For those of us who work with short sales we know Countrywide is synonyms for incompetence but I could not be happier as I type this message. Countrywide approved my latest short sale is less than 40 days! That might sound like a lot of time, for normal banks, but Contrywide (definitely NOT normal) does everything differently.

The now 4 negotiators that now work on every file, are likely not to be in the same state so the file moves around from Texas, to Nevada and California. You can imagine what that does to a file!! Too many hands touch it, documents are often lost and communication can be a challenge.

I don't know if I got lucky, was persistent and consistent on my follow up, if my short sale package was really good or all of those things but I am sure happy to have secured an approval so fast.