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Name: Matthew Heitmann
Company: AcQuity Investments
E-mail: Contact Matthew Heitmann (AcQuity Investments)
Website: http://AcQuityInvestments.Com
Office Phone: (877) 219-9888 x 701
Cell Phone: (608) 347-4196
Alt. Phone: (608) 541-8105
Fax: (877) 219-9888
Address: PO Box 620205, Middleton, WI, 53562
Description: ----We negotiate short sales for home owners. Ask me about our available discounted homes!- We pay referrals & commissions!- Do you have a listing that may go to foreclosure? No equity, call us!----

About Us:

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How does this work?

It's a fairly simple process. You fill out our confidential analysis form, forwarding some basic information about your property. We will quickly work to analyze the situation & provide you with a no cost solution within 24 hours. You are never obligated to accept any offer or solution, and all information is kept strictly confidential.

What can I do if I'm in foreclosure?

Make the payments - Your best option of course is to bring your mortgage current by paying back payments (arrears) due and any interest or fees assessed. If you are only behind a payment or two, talk to your lender. They will help you set up a payment plan to get caught up, save your home and save your credit.
Sell your home - If you have suffered a life altering occurrence (job loss, injury, divorce, death of spouse, etc) and cannot make payments, list your home with a local Realtor® and try to sell it. AcQuity has licensed Realtors® on our staff that will take care of all of the details. Simply contact us for a FREE property evaluation. It is important that you make this call early in your foreclosure process.
Work with AcQuity Investments: OUR SERVICES ARE FREE - AcQuity Investments will work with your bank and buy your home directly from them. This is called a Short Sale.

If you owe more than the house is worth, and/or have a second or third mortgage, you want to avoid foreclosure and bankruptcy and get a fresh start, a short sale may be your best option. It does require you to vacate the home, but it will prevent further credit damage, stop foreclosure and allow you to move forward with your life. We will help you get settled in another affordable home of your choosing, quickly and discretely. Contact us today for a free consultation. Learn more about Short Sales..

If you are not falling behind, but need to sell quickly

Speed sale - We have an innovative process in selling a property fast - an intensive marketing campaign designed to drive buyers to a home in just 10-14 days. Sell It Sunday blends a high visibility online and offline marketing campaign to make sure buyers will come to the door. The event culminates in a two day inspection hosted at the property where potential buyers bid on the home. The inspection is followed by a phone bidding process to drive the price up as high as possible. Just ask for details or visit the site of our sister company: Sell it Sunday.

What if my house is listed with a real estate agent?

We welcome realtors to work with us every day. We not only take care of the issues associated with the house, we also cover the realtor's commission. With our processes, everyone wins. Have your Realtor contact us today.

Do you only buy single-family houses?

We currently specialize in assisting owners of single- and multi-family homes throughout the US.

How much do you charge?

There are no fees associated with our short sale services, or in purchasing your home - EVER.

If I fill out the online analysis form, am I obligated to anything?

There is never any obligation for you to accept our offer or solutions. The only time you would be obligated to anything is if you enter into a contractual agreement with us, just as with any other real estate transaction. And even in this scenario, if we have negotiated the short sale with the lender, and you no longer wish to pursue that process, you have the option of ending the agreement without obligation.

Where does my information go when I fill out the analysis form?

Your information is only provided to AcQuity Investments. We then quickly analyze the details and determine which options will provide a win-win solution for your specific situation. All personal details are kept strictly confidential and are not shared with any parties without your permission.

What if my house is in need of repairs?

We are investors who also handle rehabs & restorations, so it's unnecessary for you to take the time to work on your house. We'll take care of any needed repairs.

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We specialize in negotiating short sales & finding end buyers quickly through our customized speed sales.

Visit our sister company at www.sellitsunday.com for more details on our speed sales!

Who is Sell It Sunday?

Sell It Sunday.com provides Exit Strategy Consulting to Banks, Builders, Investors, Real Estate Professionals and Consumers. Our team of experienced investors and business consultants can help companies exit out of portfolio properties. Whether the property is a performing or non-performing asset, our systems will help move your business forward.

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What is a Sell It Sunday Speed Sale? A Speed Sale is an intensive marketing campaign designed to drive buyers to a home in just 10-14 days. Sell It Sunday blends a high visibility online and offline marketing campaign to make sure buyers will come to the door. The event culminates in a two day inspection hosted at the property where potential buyers bid on the home. The inspection is followed by a phone bidding process to drive the price up as high as possible. The buyer is than expected to deliver a purchase agreement and earnest money. If the price and terms are agreeable the property proceeds to close.

Why Would I Use a Speed Sale®?

A Speed Sale® works FAST! With the current trend in real estate homes are sitting on the market 6, 9, 12 even 18 months. Our marketing system helps drive buyers to your door in just 10-14 days of advertising.
A Speed Sale® eliminates the headaches of a traditional sale! If you've ever sold a home with the traditional model, you know how much effort it is to keep your home in pristine shape for showings, how difficult it is to drag your family out of the house on short notice, and how exhausting it can be trying to find out why no one is buying your home. Our marketing system does it all in one weekend.

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Frequently Asked Questions

If the bids are too low, do I have to sell my home? No. We'll show you how to put mechanisms in place to protect yourself.
I'm not comfortable selling my own home. Can I get help? Absolutely. Sell It Sunday will work with your current agent or provide you with one of our certified Sell It Sunday agents to perform your sale.
I've heard auction-like sales never bring in good prices. Can I afford to sell this way? Educated sellers understand that time is money. Selling now for a fair price usually will net you more money than listing your property and waiting for months on end.

