTDOOR SPACE
This Bristow short sale (priced at $399,000) lovely four bedroom colonial with over 4400 finished square feet of living space on three levels, has much to offer outside. The home is situated on a cul-de-sac lot, but that is covered in Reason #8. Let's start here with the fact that the backyard is fully fenced with two gates, one on each side of the home.
The backyard is … (0 comments)
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gainesville short sale agent: Top Ten Reasons to Buy this Bristow Short Sale: #7 - 10/05/09 12:04 AM
There are ten great reaons to buy this Bristow Short Sale. Previous reasons will have links at the bottom of the post. This post is reason #7.
#7 - BUYING IN AN ESTABLISHED NEIGBHORHOOD
When you buy this Bristow short sale, priced at $399,000, with three fully finished levels, four bedrooms and three and half bathrooms, you'll be buying in the established neighborhood of Kingsbrooke. In fact, this home was built in 1998. Sure. It's not the newest home in the Bristow-Gainesville area, but you'll have mature trees that actually give you shade. You'll have neighbors when you move in.
When … (2 comments)
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gainesville short sale agent: Top Ten Reasons to Buy this Bristow Short Sale: #9 - 10/05/09 12:03 AM
There are ten great reaons to buy this Bristow Short Sale, priced at $399,000. Previous reasons will have links at the bottom of the post. This post is reason #9.
#9 - ENJOY AN EASY COMMUTE!
Prince William County has some problem areas from which to commute. Bristow, where this lovely four bedroom colonial is located, is not one of them. Live close to Routes 28, 29 and 66. Or if you prefer public transportation into the Arlington and Washington, DC area, your new home is located within five miles of the VRE (Virginia Railway Express).
Route 66 East widens to four … (0 comments)
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Chris Ann Cleland, Associate Broker, Northern VA
Bristow,
VA
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