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Mortgages & Creative Financing Jun 21, 2011

‘Investors’ and Short Sales: Who Owns the Note?

By Mzavala

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Mortgages & Creative Financing Jun 14, 2011

Highest and Best Short Sale Offers – Is there such a thing?

By Mzavala

Several years ago, I read an article on one of the real estate websites entitled “Highest and Best Are Not Synonymous.” The title says it all: the highest offer is not always the best o...

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Mortgages & Creative Financing Jun 07, 2011

What Woodward and Bernstein Can Teach Us About Short Sales

By Mzavala

This past weekend I watched Woodward and Bernstein yet again as they did a little bit of recon work in order to expose the Watergate scandal. Believe it or not, it is that kind of intense due di...

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Mortgages & Creative Financing May 31, 2011

A Short Sale Is Like an Everlasting Gobstopper

By Mzavala

Christopher Columbus is known for discovering that the world is, in fact, round. Albert Einstein is known for his Theory of Relativity.  Well, I’ve got a theory, too. It’s the t...

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Mortgages & Creative Financing May 24, 2011

Buying a Short Sale? Caveat Emptor

By Mzavala

I ran into an old acquaintance recently (someone who I hadn’t seen for a number of years), and she was bringing me up to date on the goings on in her life. Some unfortunate things had happened t...

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Mortgages & Creative Financing May 17, 2011

REOs & Short Sales: A Steal or a Deal?

By Mzavala

I received a phone call yesterday from a buyer’s agent who was calling on one of our bank-owned (REO) listings. The bank had just reduced...

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Mortgages & Creative Financing May 10, 2011

Going Rogue – Is it Worth It?

By Mzavala

I’m not exactly sure why Sarah Palin called her book Going Rogue. A rogue is a mischievous or deceitful person. It would seem silly for someone to describe him...

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Mortgages & Creative Financing May 03, 2011

Murphy’s Law of Short Sales

By Mzavala

Everyone always discusses the grand irony of short sales. That is, we wait and wait and wait for the bank or the negotiator (or processor) at the bank to finally get to our file. Then, all of a ...

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Mortgages & Creative Financing Apr 26, 2011

How to Choose the Best Offer on Your Short Sale

By Mzavala

The expression “Cash is king” is often heard throughout the real estate community. But, when it comes to short sales, is cash really king? Does the ban...

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Real Estate News & Commentary Apr 19, 2011

If Purchasing Park Place Was Really That Easy….

By Mzavala

On Spring Break with the extended family, I had the opportunity to participate in a rousing game of Monopoly—modern-day Monopoly being that we

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Mortgages & Creative Financing Apr 12, 2011

When Buying a Short Sale as an Investment, Remember the Boy Scout Motto

By Mzavala

There are some great deals out there for investors looking to buy distressed properties—foreclosures and even short sales. But, there are a few things that investor buyers need to be aware of wh...

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Real Estate News & Commentary Apr 05, 2011

Has the Time Come to Get a Smokin’ Hot Deal on a Short Sale?

By Mzavala

Is it possible that the time has finally come for investors to buy short sales and get smokin’ deals? Over the past year or two, it has become increasingly more difficult for in...

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