Melissa Zavala: San Diego County Broker, Speaker, Author

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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Broadpoint Properties - Cal BRE #01324959

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2010 

FREE Short Sale Class at San Diego Association of Realtors® You are invited to a free short sale class at the San Diego Association of Realtors®. When:  August 25th To wet your appetite, here's some information about the course: Learn to CRUSH IT in Real Estate! Close Lots of Deals, Earn Lots of ...
08/17/2010
If you are processing short sales regularly, then you are already familiar with the word ‘Equator.' You saw the title of the post, Short Sales and Equator, and you were not thinking about any other hemisphere. That's good; you are one step closer to short sale success. Equator is an Internet-base...
08/17/2010
Escondido short sales are really not as bad as the media leads you to believe. If you are a home owner and you live in the city of Escondido and you need to sell your home right now, it is possible that you may need to participate in a short sale. A short sale is a real estate transaction in whic...
08/17/2010
Escondido Home Seller If you follow my blog, you may have read that our office is managing quite a few upcoming auction dates on many of our short sales. We have 27 foreclosures scheduled for this month. And, knock on wood, as of today, all of our auction sale dates have been postponed. I have an...
08/16/2010
Hi, folks. This is me blogging. No holds barred. I was sitting at my computer this morning making a list of all of the things that I want and need to do this week. Staring back at me was this picture of a lion which is a portion of a postcard that my husband sent from an Africa safari he took a f...
08/15/2010
I received a call the other day from a lovely gentleman from San Marcos. He is a home seller who had some good questions about the short sale transaction. His first question was about the time frame. "From the time I list the property," he wondered, "how long will it take for the short sale to be...
08/15/2010
What is a short sale package? If you are a seller who is selling your home in a short sale transaction, then you will need to submit to your mortgage lender (or lenders) a certain number of items in order for the lender to consider you for a short sale. Short sales are subject to mortgage lender ...
08/14/2010
This week I wrote a letter to my friend, the CEO of GMAC mortgage because one of his employees wasn't responding to my phone calls and emails. As a result, I may have gotten a few people a little bit upset with me. I also told my youngest that he had to get back to the books. School is starting s...
08/12/2010
You're Invited! It may be hard to believe, but there is an art to working the short sale. From taking the listing to opening escrow, certain techniques can be used to make the transaction move along more quickly and efficiently. And . . . if you have been anywhere near a newspaper or the Internet...
08/11/2010
The last two weeks have been great. The weather in Escondido has not been too warm. Usually, it is much warmer at this time of year. I attended RainCamp in San Diego and learned lots and met some new AR friends. Also, so far we have postponed all of our 27 foreclosure sales that were scheduled fo...
08/10/2010
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Melissa Zavala

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