Short Sale help - Posted by Chris

Posted by Kristine-C on August 06, 2008 at 11:07:56:

Do you mean 70% OF value? as in 30% percent BELOW value? Or are
you really offering these houses at 70% discount? As you are seeing,
value means very little if there there aren’t any eligible buyers and/or
the loan products are limited.

Are you planning on closing on the short sales yourself, or somehow
assigning the deal to the end buyers? Short sales can be tricky unless
you can close on it yourself…the banks are watching these deals
pretty carefully where I am. You can’t change anything about the
contract. No assigns, etc.

If you can close on them yourself, you can offer your buyers seller
financing (by wrapping) or lease/options. You could also find a
mortgage broker to work who may already have marketing in place for
buyers.

In your area can you put signs and/or banners with your USP on the
property? That works in my area. Kristine

Short Sale help - Posted by Chris

Posted by Chris on August 06, 2008 at 08:39:59:

Just looking for a little advice and direction. We currently have releases on 16
homes in our area. We are talking to the banks and doing short sales on 12 of
them. Seems we are having a little trouble finding buyers even though we are at
70 percent below value. Some are ready to rent or move in others are
nightmares and we actually have a deal on 2 of them for less than 1k. Any ideas
would be appreciated. We advertise in paper and online. Laslt but not least it
seems it is taking banks 60 to 90 days now to short sale…?