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I saw this sign the other day driving around Long Beach and another similar one in South Central. You can always tell where the real estate market is by the Yellow Bandit Signs. What do you think this sign tells us about the real estate ? Read more »
Not ready to walk away from your mortgage, but looking for an alternative to the foreclosure process? As a Short Sale Specialist, I help families in the Long Beach area navigate their underwater mortgages and find suitable solutions to their loan issues. In some situations it’s too late to do anything, but wait for the [...] Read more »
Address: 700 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90802 Stories: 30 Units: 204 condos Types of Units: Wide selection, including 1 bedroom, 1 bathrooms; 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms; 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms Size Range: Approx. 880 sq. ft. to 1,260 sq. ft. Year Built: 1965 HOA Dues: Approx. $635/month Views: Breathtaking panoramic views spanning [...] Read more »
Perhaps you’re “upside down†on your house and can no longer afford your mortgage payments. Maybe you owe more than the property is worth and simply can’t refinance. Or, it may be that you still can’t handle your house payments even after modifying your loan or reducing your interest rate. Times are tight and you’re [...] Read more »
So you’re seeing the words “SHORT SALE†splashed all over real estate signs across town, on the news and in the headlines. Short sales are everywhere, but exactly WHAT ARE THEY and WHO BENEFITS from them? Let’s take a quick, painless, non-confusing look. You’ll be clued-in in no time, and if you have any questions, [...] Read more »
Probably one of the most common questions that I hear negotiating Short Sales in Los Angeles and Orange County, California is: “Do I have to be behind on my mortgage to do a short sale?” It is a totally logical and fair question. Unfortunately, there is no really clear cut answer. It all depends on [...] Read more »
A great real estate agent and friend of mine, Aaron Simons, sent me this chart about the consequences of a short sale versus a foreclosure. The chart was developed by the Distressed Property Institute. I think it does an excellent job of dispelling some myths about short sales and their actual consequences to a borrower. [...] Read more »
This is a great article from the Los Angeles Times about the BofA and Countrywide merger. The most interesting point is that the CEO of BofA, Ken Lewis, thinks that the California real estate market has about another 20% drop in the not too future…I would have to agree. This is one of the first [...] Read more »
Well, last Friday was the first time I actually “lost” control with a client. We have been negotiating a short sale with this one particular client for about 3 weeks making great progress. In fact, it looks like we will be able to get the approval on the short sale today. This is a personal [...] Read more »
I learned an interesting fact the other day from a Countywide Loss Mitigation Negotiator. These are the people that we work with when we are negotiating a short sale. This individual said that Countrywide has over 28,000 short sales in process, but only closes about 7% of these. Wow!! You know what that means? Only [...] Read more »
A great client and friend of mine, Tom Johnson, just closed on a SUPER KILLER deal on a duplex in California Heights, Long Beach, CA. It was a short sale that I was able to negotiate with Country Wide. [No Auto Start]BBqiCZ2Y1E4[/No Auto Start] Read more »
You are probably wondering why a bank would agree to loose ten to hundreds of thousands of dollars on a short sale? The simple reason is that a short sale is less costly to a bank than a foreclosure. Period. It is purely economic. The reasons that short sales are less expensive to a bank [...] Read more »
With the increase in foreclosures lately you may have heard the term “short sale†and wondered what it was. A short sale is when the lender will accept less than the full amount due on a mortgage when a property is sold. Usually, the lender will accept the short sale to avoid the time and [...] Read more »
In December, 2007, President Bush signed a new law giving tax breaks to homeowners who have mortgage debt forgiven called the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007. Now, a taxpayer does not have to pay federal income tax on debt forgiven for a loan secured by a qualified principal residence. This new tax break [...] Read more »
Diane Wender, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, interviewed me a few weeks ago for a story she was putting together for the Real Estate Section of the Los Angeles Times. She used a lot of the information I provide and did an excellent job explaining the short sale process and some of pitfalls of doing [...] Read more »
I just closed a short sale at Tacoma Avenue last month. This is a beautiful property and the buyer is lucky to get. This two story home was sweeping views of the valley was just built in 2006. Everything was brand new. My client, Brian, purchased the property in 2006 for $850,000 with 100% financing. [...] Read more »
From my experience doing short sales in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, the following list are the ten most common deal killers for doing a short sale (in no particular order): The seller lies about their assets and the bank finds out. The seller disappears or becomes non-responsive toward the end of the short sale [...] Read more »
