Kevin Kauffman's (kevinlkauffman) Blog

Happy New Year from Group 46:10! We wanted to wish all of you a happy 2011 and remind you on this holiday that it is a good time to email your bank contacts to get autoresponder emails with more contact information. Do you have questions? Read the Short sale FAQs. Are you a Realtor? Then get free...

Yesterdat we talked about the uneducation level of tax laws and tax consequences among short sale agents and homeowners. Something else that falls into this same category is credit and FICO scores. We don't know who is spreading rumors about how many points a short sale will cost, but nobody real...

We wanted to cover a topic today that is severly misunderstood in the real estate industry. It has to do with information that realtors should be giving to homeowners. Let us first say that we are not tax experts, accountants, or CPA's. However, we are tired of realtors and the media giving bad a...

I love this simple explanation of twitter and some very simple techniques or points on how to use it effectively.  I my experience most people way over think twitter and over time a great number of people get frustrated with it.     Great post to share.Yesterday I posted a blog titled:  What Do Y...

I guess we will talk about one of the more exciting short sale files that we have worked on recently. It didn't take very long and it wasn't very difficult, but it was exciting how we went about closing the transaction. Here are the details. First mortgage servicer, Bank of America. Investor, Ban...

Good Morning! We hope that you had a fantastic Christmas. Today is mindset monday. There probably aren't many people watching because it's the day after Christmas. However, we would like to talk about opposition. In the three years that we have worked together, we have faced some opposition. In p...

Fred and Kevin would like to wish you a Merry Christmas! Have a safe and happy holiday season!

On Monday we promised a week full of great stories. Lots of you have stated that you learn the most from us when we give real life examples of our short sale deals. We do our best to give you real life examples because we are in the trenches negotiating short sales. We had a file with OneWest ban...

As promised yesterday, we are going to fill the week with great content stories. Let's start with a Wells Fargo Story. We have a loan that is serviced by Wells Fargo. Freddie Mac is the investor. As is often the case, the property was overvalued. We submitted some comps to the bank and asked the ...

We'd like to talk about the energy level around this business as we get closer to 2011. We have worked hard to do lots of restructuring in our business. We wanted to make sure that everybody has a focus and energy in their business to start 2011. We don't just mean in January. If we are being hon...