So I know I wrote a post early this week about how short sales where going to be hard this week with the holidays. I warned everyone that their short sale negotiators and customer service reps were mostly going to be taking personal days and on vacation. Well my friends, I didnt even take my [...]
Continue Reading →AHAHAHAHAHAHA….. I don’t know if I’m posting this because I feel its something people should know about their real estate or because I was rolling around on the ground laughing wondering if this guy was serious.
Thats right my friends! You heard the breaking news here first. The stove in [...]
Continue Reading →I heard an intersting fact the other day. A house gets put on the market for sale and a sign goes up. Within the next month, four houses in a one mile radius will be put on the market to be sold. Shocked? Well there is a reason or four to walk the neighborhoods of [...]
Continue Reading →Negotiating short sales during the holidays can be tough. I have an auction occuring on Friday on a Scottsdale short sale Im negotiating and normally it wouldnt be an issue. This week though, it makes me a little worried. This Scottsdale short sale would probably require an hour or two on the phone to get [...]
Continue Reading →I am working a Chandler short sale and to no surprise this file has hit a slight short sale bump like some tend to do. When negotiating short sales you expect little things to come along. These days it tends to be the bank’s short sale negotiators. Most banks give their short sale negotiators 30 [...]
Continue Reading →So here are some intersting facts. I received some information concerning the percentage of home that are sold as REOs in the Maricopa County in Arizona. REOs are not short sales, they are properties that have taken back by the lender after foreclosure.
40% of reported sales for Maricopa County, Arizona in September were Lender [...]
Continue Reading →So you all know by now that I am a short sale negotiator and Realtor. I negotiate Phoenix and Scottsdale short sales for hours every day. I obviously have my personal opinions and bias about short sales and their process. Since this site is intended for [...]
Continue Reading →Thank you valiant readers. I have decided to ask an important question. What would you guys prefer to read about?
Do you want more Arizona specific short sale information? ( Scottsdale Short Sales, Phoenix Short Sales) Do you want to know whats going on in Arizona these days? (Events, Openings, Shows…) Do you want more [...]
Continue Reading →Short sales are all over the Arizona as we all know. Short sales pop up in all neihborhoods in all price ranges. It is no surprise though that we tend to see more short sales in what I like to call the short sale prone areas. These areas in my mind are the Phoenix area [...]
Continue Reading →I have found and added feng shui coins to my journey of feng shui exploration. I recently bought these little wonders at the Feng Shui store in Phoenix. Feng shui coins are three golden colored coins tied together with a red ribbon. You can carry them around with you (I keep them in my wallet) [...]
Continue Reading →I wrote post once explaining that certain banks are trying different things to make short sales go a little smoother. The influence for that post was Aurora implementing an online short sale update website. Aurora has created this new website for quicker and frankly easier short sale updates. One goes on the website, enters in [...]
Continue Reading →So I am negotiating on a short sale with the bank First Horizon. I have only had a few short sales with them but their routine seems to be similar to the others. Anyways, after I sent in the short sale paperwork I made a few phone calls to their loss mitigation department in which [...]
Continue Reading →I realize when heading down the pre-foreclosure road you have many things to think about. There is a lot even when is comes down to short sales. In my mind, when considering any preforeclosure method, especially a short sale, you have to look at two main categories. The first main ramification when looking at short [...]
Continue Reading →I went to a Scottsdale Association of Realtors class yesterday. I will have to admit that I didn’t find the class all that interesting or useful until the very end. At the end, a man went up to the front and spoke about being a successful realtor for a number of years. This man was very joyful and [...]
Continue Reading →Elections were tonight. I hope everyone had a very good weekend. I promise to stop slacking on new posts. More short sale and real estate information in the days to come! Thanks for reading and have a great night.
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