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What is Your Role as a Real Estate Agent or Investor when Explaining a Deficiency or Tax Liability to Your Client?

In today’s real estate environment, it seems like everything that is either bought or sold is a short sale. With a successful short sale comes a host of other sometimes unknown things; two of them being either a potential deficiency judgment or tax liability to the seller.  When it comes to determining how these two [...]

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Real Estate Agents: Embrace Short Sales, Or Get another Job

Let’s face it.  Homeowners today are faced with many different financial and personal issues; from interest rates being reset, to property tax hikes, to job losses.  These issues and many more, are forcing many homeowners to have to sell their homes. Which means that a vast majority of these properties will require a short sale [...]

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The 3 Biggest Misconceptions that Real Estate Agents have about Short Sale Listings

First of all, “yes” some short sales take long to sell and “yes” some short sale listings can be frustrating.  But let me tell you this; not all are created equal! With a little patience and a little creativity you can overcome some of the shortcomings of listing pre-foreclosure/short sale properties and make a lot [...]

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