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What Are Short Sale Lender Differences

by Atlanta Short Sale Agent on February 16, 2011

Ever wonder why you keep getting different answers to your questions regarding short sales.  You read about low success rates, high success rates, how one bank absolutely “sucks” and then on another site they are being praised for being easy to work with.  If you dig deep enough you will even read that some “types” of loans are easy to do as a short sale, while others are “impossible.”

The truth is that each lender is different and each lender (most often they are actually servicers) answers to an investor.  On top of that there might be an insurance company involved. All of these companies have different guidelines.  For instance, a short sale negotiator from EMC might say that they approve short sales with sellers not currently defaulting (missing payments) on their loan.  Meanwhile his short sale investor (the company that holds the “paper”) says that they won’t accept any short sale offers unless the seller is in default.

This is just one of the many examples with this short sale industry.  As a buyer you need to be armed with the right information before making an offer.

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Suntrust Negotiations

by Atlanta Short Sale Agent on February 11, 2011

Every now and then you’re reminded why short sales get a bad rap.  Actually, every day you are reminded.  I wanted to share this story that we had experienced with a Suntrust negotiator while working on a client’s short sale.  We did get it closed successfully by the way!

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What Banks Do You Work With?

February 7, 2011

What Banks Do You Work With? In short, all of them. There are banks, like Suntrust that we prefer NOT to work with and others like Citi or EMC that we do enjoy working with.  However, in general, we won’t turn away helping a home owner due to their bank or servicer. Technorati Tags: banks, [...]

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We’re Getting Low Balled!

March 2, 2009

That’s kind of the point of a short sale.   The bank is going to take less than what they owe.  Most GOOD short sale specialists will negotiate with the bank so that the owner doesn’t owe anything else once the short sale is complete.  My question is, what difference does it make if you [...]

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