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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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Your class on Foreclosures was extremely informative! I believe it is a “must take” for all Realtors, not only so that they can provide the best service to clients but also as a matter of risk management! The number of issues that can arise during a transaction are tripled when the property is in foreclosure. Please let me know when you will be giving this class again in the Orlando area so that I can have the rest of my agents attend.

Sarita Cabrera Lage, Portfolio Homes & Investments

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.

Donna Loader

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Are YOU using all of the tools you’ve invested in?

Recently while teaching a class I was discussing how I had just gotten a new listing which had been on the market for quite a while with a different agent. I told the class that when I Googled the address only ONE listing came up… Homes&Land… NO Zillow, NO Trulia, NO Craigslist. Just Homes & Land.

Well, that little lesson about how the old days of just sticking it in MLS and it will get sold are GONE turned into a polite email from the publisher of Homes & Land. It seems that many of her advertisers were in the class and called her up and said “you told us that our houses automatically go to all of those sites! What’s the …

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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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