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Buying a Bank Property? Hurry Up & WAAAAIIIIITTTTT.
  
I just got a bank owned / REO property under contract. Was previously $800k, and it was now listed for $400k.
We had to bid on 6 properties before finally "winning" one (ask how we "won" without having the highest offer too!). Wow was that a pain. And people say it is a "buyers market" with tons of inventory? If a home is priced right, it will sell FAST. The key is to get daily MLS email alerts! (or ask for hourly)
So, I haven't figured out to what degree the hassle was with the listing agent or with the bank itself.
First we have the overloaded listing agent problem. 
The banks don't like changing who their "partner" Realtors are. Once they like one, they dump on them dozens and sometimes hundreds of listings. So the agent is overwhelmed. The listings get thrown onto the MLS with the 1 free "driveby photo" that the MLS provides (thank God for FranklyMLS.com where buyer agents share 30+ photos of these photoless properties).
And if you have 20-40 properties, you get swamped. Your voicemail fills up and emails get ignored. Recently I put in a lowball for a bank property (see why ... more

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