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Have you seen the absolutely ridiculous tax that our fearless leader is going to be hitting real estate professionals and normal homeowners with in the very near future? If you are either, buying or selling homes in any fashion, this will apply to you! Listen in to this week’s Friday Coffee break as I cover this buried real estate tax that will affect you.
We also cover whether you can buy and sell a Fannie Mae backed bank owned property …

If you have one of those magic watering-hole sticks it should be pointing and shaking at commercial real estate short sale opportunites.  If not, throw it away…it just ain’t workin’.  The latest numbers for CRE mortgage delinquencies are on the rise.  According to data from the Trepp report, 30+ days delinquent commercial loans more than doubled with a rise of 89 basis points to 7.61% last month.  That is the highest monthly increase since the summer of last year.

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Seems like this week has barely started and I have enough lender short sale and loan modification fodder to make me dizzy.  Those of us in the field assisting homeowners through a foreclosure alternative are always butting our heads against lender policies that seem to make no sense.  You’ve seen it: homeowners with a true hardship are put through more hoops than necessary, banks want more than the property can ever be sold for, second mortgages want to squeeze blood …

In today’s real estate investing industry there are so many so-called “Gurus,” whether they are real estate agents or platform speakers, which are teaching the niche of short sale investing the wrong way! One of the things that they often fail to hit the mark on is the issue of when to list a property when working a wholesale short sale on it. The question that they seek to answer is, “Do I list it before or after the foreclosing …