by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 20, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
How Does a Short Sale Affect a Credit Score? The #1 question my students are asked by distressed homeowners is: How does a short sale affect my credit score? Let’s define what a credit score is first before we embark on how a short sale affects your score. Your...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 20, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Getting lenders to say “Yes!” to your short sales require that you know how a lender approves a short sale offer. Often, an agent or an investor will ask me why their short sale offer is not being approved by the bank. They typically go on to explain to me...
by Brandon Reynolds | Sep 20, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Short sale flips (the process of shorting a property then reselling it for a cash profit in a simultaneous closing) have been taking heat lately from title companies and real estate brokers. Realtor blogs are filled with drivel about how these transactions are illegal...
by Brandon Reynolds | Aug 27, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
Three years ago you would not have been able to find a single article in any newspaper or online publication about short sales. Today, there is an average of 5-10 new pieces–each and every day. Over the course of a year, that translates to nearly 3,000 different...
by Brandon Reynolds | Aug 27, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
The biggest mistake you can make in this time of this “late recession” (in some areas already “post-recession”) is to assume that all of the sellers out there are over-leveraged and that the ONLY way to make money is to work short sales. That...
by Brandon Reynolds | Aug 27, 2010 | Authors
Marko Rubel has completed hundreds of successful transactions in his over a decade long career. He has created a multi-million dollar empire out of nothing, and he has made it his mission in life to help others achieve the same freedom.He is an active investor in...
by Brandon Reynolds | Aug 27, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
As we covered in How to Get Paid to Buy a Great Deal (Part 1), there are a lot of opportunities in this current economy in addition to working with foreclosure deals. In the previous article, we covered the type of sellers that will pay you to buy and the...
by Brandon Reynolds | Aug 27, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
The real estate short sale is a phenomenon that has taken the real estate industry by storm in recent years. Not to be confused with selling a publicly traded stock “short,” a real estate short sale involves a mortgage company accepting less than their...
by Brandon Reynolds | Aug 27, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
I’ll cut right to the chase, the biggest mistake short sale investors make is the way they determine the amount of the short sale offer they make to the lender. There’s the wholesale offer, as I call it, where the investor uses the ol’ 65% of as-is...
by Brandon Reynolds | Aug 27, 2010 | Real Estate Investment How-to Articles
For the last several years, I have been saying that the foreclosure epidemic would be a good thing for real estate investors. Real estate investors have such a great opportunity when foreclosure rates go up. What opportunity exists? Real estate investors can buy...
