Is a Monkey Negotiating Your Sacramento Short Sale?

Much of my work as a Sacramento short sale agent is handled through email. So, I almost had a heart attack when I turned on my computer this morning. My start-up programs loaded and I didn't have any emails. For a brief second, my heart about exploded. My immediate thought was my computer had malfunctioned, maybe my hard drive had been erased. Of course, nothing of the sort happened. I simply had too many emails coming in for the computer to immediately bring them up. I wasn't patient enough.

Many of those emails are one-liners that say: Thank you. Or will do. While it's nice to receive acknowledgments, they aren't always necessary, and those emails certainly don't require a response; yet, I am guilty of doing the same thing. It depends on, though, whom the email is from. If it's from clients, I do want them to know that I have received their documents. But I don't try to clog up my associates' or vendors' email in-boxes. I imagine they get as much email as I do.

I negotiate just about all of my short sales myself. Especially my favorite, Bank of America short sales, because I've been working with Bank of America for years and understand its goofy systems. Since they've switched to Equator, the short sale process has been easier and faster. I also love, love, love a Wachovia short sale because they are so straight forward and simple, which few short sales are lately. Wachovia also gives my sellers cash bonuses.

Every so often a client will contact me who wants to hire a lawyer. I have a list of competent lawyers I refer.

So, if your short sale isn't moving forward, I suggest you take a look at who is negotiating your sale. Is it a third-party vendor that runs a short sale mill by volume, without personal attention to each file? Is it an agent without any experience? An agent who is too swamped with business to do the job right? Has your short sale dropped into a black hole never again to see the light of day? Because my Sacramento short sales tend to close. I've got a great team. I mean, am I lucky or what?

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