Rob Jacobs

Short Sale expert & real estate Coach. As the nation's most experienced veteran short sale expert, I am proud to have helped over 3000 homeowners from foreclosure over the past 20 years. Providing Short sale coaching and negotiations for Realtors nationwide. Currently enrolling for the next Mastering Short Sales course. The best short sale coaching and training anywhere! 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I am here to provide the necessary guidance to agents and homeowners when they need an expert to stop foreclosure and help sell their home before it causes financial ruin. BIO Throughout my 20-year real estate career, I have experienced more than most agents have in their entire lifetime. As a forerunner in the short sale niche, I have amassed over 3000 career closings and have been coaching and training agents for 20 years across the USA. As a pioneer of the short sale niche in real estate and one of the first agents to take on short sales as a professional commitment and business model, I have had the pleasure of helping thousands of homeowners in distress to avoid foreclosure and subsequently bankruptcy. For those who qualify, I have helped thousands more keep their homes thus avoiding the short sale process altogether. PRIOR TO REAL ESTATE Prior to my real estate career, I turned a lawn mowing biz that I started to help get through college into a 5 Million dollars per year custom landscape design/install company. In only 3 years I went from pushing a mower to owning 15 trucks, a 5 acre supply center, and over 30 employees. All done while attending college full time. I sold the business after 9-11 to my right hand man so that I could concentrate on my next adventure. I had secured venture funding for what might have been a massively successful gardening web based business. Unfortunately, the dot-com bust happened and all venture funding eventually disappeared by 2002 MY REAL ESTATE JOURNEY All things happen for a reason and this is what brought me to real estate. I obtained my real estate license in early 2003 and my life and business focus was forever changed. As a rookie agent, I doubled the sales of all other rookie agents in the 3 MLS associations that I joined in only 5 months of their yearly awards cycle. In 2006, I obtained the company where I started my real estate career with plans of turning it into a short sale listing company. Where I live in the rust belt, we were in decline 2 years before the rest of the country due to the auto industry tanking. 6 months prior to the crash, I sold the real estate company to concentrate solely on my rapidly growing national presence as an expert short sale negotiator. This was the best decision I ever made. Due to the 2008 mortgage crisis, short sales exploded nationally. I was negotiating 70-80 short sales at a time with a small team of 4 people! I nearly turned my company into a HUD non-profit but, the paperwork involved was astounding. Rather than go this route, I decided to help as many people as possible regardless of income and I eventually completed over 800 short sales and modifications for free or minimal cost to people who needed my help. So far I have successfully completed over 3200 short sales that I negotiated. Not handed off to my team, yes they helped tremendously but, I did the negotiating on all of them so, when you see someone who has my numbers, ask if they really did the negotiating or, was it their staff that completed the deals for them. I already know the answer. After years of hard negotiating, the market slowed and finally, it was just me again. I had some investment properties which I sold in order to take a break from the mayhem of business that I'd dealt with for the past 25 years. Then the pandemic happened and here we go again! I immediately went to work writing the most comprehensive short sale training ever created! The mastering short sales series of courses teaches agents how to close 99% of their short sales. The program is based upon my extensive experience and I hold nothing back. Nobody gives all of their secrets out right? My agenda is not to get rich teaching these courses, it’s to teach agents how to stop foreclosures and help homeowners in distress in their communities. You get all of my tips and tricks that led to my massive success so, yes, I’m handing it all over on a silver platter for those who want to be prepared for the changing market. Selling short sale courses to agents who are being told by their brokers and team leaders has been anything but easy. The viewpoint that everything will be fine, the economy is going to recover fast, and it won't affect housing is handed out daily by the talking heads of the real estate industry. This infuriated me to the point where I began releasing videos and articles on the economy as it affects the real estate industry and housing prices in general. The agenda is clear, the industry doesn't want the boom to end. NAR, MBA, Youtube real estate talking heads, team leaders, and Brokers continue telling the agents that this is just a blip on the radar and that things will be back to normal once spring 2023 arrives. Most of the people spinning misinformation don't know any better but, the top players do know better and they fail to realize that by creating false hope, they are sacrificing the trust that the agents have put in them when they should be training them and preparing them for the recession and housing decline. This will end badly for the misguided agents who follow and listen to these sunshine salesmen. GOALS & ACHEIVEMENTS My goal is to help the agents and the real estate community better traverse the difficult short sale niche and be better prepared for the coming housing crisis that was created by years of ultra-low interest rates and an overzealous economy. Many banks have approached me over the years to run their loss mitigation departments. I have not accepted these lucrative proposals in lieu of helping the homeowners and agents obtain the help that they direly need. Many of my students have gone on to become top agents within their respective markets and fields of interest. IN 2022 one of myv students was named realtor of the year for her efforts as voted on by her clients and not the industry which in my humble opinion means a lot more than the meritocracy awards handed out to agents for production rather than compassion. Nothing makes me prouder than to see my students go on to become industry leaders within their communities. I have written multiple certification courses and training programs for the Real Estate industry including RE Associations, RE Companies, RE schools, and title companies over the years. I was an advisor to the once very popular designation course in 2007 as it was being created. (I won't mention the name since it was closed and then recently sold and re-launched). I have recently created an all new Short Sale certification program for a large national real estate company that will be launched in early to mid-2023 in order to get agents trained and prepared for the impending recession and national home price declines. Over the past few years, I have become known as an expert real estate market analyst and have been invited into many mastermind groups, social and video platforms, podcasts, and interviews to talk about the real estate market as we go through the inflationary cycle. I CAN HELP YOU If you or anyone you know if trouble with their mortgage, please reach out to me for help. I'll assess your situation to see if you can keep your home. If a loan modification is not in the cards, I'll help you obtain short sale approval so that you can sell your home on your terms. This is only a 2-year hit on your credit if the servicer even reports it to the credit bureaus. You may also be eligible for a $3000 relocation check at closing! If you are an agent, investor, title officer, team leader, RE Attorney, managing broker, or you are in any real estate-related occupation and you need help with short sales, I have multiple options for you. I offer expert coaching and training programs and short sale negotiations for all of the above. I can teach you everything needed to get 99% of your short sales approved or, I can negotiate the short sale for you at no cost. I would recommend that anyone listing or negotiating a short sale be fully trained prior to taking on any short sale as it can cost you thousands of dollars and your license if you don't do them correctly. Short sales are rife with problems and YOU are always at fault if the deal falls through! Based on my 20 years in this niche, I don't see any changes coming so, the best I can do is teach you what I know so that the next generation is better prepared. These cycles will continue as the industry forgets what happened only 15 years ago. In another 15 years or less, we'll be knocking on this door again. I am here to help as I have been for the past 20 years. I will not quit until the system is corrected or the cycle outlives me. Rob [email protected] 734-236-1220