Broker Bryant's Real Estate Ramblings

Tutas Towne Realty and Bryant Tutas  just had another successful Longwood Florida Short Sale closing with Nationstar And DTA Solutions  The property:  Primary Residence. 2 bedroom 1 bath single family home located in Longwood Florida. This home has 1,378 sq ft of living area and was built in 197...

Tutas Towne Realty and Bryant Tutas  just had another successful Poinciana Florida Short Sale closing with Chase Mortgage.   The property: Investment Property. 4 bedroom 2 bath single family home located in Kissimmee/Poinciana Florida. This home has 2,849 sq ft of living area and was built in 20...

Tutas Towne Realty and Bryant Tutas  just had another successful Ruskin Florida Short Sale closing with Bank of America. This was a FHA Pre Foreclosure Sale.  The property:  Primary Residence. 3 bedroom 2 bath single family home located in Ruskin Florida. This home has 1,624 sq ft of living area...

  Good morning Superstars,   Here are some of this week's top discussions.           FANNIE MAE Valuation issue Members - I need you help quickly!! I have been in contact the past few months with NAR and Treasury Dept. regarding this issue. Please see… Started by Ken Ryan 12 yesterday Reply by W...

This has been much anticipated and will help many sellers avoid taxes on the forgiven debt related to a Short Sale. The Mortgage Debt Relief Act has been extended through January 2014. This is great news for folks needing to do a Short Sale. See if you qualify: http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/The-...

.........if you don't want to do Short Sales then please quit wasting everybody's time pretending you do. On November 1st you implemented the new "streamlined short sale" guidelines. Read the new servicer guidelines here. Excerpts: Determining the Market Value of the Property Fannie Mae requires...

I know most of us are members of an MLS (Multiple Listing Service). The MLS I belong to is run by MLXchange and is called My Florida Regional MLS (MFRMLS).The Rules and Regulations are 38 pages long. I've read them all. Being a Broker it's my job to know these things. And it's your job too. Have...

Good question. It's quite common for lenders to reach out to their borrowers to see if they qualify for a loan mod. Usually the Lenders have to offer foreclosure prevention options to the borrowers before they can pursue the Short Sale. It really has nothing to do with whether or not the Short Sa...

Hi folks. Have you ever looked at someone else's success and thought how "lucky" they are? Or, made a comment about a Blogger on ActiveRain, about how their posts are always featured and it must be because "they know the right people" or they are featured because they are "popular"? Did you know...

  Good morning Superstars.   Here are this week's Superstar discussions.   DiscussionsRepliesLatest Activity BANK OF AMERICA SHORT SALE SUCCESS STORIES I went online to see if I could find a Bank of America, FHA, short sale success story, but I could not find any thing. Everything I read is… Sta...