{"id":2848,"date":"2008-03-28T22:06:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T05:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2008-03-28T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T05:28:08","slug":"arizona-short-sales-not-for-the-faint-of-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2848\/arizona-short-sales-not-for-the-faint-of-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Short Sales Not For The Faint of Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve commented before about short sales on this blog, but not to much extent, and I haven’t seen many of the other contributers do it either. I wonder why? Does everyone abhor them? Are they afraid of them?<\/p>\n

I have taken a lot of advice around here, and one of the best pieces of advise I have gleened is to write about something that interests me, and build a long tail. Well, the long tail has actually been working. I have written on my home blog about The Ins & Outs of Arizona Short Sales<\/a>,\u00a0 and lo and behold, people started coming out of the woodwork. And I don’t mean a few. Let us just say it’s been a fabulous return on investment.<\/p>\n

I have agents calling me from around the country asking for short sale help. I have homeowners calling me (from around the country, no less) about the possibility of doing a short sale on their home. I refer them out. (Incidentally, if you are from some other state than AZ, and you are familiar with short sales, send your contact information to me, I may have clients for you.)<\/p>\n

I would like to first give a shout out to the new Barry<\/a>. His Real Estate Radio USA\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0has been very cool and helpful for me professionally, and is entertaining to boot.<\/p>\n

When I say that short sales are not for the faint of heart, I mean that in two distinct ways: for realtors, and for sellers.<\/p>\n

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Realtors are running up against brick walls with “The Gate Keepers.” That’s what I call the people who protect the actual “loss mitigators” like the Swiss Guard protects the Pope. Loss mitigators are behind bullet-proof glass, tucked away somewhere in a bunker under the Potomac river, without email, without phone lines, without fax machines; they are completely incommunicado. They send messages between the bunker and the outside world by carrier pigeon. The particular brand of pigeon they use is not one of the kind where you separate\u00a0it from its home turf by a thousand miles, thow it up in the air, where it circles a few times and Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 I’ve commented before about short sales on this blog, but not to much extent, and I haven’t seen many of the other contributers do it either. I wonder why? Does everyone abhor them? Are they afraid of them? 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