Investing in real estate in today’s market, and more specifically investing in preforeclosures, ensures that an investor will likely come across a short sale. A short sale is when the lender agrees to accept less than what is owed against the property in exchange for full acceptance of payment of the loan. In other words, if the loan balance is $400,000 but the bank accepts $300,000 as full payoff, then a short sale has occurred.
Many investors find short sales difficult to negotiate and complete on their own and often do not take on these deals. The main reason investors find it difficult to do on their own is that lenders are constantly changing their rules and practices, and short sales by nature are complex and time consuming.
However, some real estate investors have decided to outsource their short sales. If a real estate investor chooses to outsource their short sale negotiations he or she would still meet with the homeowner and get all of the necessary paperwork to ensure a complete short sale packet. But after that, the ease and simplicity of outsourcing to a company who does negotiations on a daily basis takes over. The investor simply sends the complete short sale packet to his or her outsourcing company of choice, and they are the ones that then do all of the work on behalf of the investor.
There are many companies that will help real estate investors negotiate their short sales. Through outsourcing, the real estate investor will no longer have to sit on hold, fax paperwork, or do other mundane tasks associated with negotiating a short sale. The outsourced short sale company takes care of all of this work for the investor.
Since the outsourcing company is working on many files for many different investors, they are building more relationships faster at a wider variety of lenders. They have a larger rolodex of contacts at more banks, and have a proven track record of closing deals with many lenders, thereby making their files and their deals more desirable for the lender to look at.
In today’s world of outsourcing, it’s no longer necessary for a real estate investor to negotiates his or her own short sales. In fact, many investors believe that negotiating their own short sales is not a good use of their time. Preforeclosure investors who outsource their short sales free up their time to focus on buying and selling properties, not negotiating short sales or faxing documents to lenders trying to get a short sale deal closed.
Outsourcing short sales allows real estate investors to work on more deals at once, and have a virtual team of experts on his staff, the outsourced short sale company, without the overhead. The best outsourced short sale companies are paid on performance, after they have negotiated the short sale deal to the price that the investor has set. This makes outsourcing a no risk proposition for the smart preforeclosure investor.
About the author of this article:
the short sale formula provides a step-by-stop formula to show real estate investors how to put together a short sale packet, outsource short sale files, conduct back-to-back closings and finance short sales once they are complete. the short sale formula is owned and operated by savemefromforeclosure.com, llc.
