</h1> <article> <h1>Comment on Orlando Short Sales by Brady Pevehouse</h1> <p>Brady Pevehouse — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:21:57 +0000</p> <p>This must be a loaded question?</p> <p>Short sales by definition are anything but short in duration!<br /> Short sales are when a lender agrees to accept less than is owed on a mortgage or lien. In essence they are a settlement between the lender and the seller of a property for less than what is owed on the actual value of the home.<br /> To achieve a short sale the buyer must be willing to wait for the negotiation process to work. On average this could mean waiting 60 to 90 days for the sellers lender to accept a legitimate offer.</p> <p>If a bank accepts a short sale, this typically means the seller is taken out of foreclosure status and the ownership is transferred to the buyer.</p> <p>Word to the wise! not all advertised prices on short sales are the price that the property will sell at. Many times the advertised price is not approved by the lender and are for marketing purposes only. The price should be at or near market value, but experience has taught me that this is not always the case. Everyone should speak to an experienced agent to set proper expectations in regards to offer price, and time frames.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Comment on Fannie Mae launches new site to help struggling homeowners by Brady Pevehouse</h1> <p>Brady Pevehouse — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:15:51 +0000</p> <p>Aj,<br /> I appreciate your visiting my site, and welcome the input.<br /> Unfortunately I am an active real estate agent before I am a blogger. Banks take up so much time these days that non-client direct time is usually spent shuffling papers and negotiating with the bank. I handle negotiations with banks for my clients, as well as other agents and their clients. I naturally spend a couple of hours on the phone just dealing with clients and agents, and that doesn’t include time on the phone with lenders. I can easily conclude that about 4 to 5 hours a day is spent handling short sales in one way or another. Add to that drive time to my properties or time spent working with buyers, naturally it means my blog may suffer a little in regards to updates.</p> <p>I do my best to report information that is relevant and timely to the markets and clients that I serve. I realize I receive more phone calls with questions and comments than I do on the site, and for me that is fine. After an 30 minute conversation with client it is tough to get back to my computer and detail specifics despite it being completely relevant to the blog topic. I know I should likely add more content, but as the business goes, I focus on specific client needs at times at the suffering of my personal marketing effort.<br /> Thanks for the visit, you are welcome back at any time and subject related comments are always welcome!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Comment on Fannie Mae launches new site to help struggling homeowners by AJ</h1> <p>AJ — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:52:21 +0000</p> <p>I’m generally not one to post my opinion on people’s sites, but for this write up I simply had to do it. I have been browsing through your site a lot nowadays and I am really impressed, I think you might potentially become one of the main voices for your market. Not sure what your workload is like in life, but if you started committing more time to posting here, I would bet you would begin getting a lot of visitors eventually. With advertisements, it could become a nice reserve income stream. Good luck!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Comment on Orlando Short Sales by Frances</h1> <p>Frances — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:15:08 +0000</p> <p>What is a short sale?</p> </article> <article> <h1>Comment on Survey: Sellers, buyers disagree on home values by Brady Pevehouse</h1> <p>Brady Pevehouse — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:22:37 +0000</p> <p>Therefore, when you have a personal finance decision to make, evaluate your options based on the information at hand today rather than an educated guess about the future. The future, after all, is subject to change — despite what the experts forecast.</p> <p>Jack Sternberg<br /> <a href="http://zakomail.com/go.php/717457/714196/4701338" rel="nofollow">http://zakomail.com/go.php/717457/714196/4701338</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Comment on The Vue sold at auction for $25.9M – Orlando Business Journal: by Roswell GA Homes</h1> <p>Roswell GA Homes — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:31:08 +0000</p> <p>Has anyone else noticed the market leveling out?</p> </article> <article> <h1>Comment on Bad day for many Real Estate Agents by Brady Pevehouse</h1> <p>Brady Pevehouse — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:48:57 +0000</p> <p>The numbers are out, ORRA, has seen an increase in number of agents to a current total of 9000 members.<br /> Or at least that is what they are claiming. Something tells me, that they did not purge their system of agents that had failed to pay their fees.</p> <p>Anything to try and keep them looking strong….?</p> <p>May 2010 vs May 2009 there was a drop of 314 members in comparison.</p> <p>I believe in 2009 the biggest drop came out in the August report for July statistics. So until then, I guess we just wait?</p> </article> <article> <h1>Comment on Avalon Park Foreclosure Video by VTR1000 lady</h1> <p>VTR1000 lady — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:53:02 +0000</p> <p>My friend and I were arguing about this! Now I know that I was right. lol! Thanks for making me sure!</p> <p>Sent from my Android phone</p> </article> <article> <h1>Comment on Short sale, sellers are walking away Video by VTR1000 Lady</h1> <p>VTR1000 Lady — Sat, 29 May 2010 03:55:38 +0000</p> <p>You gave great points here. I did some research on the subject and have found nearly all people agree with your blog.</p> <p>Sent via Blackberry</p> </article> </main></body></html>