seller: A Year Late and $60,000 Short... Or How To Try To Close A Short Sale in Only 548 Days!
- 07/09/09 04:15 PM
Hi All, Friday should have been a great day. It really should have been. Not just for me but for my client and also for another agent and their client's as well. But it wasn't and here's why. I took a listing for a condo in Ontario, CA in February 2008. It was, is, and remains a Short Sale. And it is getting "shorter" by the minute. A brief recap for those who don't remember my speaking about this transaction before. (And really, why would you since I started babbling about it when Barack Obama was still just a Senator from … (13 comments)
seller: The Downside To Having Good SEO...
- 08/27/08 06:04 PM
Hi All, One of the first acronyms I learned within days, practically within hours of entering the Blogging arena was SEO. Search Engine Optimization was said (or rather typed) with a respect bordering upon reverence. Having your presence in the Internet being noticed and noted by Google, Yahoo et al was considered the be-all and end-all of everything. Well, today I learned why that may not be such a good thing... I got a phone call from a very nice lady in another state who had found me on the Internet when she did a search looking for help with a … (13 comments)
seller: And Then Glinda Asked... "Are You A "Listing" Agent Or A Selling Agent?"
- 08/25/08 05:28 PM
Hi All, Don'cha hate this, you get a call from a client wanting to see a home (well I don't hate that part :-). Naturally, the home they most want to see is the one that is listed as "appointment only, no key safe", so I dutifully called the listing agent at all 4 given numbers (by the way, as of now, 10:08 PM, the following day, I have yet to receive a call back) and left messages asking to view the home. The property is a Short Sale and has been on the market for 230 days... so far. Well, … (12 comments)
seller: Seller's Its Time To Cash Your Reality Check... And Your Agent Needs To Write It
- 08/10/08 11:58 AM
Hi All, This is a rant.... this is only a rant... please do not adjust your viewer but take this in the spirit intended... Picture this... We are out for a day of property viewing and shockingly most of what we are looking at is in some form of distress. So what this means to me is that these properties, and in the case of Short Sales, these owner's have a level of urgency attached to the outcome of these transactions somewhere in the magnitude 20 range on the Richter Scale. But do they? Are they behaving like they do? Nope, not one bit … (11 comments)
seller: Are Your Client's Suffering From "Helpful Friend Syndrome"?
- 08/01/08 05:26 PM
Hi All, Today I want to call your attention to a plague sweeping our Nation. A woefully underdiagnosed ailment striking down innocent folks somewhere every minute of every day, "Helpful Friend Syndrome". Helpful Friend Syndrome (or HFS) can strike anyone, anywhere at anytime and it is not limited to folks looking to enter the Real Estate market, it can strike folks considering a job change, involved in a romantic relationship or contemplating any major life decision. HFS seems harmless enough, but let me assure you that this can be a killer. One of the first symptoms of HFS is auditory, you … (9 comments)
seller: What I Did On Xmas Vacation... My First CLOSED Transaction!
- 01/25/08 02:41 PM
Hi All, It has been an interesting and enlightening few months. I just successfully closed my first transaction, which was also a short sale, which was also the product of my blog here on Active Rain. I am pleased and proud to report that the buyer's, the lender, and most of all my client's are all very, very happy. Amazingly, things went about as smoothly as they could possibly go. We were flooded with offers from day one (really!) and wound up closing above list price and $46,000 over the banks appraised value. This just proves the value of having an agent who is … (44 comments)
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