Articles Index
Biography of Catherine Coy
Biography of mortgage broker Catherine Coy.
What Are Comparable Sales?
Explanation of comparable sales. Tips for how to find comps and why you need to know the comparable sales before buying a home. How to use comparable sales for selling a home.
How to Avoid a Principal Reduction Program Scam
How to determine if a principal reduction company is legitimate. Warning signs that the principal reduction program is a scam.
How to Make Lowball Offers
How to make a lowball offer that is not insulting to the seller. Tips on getting lowball offers accepted.
How to Apply for a Bank of America Cooperative Short Sale
Is it worth your while to apply for a Bank of America cooperative short sale? Step-by-step explanation of how to qualify for and how to apply for a Bank of America Cooperative Short Sale. How Bank of America determines if you are eligible for its cooperative short sale program.
How to Get Ready for Your Agent to List Your Home
How to get ready for your real estate agent. Before listing your home for sale, tips for getting ready to list. Ways to make a good first impression on your listing agent.
Biography of Dan Tharp
Bio of Dan Tharp, CMPS® at Comstock Mortgage, Sacramento.
7 Tips for Short Sale Success
Tips used by highly successful short sale agents to close that short sale. 7 unique tips for short success, tips that are guaranteed to help you to close that short sale with the first buyer.
How to Handle a Short Sale Counter Offer
Anticipating, preparing and negotiating a short sale counter offer. Whether the bank issues a counter offer for the short sale or the seller counters the buyers' offer, tips for handling the short sale counter offer.
Exactly What Are Short Sales?
Exactly what are short sales in real estate? What causes homes to go up for sale as short sales? Explanation of short sales.
Buying Distressed Homes: Foreclosures, Short Sales, REOs
Foreclosures, short sales and REOs: differences. Buying distressed properties under market value. Which is more profitable for a buyer -- short sales, foreclosures or real-estate-owned (REO's)? How CA law and the Home Equity Sales Act affects the purchase of homes in foreclosure.
How to Do a Bank of America Short Sale
How to get a short sale approved by Bank of America. Tips for navigating Equator.com to process Bank of America short sales.
Should You Hire a Referral Agent?
How does that work when a real estate agent refers an agent and collects a referral fee? Is it a good idea to hire the agent your real estate refers to you? A behind-the-scenes look at what happens when an agent refers another real estate agent in exchange for a referral fee
Who Profits From Short Sales?
Who wins on a short sale? Do sellers benefit from selling homes on short sales? Who profits from short sales? Are short sales better than foreclosures for a seller?
Benefits of Reverse Mortgages
Would you tell your mother to get a reverse mortgage? What are the benefits of a reverse mortgage? Definition of how reverse mortgages are funded. The costs and risks involved with obtaining a reverse mortgage.
How to Find Foreclosures
How to find foreclosures, government repossessed and bank repos. Find search engines that help you locate foreclosures after the Notice of Default is filed and homes seized by government entities.
Why Banks Want to Do a HAFA Short Sale
Why are banks so gung ho on pushing for a HAFA short sale? Bank of America routinely screens sellers for a HAFA short sale. Why banks want to do a HAFA short sale. How to reject a HAFA short sale.
The Short Sale HUD Approval Process
Why a bank approves a HUD for a short sale. Types of short sale fees a bank is likely to approve. How to increase the chances that your short sale HUD will get approved by the bank.
How to Get Rid of Dog Urine and Cat Urine Odors
How to get rid of cat urine odors or dog urine odors in a carpet and / or wood floors. Tips for selling a home that stinks like dog or cat urine. How to clean difficult cat urine odors that won't go away.
Homes in Songs
Songs about homes and houses. Top hit songs from the past century to present that pertain to homes, houses, going home, and also include original artist's name, year of release, album and a link to the lyrics.
The Best Time to List a Short Sale
When is the best time to list a short sale and put it on the market? With the length of time it takes to sell a short sale, you'll want to make sure you have enough time to list and sell your short sale. There is an ideal time to list your short sale.
10 Ways to Increase Traffic - How to Make Buyers / Agents Call
10 tips to increase traffic to your home. How to get buyers to see / tour your home. Making your phone ring with multiple requests for showings. Standing out in the crowd of homes on the market. Winning over home buyers.
Advertising Houses for Sale
Writing advertising about homes for sale. How to write effective home ads. Selling a house by writing ads for classifieds in newspapers and creating direct mail post cards that reach the largest number of home buyers.
The Upside to Buying a Short Sale
What are the advantages to buying a short sale, and why would a buyer choose to buy a short sale over any other kind of real estate transaction? The secret benefits to buying a short sale that your agent probably won't tell you.
Making the Bank Accept Your Short Sale Offer
Ways to negotiate with the short sale bank. How to make the bank accept a short sale offer. Tips for negotiating a short sale offer.