Hi Everyone, Here are the Q&As from today’s Foreclosure class: There was an article in this past weekend’s Seattle Times, another good one by Ken Harney, about loan modifications and credit scores. Here’s another article by Ken about how a person with a higher credit score will see their score fall by more points with […]
To the Students from the April 14, 2010 Short Sale Class at PNW Realty Kent
Hi Everyone, Here’s the follow up Q&As from our Short Sale class: Here’s a link to the Washington State website with a list of all the housing counseling agencies. Here’s Ken Harney’s article on credit scores. And here’s Ardell’s blog post as a follow up. She has the nice visual graph for you. There was […]
To the Students from the April 16, 2010 REO Class at PNW Realty West Seattle
Hi Everyone, Here’s the follow up from Friday’s REO class: There was a request for a simple definition of a hedge fund. Here you go. There was some interest in taking courses that appraisers take in order to better understand how to prepare BPOs. North Seattle CC has courses like this. It looks like BCC […]
To the Students from the April 15, 2010 Transition Class in Kent
Hi Everyone, Here’s the follow up from last week’s transition course in Kent. The Red Flags Rules go into enforcement June 1, 2010. Here’s a link to the FTC website. Although the link that opens their PDF doesn’t seem to be working at the moment, inside the booklet distributed by FTC, a real estate agent is […]
To the Students from the April 9, 2010 REO class at SKCAR Bellevue
Hi Everyone, Here’s the follow up from the REO class on Friday: Here’s a link to a story about problems people are having getting flood insurance right now. Here’s a link with more information about the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternative program regarding giving lenders monetary incentives to process short sales when a homeowner does not […]
To the Students from the April 1, 2010 Short Sale Class at JLScott Puyallup
Hi Everyone, Here’s the follow up from the Short Sale class last Thursday. Here’s the link to the Making Home Affordable government website for a homeowner to see whether or not they qualify for the Obama Administration’s foreclosure mitigation options. Here’s Ken Harney’s article on credit scores. And here’s Ardell’s blog post as a follow […]
To the Students from the April 2, 2010 Foreclosure Class at PNW Realty W Seattle
Hi Everyone, First things first: Yes the Muse/Silversun Pickups concert was amazing! Here’s the follow up from today’s Foreclosure class. Here’s more information on the new WA State Foreclosure laws. Here’s the link to the Making Home Affordable government website for a homeowner to see whether or not they qualify for the Obama Administration’s foreclosure mitigation […]
To the Students from the Advanced Short Sale Class at Prudential W Seattle on March 26, 2010
Hi Everyone, Here’s the follow up from today’s class. We spent several minutes reviewing the changes to the Home Affordable Modification Program that were announced by the Treasury this morning. Here’s the HAMP Fact sheet. Here’s a nice summary post from my favorite econ and finance blogger, CalculatedRisk. Here’s a link to the Making Home […]
To the Students from the March 25, 2010 Foreclosure Class at SKCAR Bellevue
Hi Everyone, Here’s the follow up from today’s Foreclosure class. I promised to send some fun links on my new consumer protection hero Elizabeth Warren. Here are some of her Daily Show clips. Here is the very cool interactive map from the New York Times. Yeah, every city thinks they’re special and this couldn’t possibly have happened in “our” […]
To the Students from the March 24, 2010 REO Class at KW Bothell
By Jillayne on March 25, 2010 in Real Estate Continuing Education Classes, REOs, REOs: Real Estate Owned
Hi Everyone, Here’s the follow up from the REO class today. Here’s a link to the Chase website. When Chase representatives were in town recently, they mentioned that they prefer to use an asset management company to market their REOs. At the bottom of this website is more info on how to work with their […]