I did not choose real estate as a career. Oops, I can hear my business partners at Short Sale Daily News and team at Southeastern Group and Southeastern Home Team cringing at my admission. But, the truth of it is, I really did not want to pursue real estate when I was deciding “what to be when
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12/08/2010
Are you generating enough leads to support your business? If you are not closing the number of transactions you need to stay afloat, then you are most certainly NOT. It may be time to take a step (or maybe a few leaps and a jump) backwards in order to EVER move forward as a business. If I am s
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12/07/2010
The Governor of the Federal Reserve, Dan Tarullo, spoke before the Senate Banking Committee last week and urged Congress to set up national foreclosure standards. Tarullo detailed how examinations from regulators have uncovered numerous deficiencies in both the servicing and foreclosure processe
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12/06/2010
The Federal Reserve has issued a proposal to amend a 42-year-old provision of the federal Truth in Lending Act. The change would make it far more difficult for homeowners to stop foreclosures and get out of predatory home loans with extremely unfavorable terms. In response, numerous foreclosure
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12/06/2010
Have you ever had muscle fatigue? You know, you are holding something really heavy and your muscles start to shake and ache and finally just give in. Have you ever pushed with all you’re might against something extremely heavy that just won’t budge and your legs buckle or your feet slip? I hav
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12/01/2010
Question: How many days can you go without paying your mortgage before you lose your home? Answer: 492 That’s according to the latest data released by Lender Processing Services for October 2010. And that number is just the average. In some states, particularly those with judicial foreclosures,
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11/30/2010
All too often we run into a new agent or investor and the first thing they do, though we have other methods we would recommend for marketing yourself, is hand us their card. Fantastic, right?! Now we've got your info and we'll go right to the office and check out your information. What a great
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11/29/2010
The big banks that have been in the news so much because of the robo-signing of foreclosure paperwork may need a forest of paper to get through the massive re-filing process. Bank of America estimates it will re-submit 102,000 affidavits in which the foreclosure was pending. Wells Fargo is in the
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11/29/2010
Alas, the Butterball help line is not available to assist you through the short sale process. Yes, they did open their lines earlier this week, and yes, they probably hire reps based on the same criteria as loss mitigation departments. But, unless you can break-down your short sale into cookin
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11/24/2010
This is hillarious - a team member showed this to me so I have to re-blog it as well! I can't believe: 1) the homeowners 2) the realtors Just goes to show - it takes all kinds to make the world go 'round!Marketing is an important aspect of every home for sale. Ellen Degeneres finds a few marketi
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11/24/2010
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