We were ready to take an offer on our Mother's home from a local investor.We talked to John at Sell It Sunday.com and decided to give a Speed Sale a try.In just two weeks we ran the sale, had over 100 people with 15 bidders and we sold the home for $16,000 more than the offer we had in hand.Thank you!

Amy T. Brooklyn Park, MN

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An article from the Ithsmus
It's possible to negotiate solutions short of foreclosure

http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=22573

Housing: Help out of the subprime crisis

Mary Ellen Bell on Thursday 05/08/2008 , (3) Recommendations

Alicia Emerson always dreamed about owning her own home. But what she bought was a house of cards.

Looking back on her experience, Emerson realizes she was too trusting of promises made by the Minnesota-based mortgage

company that approved a $248,000 loan for her and her boyfriend even though their joint income was less than $50,000 a

year. Now she gets it - she signed up for a subprime mortgage.

"They told us we could refinance when the construction was finished with a negative amortization mortgage, which would

make our payments between $800 and $900 a month," says Emerson, a former medical transcriptionist for University

Hospital and Clinics. "But when the time came, they told us that kind of loan was no longer available, and our payments

were going to be $1,700 a month. There was no way we could afford that."

The hot housing market fueled an explosion of high-risk subprime mortgage loans. People with no down payment and an

income too low to qualify for a standard "prime" mortgage found they could get a home loan with a low introductory interest

rate and the promise that they could refinance when that rate expired.

Underlying this whole scheme was the assumption that the housing boom would never end and houses would continue to

increase in value. It was a bad bet.

Last year, many subprime borrowers discovered they couldn't refinance because their houses had lost value, so now they

owed more than their properties were worth. This caused a nationwide spike in foreclosures - nearly 1.3 million in 2007,

an increase of 79% over 2006 - and added tremors to an already shaky economy.

Emerson and her boyfriend moved into their new Mount Horeb house in August 2006. Faced with payments they couldn't

afford, they tried and failed to find a housemate. They also tried selling the house, and found they couldn't do that either.

They were trying to refinance to a loan with lower payments when Alicia's boyfriend lost his job. She ended up taking out a

new mortgage in her name alone, from a different lender, with payments of $1,100 a month. She also took out a second

mortgage for $28,000 to help her catch up on other financial obligations.

Then, Emerson and her boyfriend spilt up. She was left with a house and a mortgage she could not afford.

"It was awful," she recalls. "I was living in the biggest mistake of my entire life, and I didn't know what to do about it."

According to the Dane County Housing Authority, 513 foreclosure sales were scheduled in 2007, up from 286 in 2006.

Emerson's house wasn't one of them. Before a foreclosure sale was scheduled, her house was purchased from her mortgage

company as a "short sale." She thinks the buyer got it for about $100,000 less than its market value.

AcQuity Property Investments, a company with offices in Wisconsin and Minnesota, arranged the short sale. AcQuity buys

homes that are going into foreclosure and resells them to investors. In Madison, Lisa Peterson and her husband, Michael

Meister, handle the company's acquisitions.

Peterson estimates that AcQuity currently has about 50 active transactions in the Madison area and finds 30 to 50 potential

clients each week by reviewing court records.

"Our focus is on helping people who are having trouble with their mortgages," Peterson explains. "We help them avoid

foreclosure and credit problems by selling their home quickly."

Three years ago, Peterson and her husband got into trouble with their own home payments after a publishing venture failed.

They had to turn to family for help. The experience gave them an idea for a new business: help people protect their credit

and avoid foreclosure, either by renegotiating their loans or buying and reselling their houses.

They launched their company, Alexander Property Investments, about 18 months ago. After about six months in business

they teamed up with AcQuity, a Minnesota company that has been in business for about 12 years. Over the last year, she

says the Madison office has purchased and sold about 10 Madison-area properties as short sales. Currently, it is working on

purchasing another 41.

When it looks like clients might be able to renegotiate the terms of the mortgage, Peterson refers them to "Hope Now," a

federal program designed to prevent foreclosures that includes a national hotline to mortgage counselors. But usually the

situation is beyond such intervention; Peterson believes her company has made only two of these referrals in the Madison

market.

The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) certifies agencies that provide housing counseling to

help people avoid foreclosure. It urges people who are in over their heads to work with one of these agencies.

AcQuity is not HUD-certified. But the Dane County Housing Authority and a nonprofit called Greenpath are.

Ellen Bernards, a certified consumer credit and housing counselor with Greenpath, says people facing foreclosure should be

careful about doing business with companies that promise to "save your home from foreclosure," especially if they charge a

fee up front.

"Unfortunately, when people are in crisis, they may look for the least painful way out," Bernards says. "And unfortunately

there are always people who are willing to prey on them."

Bernards believes many lenders are much more willing to renegotiate the terms of loans now than they were when the crisis

started a year ago because the lenders do not want to take the house and have to dump it at a loss.

Peterson agrees that consumers need to be careful and stresses that they should never have to pay someone just to contact the

lender on their behalf. She says AcQuity never charges a fee for its services.

"We have been in their shoes, and we really do understand how hard it is to come back from something like this," she says.

"We want people to know that it's okay to ask for help."

Alicia Emerson has moved to Georgia, where she hopes to make a fresh start. She feels grateful toward Peterson and

AcQuity for helping her escape from a house that almost ruined her.

But her troubles are not quite over. Although the short sale satisfied the first mortgage, she still owes about $30,000 on the

second mortgage. She's consulted with a bankruptcy lawyer to try to get that debt reduced, but she may have to declare

bankruptcy.

One thing's for sure: Emerson has lost all interest in becoming a homeowner again. "After all that's happened," she says,

"I've decided that renting is not so bad."