Real Estate Short Sales – How Does It Work?
Maybe some of you are thinking what short sale is all about and how it works. This article educates you about the short sale process. This offers a thorough explanation on procedures in a short sale business from the short sale request of the seller to the bank for its approval to the short sale request.
What is a short sale? Short sale is real estate sale in which the profits of the sale falls short of the balance payable on the loan of the property. This occurs when the borrower either has a hardship or the borrower owes more on the mortgage than the home is worth. In this instance, the bank would decide to sell the property and it would need both the party’s consent for the short sale to prevent foreclosure.
During a short sale process, the borrower or the seller of the property would first be required to put a financial package in order to be submitted to the short sale bank. The package consists of the letter of authorization, which lets your agent speak to the bank, HUD-1 or preliminary net sheet, a completed financial statement, the borrower’s hardship letter, 2 years of tax returns, 2 years of W-2s, recent payroll stubs, last two months of bank statements, and the comparative market analysis or list of recent comparable sales. Once the package has been submitted to the bank, the bank will then seek prospective buyers for the property.
If a buyer is keen on buying the property, he will then be required to send a short sale offer letter to the bank. Once this is done, the bank would negotiate with the seller. If the seller accepts the offer, the listing agent would send the listing agreement, executed purchase offer, the pre-approval letter of the buyer and copy of earnest money check and the short sale package of the seller to the bank. The short sale is then processed by the bank.
The bank first acknowledges the receipt of the file. This may take 10 days to a month. Next, a negotiator is designated to be in charge of the negotiation. A broken price opinion is ordered subsequently. The bank probably would decline to share the results of the BPO. The file is then sent for review or to the pooling service agreement. This might take another two weeks to thirty days. After the file has been reviewed, the bank may then request that all parties sign an arm’s-length affidavit. The bank, finally issues a short sale approval letter.
It takes much time for a short sale to be approved. This is the foremost reason why most of the buyers call off their short sale transactions. Buyers could get tired of waiting a very long time to receive a response from the bank. Thus short sale is not for you if you’re a kind of buyer with a little patience.
Short sale is a business which requires to be researched properly first before you engage on it. You must have a good agent who understands this process fully. Adam Alcaraz, of Orange County real estate would like to help you on your short sale troubles. Adam has been an Orange County short sale agent for fifteen years and has been successfully handling short sales in all the cities of the Orange County.
To find your greatest resource to aid your efforts in Short Sale visit http://www.ocshortsaleco.com . The website is filled with a wealth of data of interest to anyone considering a short sale. Adam Alcaraz an Orange County real estate agent provides a portfolio of many recent short sale transactions along with answers to the most common questions asked by those in this situation. He is ready to answer your short sale questions too. Call him now: (877) 511-2611.
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