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Top Five Tips for Buying a Foreclosed Home

By Stacey L. Bradford,
Associate Editor, SmartMoney.com

RIGHT NOW, IT’S anyone’s guess when the housing downturn will finally hit bottom. But if you’re looking to buy a home now - and plan to stay in it for a while - there are plenty of bargains to be had on a foreclosed property.

Banks are often willing to sell foreclosed homes for up to 20% below market value just to get these troubled properties off their books, says Rick Sharga, vice president of marketing for RealtyTrac, a web site that lists foreclosed properties. With foreclosures at an all-time high in the past year, there’s no shortage of these opportunities to pursue. However, prospective buyers should know that closing on that super-cheap distressed home is often a lot more …

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I have been in lending for many years, yet as a new real estate investor there are so many questions. Your classes on Finding the Money, and the Junker Junkets were informative and useful. Your communication skills made the information easily absorbed and ready to be put to use. I especially appreciate your presentation methods. Your personal experience as an investor, in the mortgage field, and real estate sales really put value on your information because you’ve done it yourself. Keep teaching, you can help a lot of investors.

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I really enjoy your email every week. I took your seminar at the board here for short sales & I closed 2 of my listings, getting both sides, I have an offer in another one, it’s taking longer… I had also 1 short sale approved by the bank at 6% comm. but it did not close because the buyer was denied financing, I had also both sides…
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Is 99% Satisfaction Good Enough? (archive: July 2008)

(archive: July 2008)

Today I had a listing appointment with a client that was referred to me because of my skills in “Alternative Financing” and moving properties that nobody else has been able to sell.

Anyway, as I printed the Mapquest to his house, there was an ad at the top of the printout that was for Genuine Hewlett-Packard Ink for your printer. It said: “1 out of every 4 refilled inkjet cartridges will fail. Trust HP inks for 99% quality” or something along those lines. Their point was the they only have a 1% failure rate as compared to 25% failure rate among refills.

It reminded me of a handout that I shared with my Women’s Group a while back, and I …

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What happens if you list a short sale too low?

Anyone that’s been in the field at all over the last year has seen it: a home that is in a $120,000 neighborhood is all of a sudden listed as a short sale for $75,000. I just saw that very situation first hand in a neighborhood that I own a rental property, in fact it’s the first home I ever bought and Tim & I lived there for 3 years before turning it into a rental, so over the years I’ve tracked the values in there VERY closely, it’s kind of my temperature gauge for the real estate market.

After I got over my initial anger over how someone could POSSIBLY list a property that much below market value in MY neighborhood, I …

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