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Good News Short Sale Approval in 45 days Thru Equator

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Realty Cityside

After six months of trial's thru BOA with three different buyer's, we finally obtained short sale approval thru equator portal in 45 days. The short sale package was initiated on 02/25/2010, immediately we were ask to upload 3rd Party Authorization which we did and the process went ok, except when we reached the commission part, of course BOA cut our commission to 5%, but after six months of trying, and not wanting my seller to go into foreclosure, Iand the Selling Agent have a meeting of the mind and we both accept the commission as approved. At any rate, we got our approval letter on 04/14/2010

What make this so great was we already had a BPO done by BOA prior to the file been initiated on Equator portal, and the BPO was still good at the time of initiation, so the negotiator was able to use the same BPO. If BOA had to request a new BPO, We may not be able to obtained approval in 45 days. That said, I think the system is getting better and I will continued (I almost dropped marketing Short Sale's properties) to embrace short sale now. Simple to help more homeowners

At any rate my seller is so delighted, The swwetest part is BOA not requiring a promissory note from my seller. We will be closing on 4/24/2010

 

Posted by

Jay Badru

Certified REO Specialist

Keller Williams Realty Cityside

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Doug Anderson
Tucker Associates Real Estate Services - Danville, CA
Bay Area Real Estate Views

Thanks for the review Jay.  I just signed up with Equator last week and look forward to working with the platform. ~ Doug

Apr 18, 2010 08:23 AM
Jay Badru
Keller Williams Realty Cityside - Atlanta Naval Air Station, GA
Certified REO/Short Sale/Foreclosure Specialialist

My pleasure Doug,

You gonna like the system. Is user friendly and great tool

Good Luck 

Apr 18, 2010 08:44 AM
Kurt Scharfe
Charles Rutenberg Realty - Lockport, IL

Well, Jay you are fortunate to receive %5 commission. I've charged only 4% and am still waiting from BOA. The contract was signed in January, but I think it has been longer because we are in the transtion period at equator. Finally, got a real negotiator last week assigned to the account.

I hope it doesn't take another 45 days for approval. Thanks for the post.

Apr 19, 2010 07:17 AM
Jay Badru
Keller Williams Realty Cityside - Atlanta Naval Air Station, GA
Certified REO/Short Sale/Foreclosure Specialialist

Thanks Kurt, I had to fight to get that 5%. the negotiator was willing to listen. Now that you've gotten a negotiator, next step is for them to order BPO if none is on file yet. After that you should expect to close withing the next 25 days.

Their goal is to expedite the process, but you have to call them twice a week  ( I did at 6pm et) to be sure progress is been made on their end.

Success

Apr 19, 2010 07:51 AM
Aida Pinto
Independent Real Estate Broker - Los Angeles, CA
Real Estate Broker (562) 884-6196

I don't like equator....how it working out for you now?

Jun 02, 2011 08:25 PM
Jay Badru
Keller Williams Realty Cityside - Atlanta Naval Air Station, GA
Certified REO/Short Sale/Foreclosure Specialialist

@ Aida, so far so good. When they first started it was not so good, but know I like it. Their video tutorial is also helpful. Good Luck

Jun 03, 2011 06:10 AM