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Strategy in pricing short sales

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Diamond

If you have a short sale how do you price it? Do you take the lowball effect of just getting an offer in to start negotiating it or maybe you are on the other exteme and price the house as high as possible thinking the bank will more likely accept the deal if you can get an offer over market value.

I think both those methods are wrong. When I price a short sale in Tempe or anywhere in the Phoenix area I figure out what the value of the property is then I price it slightly higher than that and build into my contract an automatic price reduction every two weeks until we get an offer.

I also use electronic lockboxes to track how many showings the house gets. Now if there are any problems with the price being approved I have plenty of evidence that shows what priceing I have tried, what type of showings the house received at each price and where it finally got an offer.

Would love to hear how you price your short sales. Here is my video on strategy used to price short sales.

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Gary Coles (Coaching)
Venture Realty International - Las Vegas, NV
Latin America Real Estate

Dean,  I just saw Paul's post about the contest and realized that you are a newbie to ActiveRain.  Congratulations on your initial blogging and welcome to ActiveRain.  If I can ever help, call or email me and I'll try to pass on what I have learned about AR.

Jan 25, 2010 12:13 PM
Nick Bastian
Realty Executives - Tempe, AZ
Real Estate Agent - Tempe

Yes, Dean... Congrats on your new found blogging. Please let me know if I can be of any help to you, too.

Mar 14, 2010 01:43 PM
John Puplava
ABC Home Inspections,L.L.C. - Prescott, AZ
ABC Home Inspections,L.L.C.

Hi Dean,

If I could help you in any way as HOME Inspector.Please call me.

John with ABC HOME INSPECTIONS

602-471-7384

Sep 02, 2010 05:35 PM