Fred Strickroot of HomeNet and the HomeNet "YOU" Team is a certified Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternative (HAFA) and short sale specialist serving the Tampa Bay, Florida areas of Hernando, Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas counties. In this forum, Fred Strickroot will provide information and respond to questions that the community has regarding foreclosure alternatives. If you are behind on your mortgage payment, and experienced some form of hardship making it difficult to pay your current mortgage, you may qualify for alternatives including modification, short sale, or deed in lieu of foreclosure. Fred will answer questions and continue to post topics based on his knowledge of the most common concerns home sellers have regarding foreclosure alternatives.
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FREQUENT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
QUESTION 1: A common question that I get from customers is how long does it take to close a short sale?
ANSWER: There is no set period of time, although the process is becoming more streamlined. Many of the lenders are becoming more “short sale” friendly, and are improving their systems to accommodate the processing of short sales. As a guideline, I always tell my customer that it will be a minimum of 45 days. The circumstances surrounding the short sale such as junior liens will lead to delays since junior lien holders will usually have to agree to accept a lower amount because there is no equity in the home to pay out.
IMPORTANT: Junior lien holders do NOT have to agree to take less then they are owed, however, it might be to their advantage to accept what they can get in a short sale transaction since foreclosure may leave them zero return.
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