12. March 2010 by admin.

Loan Modification vs Short Sale

Like many real estate property owners, short sale as become part of their vocabulary recently and yet unfortunate could give you a new lease on freedom once you complete the sale of your home. Prior to short sale, a homeowner should really try and ask the bank for a modification. Loan modifications can work if you still have a job and able to meet a new monthly obligation. The idea of being able to pay less interest, let’s say of a 5 year period allows you to maybe make some extra payments which in return would lower your principal balance, bringing it more in line to your home’s value. Now that’s a plan right, maybe stay in the home, eventually really own the home, after all it will be along while before you get the opportunity again because foreclosure doesn’t go away quick.

If Loan modification is out of the question your next best bet is to try and short sale your home.

In order to short sale your home you will need help from certain people, one being a realtor who understands the short sale process and two a short sale title company who can help you submit all the necessary documents to the bank.

The realtor, this person should really understand how to work a short sale as it will challenge them way more than a normal sale. They need to understand the process so that they can explain it to you and help prepare you for the sale. They need to be able to market with confidence and with a budget as buyers are more likely to go with a normal sale, as it will result in a much quicker close.

The short sale title company, the title company is “key” to a quick sale. As the title company they need to be able to handle the work load of a short sale, able to carry the upfront cost of processing and title reports if they offer a Free Short Sale Program or Free Short Sale Processing. A short sale title company needs to understand the documents and have the knowhow in creating the HUD for a short sale.

All in all a short sale may not be better than a Loan Modification but it is definitely better than a foreclosure. A short sale shows that, you took responsibility for the home you bought and at the end of the day if you ever went for a new mortgage someone with a little commonsense will realize that and maybe give you a new mortgage loan.

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3. March 2010 by admin.

Bank of America short sales are on the move….

With Bank of America short sales starting to move quicker into closing, we should be setting up for the best spring home buying season in years. Thanks to B of A’s implementing the equator system getting files submitted and worked on has become a much quicker process. The equator system allows the person who submitting the short sale whether it’s the client, realtor or title company submits via an online portal versus the old fashion fax method they were using.

This short sale process for Bank of America eliminates a lot of the phone calls or going back and forth emails that you would normally have to deal with making sure that your file was received and is being worked on.

What’s great about the B of A equator system is that it sends you email notifications letting you know what you are missing or may need to fix within your package, again eliminating huge amounts of waste time you used to spend doing follow up calls.

Although great, it does have some draw backs. For instance, if the your are requesting a huge reduction request like over $150,000 or more your file may get kicked back and you will have to submit via fax.

All in all with B of A adopting the equator system for short sales and other banks like GMAC who has also implemented some features from the system, we expect at our Title Company closing will be robust for the Spring home buying season

For more info on short sales try what is a short sale

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