short sale listings: Listing Your Home for Short Sale, Part 4: The Hardship Letter - 08/21/09 02:06 AM
Listing your home for short sale is not as complicated as you think.  This is Part 4 in a series.  If you've missed the prior installments, you can link to them here: 
Listing Your Home for Short Sale, Part 1:  Do You Qualify?
Listing Your Home for Sale Sale, Part 2:  Choosing Your Listing Agent
Listing Your Home for Short Sale, Part 3:  Collecting Your Financial Information
In a hardship letter, the home owner must tell the mortgage holder (s) what circumstances have changed that have made it increasingly difficult, or impossible, to pay the mortgage.  Maybe your interest rate adjusted, and you have had a … (14 comments)

short sale listings: Listing Your Home for Short Sale, Part 3: Collecting Your Financial Information - 08/19/09 01:59 AM
Listing your home for short sale is not as complicated as you may think.  This is Part 3 of a Series on Listing Your Home for Short Sale.  If you missed the prior posts in the series, please click the links below to make sure you aren't missing important steps.
Listing Your Home for Short Sale, Part 1:  Do You Qualify?
Listing Your Home for Short Sale, Part 2:  Choosing Your Listing Agent
Once you've qualified that your mortgage holder is willing to do a short sale, and hired your listing agent, it is time to gather financial information.  This is … (8 comments)

short sale listings: Why You Should Interview a Short Sale Listing Agent BEFORE Showing Their Listing - 02/02/09 07:01 AM
Short sales aren't going away anytime soon.  They are a market reality.  If you want to sell homes, you'll eventually have to deal with them, if you haven't already.  Personally, I'd rather list a short sale than bring a buyer to one.  As a Buyer's Agent, I am impotent in doing anything to move the transaction toward bank approval. 
When I do encounter a short sale listing that a buyer is interested in,  I first make sure that my buyer can handle delays.  I have to ensure they have a place to stay indefinitely.  That being the case, I move on to interviewing … (66 comments)

 
Chris Ann Cleland, Associate Broker, Bristow, VA (Long and Foster Real Estate)

Chris Ann Cleland

Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

Gainesville, VA

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