Pretty interesting find over at The Big Picture, detailing how to use Google Maps to find foreclosures: Google Maps keeps evolving, expanding the ability to drill down into granular detail. The latest updated trick? Mapping foreclosures for sale. Our friends at Chart Porn — a blog that got its name from one of our posts (honest!) [...]
Late last week; there was quite a ruffle up in the Internet about copyright violation and plagiarism related to Cook’s Source Magazine. It’s quite an interesting story and speaks to the understanding of copyright and content ownership on the Internet. The reason I bring it into the Art of Short Sales blog is that many [...]
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Everyone knows that a good short sale professional needs to have leads to be productive. That means that part of your workload needs to include finding new opportunities and getting your name out there. It doesn’t matter if you are a short sale investor or agent; without leads you have no work! There are two [...]
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Popping up on Twitter and elsewhere today was this new article from Bank of America claiming they have improved their short sales process. There is no date on this article so it’s hard to say when it was originally published, but here are some key pieces of information: High unemployment levels, declining home values and [...]
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We have spent a lot of time talking with our users over the past year about what works (and perhaps more importantly, what doesn’t work!) when managing your short sale pipeline. One of the key differences between successful investors and agents and ones that struggle (and a key factor in improving your successful closing rates) [...]
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