Portland Real Estate Blog

My disclaimer: I'm not an attorney or a CPA. I just do a lot of short sales and therefore have formed an opinion. And you know what they say about opinions! Short Sales are "AS IS". If you're an agent listing short sales, you really need to let the buyer's agent know that the bank won't do any re...

My disclaimer: I'm not an attorney or a CPA. I just do a lot of short sales and therefore have formed an opinion. And you know what they say about opinions! Ok. I've had it with Bankruptcy attorneys who advise their clients to "just file bankruptcy now and then let the home go to foreclosure"! I ...

My disclaimer: I'm not an attorney or a CPA. I just do a lot of short sales and therefore have formed an opinion. And you know what they say about opinions! Some states are starting to put laws into effect to help protect homeowners facing foreclsoure. One such state is Oregon (my home state). On...

We get calls on our short sale listings all the time from buyer's agents who are asking the right questions. How many loans are there? Who are the banks? Has a BPO (a broker's price opinion) been done yet ? That's great! They are doing what they should be doing. They are asking the questions to f...