The real estate downturn of the mid-2000s is mostly over and the market is heating up, with prices rising in all over the U.S. In Wisconsin, the real estate market might be even healthier than in other locales, with new and existing home prices expected to rise 2.4 percent by early 2016. It might just be the perfect time to buy, but before you make any offers, you need to do a little planning to make sure you can pay out over the long run,…

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What is the Purpose of an Appraisal?

A mortgage has many specific pieces involved in it. Obviously there is the money supplied by the lender to pay the seller for their asking price. There…

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Do you have a client walking the fine line between foreclosure and a short sale? They may have several questions regarding their predicament that you might not know the best way to answer. The good news is that’s what we are here for! We have compiled a few key points that should be made to a wavering client regarding their decision to short sale or not.

First, let’s start with the definition of a short sale:

In simple terms, a…

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Hi Everyone,

What are the current lender credits available to Sellers?

Many short sales are lost, and fall out because banks (such as 1st mortgage) have such strict requirements that it becomes nearly impossible to satisfy these ridiculous requirements.

 

What really buggs me is that many of these requirements (RMA form) are Loan mod forms and make absolutely no impact on the short sale. Why do the banks require these ridiculous forms to be filled out? Who cares how many previous marriages the seller had? Why do these forms have to be filled out…

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You may have been reading about Bank of America short sale approval letters and some changes that have occurred. The Bank of America Short Sale Approval Letter has had various versions dealing with deficiency of the promissory note. This article will look at the BoA short sale letter recent changes.

History - Before June 2009

Until June 2009 the typical Bank of America short sale approval letter was not a release of mortgage and a release of…

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Brian Buffini Cinemeeting sponsored by First Mortgage/ Wells Fargo in NW Ohio community of Maumee OH ...…

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I just watched a video announcing some new HUD guidelines with respect to borrowers looking to obtain FHA loans after having completed a short sale. It makes a distinction between borrowers who were delinquent at the time of the short sale those that… Continue