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84Working Short Sales With A Second Mortgage
As if working with one lender isn't confusing enough, when you throw in two it can compound the time and frustration. It can also be a good thing. If you're a short sale investor, negotiating a second...
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80Short Sale Investing: Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI)
Short sale investors at all levels of experience tend to get thrown whenever they come across a deal with private mortgage insurance (PMI). A quick review: PMI is insurance that lenders require from most...
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79How To Do A Short Sale....For Real Estate Agents & Homeowners
Every week I am contacted by more than a few real estate agents who have properties they know aren't going to sell. Many of their listings are overleveraged and in pre-foreclosure. The vast majority of...
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72Working with Mortgage Brokers
To be successful in short sales you need to give yourself the opportunity to get some deals closed: In other words, you need to have a steady flow of leads and quality cases each month. The trouble is, how do...
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66Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
I remember selling life insurance just out of college and telling prospects that the interest rate on the product I wanted them to buy wasn't going anywhere. I remember saying, "As long as the financial...
6 comments84Foreclosure Updates On Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, & Indy Mac
During the past week we’ve heard a ton about Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Indy Mac. Another crisis? Don’t we already have the Iraq War, a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan, crazy fuel...
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71The 700 Billion Dollar Man
The past few days my head has been spinning. If you’re like me, then you’ve probably been reading everything you can get your hands on to understand how we went from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s...
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71How To Do a Short Sale...For Real Estate Investors
With foreclosures on everyone's mind these days, the interest in investing in foreclosures has skyrocketed. Everyone has a book, seminar, or website . . . where were all these "gurus" last year? Most...
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64Building a Real Estate Business
Nearly every business wants to scale up—more is better, right? But growing a business can take more than just a good market and a lot of hours at the office. Growing a business involves understanding how to...
2 comments69Short Sales and the FICO Score
It’s not hard to find chatter on the blogs concerning how a short sale or a foreclosure affects a FICO score. Frankly, even if it were the same, the differences between a deficiency judgment and a negotiated...
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