Welcome to this week’s edition of the Pre-foreclosure Daily Grind! In this edition we discuss a couple of changes in the industry and how best to prepare for them. We’ll cover a nice new change within Bank of America that many of you will love to hear, and will make our short sales proceed much more smoothly. We’ll also discuss an initial hurdle with M&T Bank and how to overcome it.

This morning we, and all other real estate professionals out there, were greeted with a nice email discussing a very welcome change to how Bank of America processes short sales in Equator. It was titled “Now You Can Substitute a New Buyer for One Who Walked Without Restart.” As can be extrapolated from that title, we now no longer have to start from scratch whenever we lose a buyer! This surely comes as great news for all of us who have, and frequently do, find ourselves in this exact predicament. With this new change, we will no longer have to wait and go through all the same tasks again, and upload all the same documents again.

The way that this works is pretty simple. Most importantly, do not notify the negotiator you have lost your buyer until you have a new one in place! The reason for this is because the addition of the new buyer to the process works more like a substitution. In other words, when one buyer walks, it will then be necessary to immediately swap the new one in. Therefore, once you have your new buyer’s contract in your hands, the next thing to do is notify your negotiator via email through Equator. They’ll respond in 2 days asking if a backup offer is in place. Then they will ask you to complete 4 tasks which involve providing listing date, a marketing description, and then a marketing plan. They will also ask you to change over the status of the file to “Marketing.” Finally, the last task will be to upload the new offer. And then you’ll be back in business!

In other news, we had a bit of an encounter with M&T Bank this week. Upon calling their customer service department, we were told that this particular department will not speak to a 3rd party unless the homeowner is there present with you, or on the same call via a conference call. So when I asked about where to send written authorization, they said they wouldn’t accept it…period. Way to ensure the short sale DOESN’T get done! I called back a few more times and asked to speak to the short sale department instead. At which time they transferred me to their Homeowner’s Assistance Department, which handles their short sales. Thus, when you have a mortgage with M&T, just seek to bypass their customer service department, and ask to speak to the Homeowner’s Assistance Department instead!

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On this week’s PFDG “Tip of the Week” we uncover the latest government “Noose” that WILL put the majority of short sale and loan modification companies out of business! Listen in as we also cover, how the M.A.R.S. (mortgage assistance relief services) change may cause you possible legal ramifications if your disclosures are not “good enough”, how this ruling will greatly affect the economy, who this new change will truly benefit (and it’s not the consumer),  how the change WILL affect every single Real Estate Agent and Real Estate Investor that negotiates debt. An update on the launch of our new and improved CRM (or Small Business Workspace) FinerSolution.com, and much more.

On this week’s Preforeclosure Daily Grind “Tip of the Week” we uncover the facts behind whether or not processing short sales for Real Estate Investors is a waste of time or a profit center you need to add to your business! Listen in as we also cover, what your starting short sale offer, as an investor, should be and what it should not be, what most lenders require in their short sale packages that maybe a surprise to real estate investors, what to add into your short sale package that could ensure a BPO Agent does not screw you out of your hard earned money and more.

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On this week’s Preforeclosure Daily Grind “Tip of the Week” we tackle what to do when you are negotiating a short sale and you get stuck with an over demanding loss mitigator. We cover how to figure out if the demanding requests for more short sale documents are coming from the actual lender (Chase), the lenders investor, the Mortgage Insurance Company or just an inexperienced negotiator; The different levels a short sale travels in order to get an acceptance. Plus the latest way Bank of America and their Equator system are jamming up your short sales when you are at the closing stages, and more.

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On this week’s Preforeclosure Daily Grind “Tip of the Week” we tackle the latest way that Litton Loan Servicing is handling their loan modifications. We cover how they deal with sellers, agents and third party loss mitigation companies when they are servicing the 1st mortgage. We also go over what they are doing when they are servicing a 2nd loan and what debt collection company they are working with. Chase’s new practice regarding sellers that miss one payment and what foreclosure “status” they put them in and what you need to do to get them out, and more.

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On this week’s Preforeclosure Daily Grind “Tip of the Week” we dive into the facts behind doing a short sale on an FHA insured loan. We cover the positives, negatives and give you “hidden” tips and tricks when discounting these properties. Listen in as we also cover the how to “escalate” an FHA insured file so you can speak directly to HUD’s national office, one of the only remaining lenders that still require our sellers to go through HUD counseling. We also touch on the maximum amount of money that FHA will give attorneys and title companies, whether or not an FHA insured property needs to be listed in order to qualify for a short sale, whether or not the homeowner needs to be in default to start an FHA short sale. The “truth” behind whether or not a “VACANT” FHA insured property can be filed for a short sale. We also cover if Bank of America negotiates FHA insured properties on their Equator System and more.

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On this week’s Preforeclosure Daily Grind “Tip of the Week” we dive into what many of today’s buyers’ lenders are requiring on your short sale acceptance letters, in order to finance a short sale purchase transaction. Listen in to see what McCue Mortgage is requiring from Bank of America and CitiMortgage. We also cover what line to put a 2nd lien holders payment on a HUD-1 settlement statement to satisfy a 1st mortgage, why you can’t change a Bank of America short sale approval letter, why CitiMortgage no longer accepts extra payments of the HUD-1 settlement statement and more.

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On this week’s Preforeclosure Daily Grind “Tip of the Week” we dive into the latest and greatest challenge when dealing with a Servicer (Lender) who goes against their Investor (the entity who owns the money) and their written guidelines and how to overcome it. We also cover the latest updates to our Real Estate Management Tool that will save you a lot of money, a deal in which we’ve had to go over a lenders head and straight to the investor due to another bait-n-switch, why and how to get two negotiators to work together when they’re both within the same lender and on the same property, a recent “challenging” SunTrust deal that we finally got closed after a year and much more.

On this week’s Preforeclosure “Tip of the Week” we cover the latest challenge that one of today’s big name Transactional Funding Companies is creating for short sale investors and which foreclosing lender will no longer allow you to use them.  As many of you may not know Lenders are now watching your every move so if you are not on top of your game you will get crushed! Listen in as we go over this latest “hot” topic, the latest Bull$hit that Bank of America pulled in reference to seller concessions, the latest tip on how to use the Equator.com system and why we love them, Chris “the drummer” Bowes’s latest gig in Nashville, TN and much more.  Visit www.PreforeclosureDailyGrind.com for more real estate videos from Bob Lachance and Chris Bowes of North Shore Enterprises.

On this week’s Preforeclosure Daily Grind “Tip of the Week” we dive into what is going on with SunTrust Mortgage and how long they are actually taking to close short sales these days. We go over a recent deal we have with them and some tips and tricks on how to get a short sale deal closed when you have two mortgages with the same lender. Listen in as we cover this and how often SunTrust Mortgage will order a new BPO, what Fannie Mae will allow 2nd mortgage holders when they are in first position, whether or not SunTrust will give a “Settlement in Full” or a “Release of Lien” only on their short sale approval letters and more. Visit www.PreforeclosureDailyGrind.com for more real estate videos from North Shore Enterprises.