Hi Everyone, Here’s the follow up from today’s class. Here’s a great resource guide that was just published: It’s 61 pages….BUT full of good stuff. WA State Foreclosure Resource and Prevention Guide. Here’s a blog post I wrote providing a link to many bank-owned REO lists. We talked about the brand new WA State Foreclosure Fairness […]
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To the Students from the April 19, 2011 Class on Becoming an REO Broker at ORT Everett
Hi Everyone, Thanks for your kind thoughts in the end-of-course evals! Wow you made my day. Now for the follow up: Here’s a link to the graph galleries from Calculated Risk. Here’s the 61 page WA State Foreclosure Resource and Prevention Guide. We talked about the brand new WA State Foreclosure Fairness Act….and here’s a […]
To the Students from the April 14, 2011 “Buying REOs” Class at Sterling Savings Seattle
Hi Everyone, Here are the links to some of the things we talked about in class today. Here’s the 61 page WA State Foreclosure Resource and Prevention Guide. Here’s a blog post I wrote providing a link to many bank-owned REO lists. We talked about the brand new WA State Foreclosure Fairness Act….and here’s a […]
To the Students from the April 13th “Buying REOs” class at PNW Realty Fed Way
Hi Everyone, Here are the links to some of the things we talked about in class today. Here’s the 61 page WA State Foreclosure Resource and Prevention Guide. We talked about the brand new WA State Foreclosure Fairness Act….and here’s a great blog post from Jess and Julie Lyda on this topic. There was a […]
To the Students from the April 12, 2011 HAFA Short Sale Class
Hi Everyone, Here are the links to some of the things we talked about in class today. Here’s the 61 page WA State Foreclosure Resource and Prevention Guide. We talked about the brand new WA State Foreclosure Fairness Act….and here’s a great blog post from Jess and Julie Lyda on this topic. There was a […]
To the Students from the April 8, 2011 Short Sale Fraud Class
Hi Everyone, Here are the links we talked about in class. Here’s the WA State Foreclosure Fairness Act. Here’s a great website showing a list of HUD-approved Housing Counseling Agencies. and here’s the new WA State Foreclosure Resource Guide….This is a VERY GOOD PDF for distressed borrowers. Here’s the IRS website on the Mortgage Forgiveness […]
WA State Foreclosure Resource Guide
Washington State has published a Foreclosure Resource and Prevention Guide from the Attorney General’s office. It’s 61 pages long which makes it not economical to print and hand out to homeowners, however it has some great prevention warnings such as “Beware of companies that charge fees to help you prevent foreclosure. Several of these companies’ […]
To the Students from the April 1, 2011 “Buying REOs” Class
Hi Everyone, Here are some of the links we talked about today. Here’s a blog post I wrote providing a link to many bank-owned REO lists. Here is the link from HUD showing title insurance is “buyer’s choice” under RESPA. I mentioned the concept of loan “push backs” where a servicer asks a bank to […]
To the Students from the March 31, 2011 Short Sale Fraud Class
Hi Everyone, Here are the links we discussed in class: Here’s more info on the Foreclosure Fairness Act. Here’s more on the HAFA program. Here’s the story from the NY Times “In Prison for Taking a Liar Loan.” IRS Rule on debt forgiveness tax provisions is called the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act. Special thanks […]
To the Students from the March 25, 2011 Foreclosure Field Trip at SKCAR Bellevue
Hi Everyone, Here are links to some of the items we discussed in class today. Here’s a link to the Northwest Trustee Service website and a link to our special guest speaker, Vestus. Thanks again to Sherri Hunsinger and Christopher Hall for going through the homes up for bid! To see how many homes are scheduled […]