{"id":1346,"date":"2007-04-25T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2007-04-25T08:00:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T15:00:16","slug":"sensible-flats-and-social-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1346\/sensible-flats-and-social-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensible Flats and Social Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been busy lately, so busy that while my back was turned I missed about 47 Russell Shaw Podcasts. Sorry, Russell. I fully intend to listen in, uninterrupted, when I have a sufficient block of time (say, the month of May?), but I have been too busy with business to learn how to do <em>more<\/em> business. I have been reading Inman like I read the daily print rag &#8211; Headlines only. And only a teaser along the lines of &#8220;Greg Swann to Speak at Annual Humility Conference&#8221; would have tempted me to get side-tracked.<\/p>\n<p>So, what I have been doing all week is a lot of mechanical real estate stuff (prepare for the listing, take the listing, market the listing, manage the escrow). What I have been doing a lot more of, however, is listening. By Friday, my husband Steve (or, my wacky sidekick, as he often calls himself) may be threatening to have the phone surgically removed from my ear.<\/p>\n<p>What I have learned can be generally categorized as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A bunch of well-intended people are knee-deep in bad loan doo-doo in my area, far more than I knew.<\/li>\n<li>Steve and I are finding that Pro Bono work is taking a considerable amount of our time these days, and we don&#8217;t mind.<\/li>\n<li>Lenders and loan brokers are making us look good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Steve and I, in the past week alone, have met or spoken repeatedly and at length with three different couples in trouble. The situations have ranged from the sad to the tragic. In each case, we have felt it was our obligation and duty to meet with the parties to pencil out scenarios and discuss the implications of the various options. In each case, we knew that we would not be paid for our time, now or in the future. Call it social responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>My &#8220;tragic&#8221; example involved a military family with three properties totaling approximately $1.7 million in value, all acquired within the past two years, the most recent having closed escrow just a couple of months ago. Each was purchased with or refinanced into a 100% interest only loan with negative amortization. Due <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1346\/sensible-flats-and-social-responsibility\/#more-1346\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been busy lately, so busy that while my back was turned I missed about 47 Russell Shaw Podcasts. Sorry, Russell. I fully intend to listen in, uninterrupted, when I have a sufficient block of time (say, the month of May?), but I have been too busy with business to learn how to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1900,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1900\/you-can-use-the-no-hassle-iphone-to-hang-up-on-the-nar-but-first-attend-to-those-odysseus-medal-nominations\/","url_meta":{"origin":1346,"position":0},"title":"You can use the No-Hassle iPhone to hang up on the NAR, but first attend to those Odysseus Medal nominations","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Wanna hear something amazing? 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Cathy had a buyer-rich day. A final walk-through on a new build. The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1253,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1253\/ask-the-broker-asks-the-audience-what-do-you-use-for-a-listing-system\/","url_meta":{"origin":1346,"position":2},"title":"Ask the Broker asks the audience: What do you use for a listing system?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Another wide-open Ask the Broker question came in over the transom:Very rewarding and refreshing to listen to Russell Shaw. Wow, I wish I lived nearby. I'd love to see Russ live in April. Having said that, I heard Russell say listing homes is my future. It really sank in. 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