avoid foreclosure: South Florida Short Sale approval in 14 days! - 10/25/11 06:01 PM
South Florida Short Sale approval in 14 days!
It's always nice when a Short Sale is approved in a quick time period, such as 14 days, AND the Seller is relieved of any deficiency balance of their outstanding mortgage balance. I just love it when the South Florida Short Sale
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avoid foreclosure: Short Sale Road Blocks when selling your home as a Short Sale - 10/23/11 05:02 PM
What can you expect when you're selling your home as a Short Sale here in South Florida? Are there any Road Blocks to expect along the way? Short Sales are closing here in Coral Springs and South Florida when you have a determined and knowledgeable Short Sale Specialist on your
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avoid foreclosure: Who comes out on top of a Foreclosure? Lower priced homes or higher priced homes. - 10/20/11 05:47 PM
Who comes out on top of a Foreclosure? Lower priced homes or higher priced homes.
Ever wonder how many lower priced homes below $50,000 are foreclosed on when higher priced homes are not foreclosed on? If I had to guess as I don't know the statistics, I'd say by a
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avoid foreclosure: Who is watching over the List price of your Short Sale? Do you need a Guardian Angel? - 09/07/11 04:08 PM
Who is watching over the List price of your Short Sale? Do you need a Guardian Angel?
My exasperation and disbelief has hit me again as I search for homes for my Buyers to view only to run across Short Sales that have been listed for months on end
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avoid foreclosure: Can I be current on my Mortgage payment and do a Short Sale? - 09/07/11 11:54 AM
Can I be current on my Mortgage payment and do a Short Sale? When distressed Sellers are considering selling their home as a Short Sale there are always so many questions and it's not always easy to find the answers as there are a lot of opinions out there that
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avoid foreclosure: Wounded Sellers - what can they do? - 08/17/11 07:25 PM
Wounded Sellers seem to be everywhere in today's Real Estate Market. Whether it's a distressed Seller trying to avoid foreclosure or a non-distressed Seller trying to get their home sold; they're both wounded.
I have represented many Short Sale Sellers here in South Florida and the wounds can
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avoid foreclosure: How to handle bad news - 05/07/11 07:50 PM
How to handle bad news
A well known statistic, commonly reported on, yet so hard to believe: 70% of all homeowners who had homes foreclosed on in 2010 never even listed their home for sale. WHY? Why oh Why?!
It's human nature to want to avoid unpleasant circumstances and being
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avoid foreclosure: UPDATE: Hours away from Foreclosure Auction - can it be stopped? - 03/10/10 03:21 PM
It's a great day! I posted on this Short Sale property yesterday here in Coral Springs Florida in regards to trying to get the foreclosure auction sale date stopped today - we did it; Foreclosure auction sale scheduled for today has been postponed.
In addition, I also received Bank of America's
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avoid foreclosure: Hours away from Foreclosure Auction - can it be stopped? - 03/09/10 08:11 PM
What a duzzie....I've been working this Short Sale and have reported on it here in another post in regards to the difficulty in getting this property to close by just trying to find a Lender who will lend in the deliquent condo community. Well, two Buyers later with the 2nd Buyer having
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avoid foreclosure: How do Short Sales in Coral Springs close? Homeowner saved from foreclosure - 03/07/10 07:18 PM
I'm happy to report another Short Sale closing here in Coral Springs Florida. Was it without obstacles? No, are short sales ever? Was the distressed homeowner pleased beyond words in knowing that she avoided the threatening, what seemed liked ever present, pending foreclosure - absolutely!
The sale was progressing along after I
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avoid foreclosure: "Skip the Shortcut of a Short Sale" - 01/10/10 12:32 PM
Reading the Sunday morning newspaper, yes, I still read the newspaper, I can across an article entitled " Yes, your credit can bounce back "as written by Sharon Epperson in USA Weekend. All was good as I was reading along as she was providing some good credit repair advice until I came
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avoid foreclosure: "I just can't make my mortgage payments any longer" - Is this you? - 11/14/09 10:19 PM
Act now and avoid foreclosure.
Times are really tough. Unemployment rates have reached double digits. More and more families are
struggling to make ends meet. Many of you in Coral Springs and surrounding Broward County cities
need to sell your homes but you owe more than what your home is worth. What
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avoid foreclosure: What happens when your Lender denies your Home Loan modification? - 10/31/09 06:56 PM
Have you been going back and forth with your Lender trying to get your loan modified? Have you sent in all of your required financial documents for them to consider modifying your loan, such as:
Pay stubs, bank statements, tax returns, income & expense statement, hardship letter and any other document
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avoid foreclosure: What happens when you specialize in Short Sales? - 09/06/09 10:16 PM
I've been reading here on AR the why's of why we participate in Short Sales. I just read Broker Bryants post and it moved me to elaborate here myself.
As many have said it's not just about earning a living. It is oh so much more. To play an active part
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avoid foreclosure: Steps to overcome Short Sale Anxiety - 08/16/09 09:50 PM
Did you know that Anxieties plague roughly 19.1 million Americans? There are many types of anxieties and levels of severity. This discussion will be on a less severe form, yet prevalent in today's Real Estate market with the growing number of foreclosures affecting millions nationwide.
Anxiety defined by Wiktionary: An unpleasant state of
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avoid foreclosure: Don't let your home be foreclosed on! - 06/27/09 01:09 PM
It has happened again. In reading the Sun Sentinel Broward County edition this morning, another story appeared where a struggling young couple was supposed to have lost their home at auction on Friday due to their home being in foreclosure. What's worse is that this is a young Marine who was stationed in Fallujah,
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avoid foreclosure: "It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things"... - 06/24/09 10:58 PM
... as quoted by Henry David Thoreau.
We all like to think of ourselves as being wise and doing the right thing. What is it about life's desperate times that throws our wisdom out the window?
Many are experiencing very trying times as unemployment rates increase. Here in Florida they're approaching
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avoid foreclosure: My Short Sale Seller got a check at closing! - 05/17/09 05:31 PM
I just closed on a HUD approved Short Sale. As part of its Pre Foreclosure Sale program, Sellers are entitled to an incentive to avoid foreclosure.
The max that they could have received was $750 as an incentive. However, there were costs on the settlement statement that weren't allowed totaling
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avoid foreclosure: I couldn't help this time - 04/27/09 09:53 PM
I've been very fortunate to obtain a lot of business from Active Rain and have been rewarded many times over by helping many a distressed homeowner. However, a recent event left me feeling really bad that I couldn't help.
An out of state distressed homeowner found me online here at Active
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avoid foreclosure: Coral Springs CDPE Certified Distressed Property Expert - 03/26/09 12:54 PM
I recently earned the designation of CDPE - Certified Distressed Property Expert.
I have chosen to do all that I can to help out the distressed homeowner save their home from foreclosure; I do this by listing their home for sale as a Short Sale and selling it prior to the
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