News across the country tends to mention that home foreclosures are declining, prompting many consumers to consider buying a short sale or attending a public auction. However, the numbers can be misleading. The fact is that many home foreclosure numbers are currently down solely due to the fact that lenders are not beginning the foreclosure [...]
In an unprecedented philanthropic gesture, military families in need and wounded warriors suffering from PTSD are getting a chance to benefit from a huge Colorado house raffle being called the “Support Our Troops-Win A Home!” Raffle. With reports of the need growing daily for PTSD treatment of our US Military men and women returning from [...]
With foreclosure investing becoming more popular than ever, many investors are carefully weiighing the benefits of short sales versus loan modifications. Short sales are still perceived to be highly lucrative in many markets even though retail values continue to plummet or have stagnated. This downward spiral in housing values has caused many homeowners to successfully [...]
With a seemingly never ending supply of foreclosed homes across the country, buying short sales seems to appeal to many investors of all experience levels. According to a recent poll of new real estate investors hoping to take advantage of expanding buyer’s markets nationwide, the biggest roadblock to succeeding seems to be the fear of [...]
One single goal in the mind of a Grand Junction, CO resident will support our troops and military families via a nationwide house raffle. It’s hard to believe, with housing prices where they are today and loans difficult for most to obtain, that a $500,000 custom home nestled on 40 wooded acres above Grand Junction, [...]
With increased tightening of conventional lending criteria, many real estate investors looking to find foreclosures have been introduced to bigger pockets of hard money lenders. Recent studies reveal that more people are becoming involved in foreclosure investing than ever before. However, as conventional money sources seem to dry up on a daily basis, hard money [...]
While many real estate investors are scrambling these days trying to get in front of the best investing opportunities, an elite corp of real estate investors seem to be debating whether short sales and pre foreclosure deals outweigh the merits of buying REOs. The answer may not be as obvious as it seems. With most [...]
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage plans to host a free workshop geared towards distressed borrowers living in San Bernardino County in an experimental attempt to curtail California foreclosure rates. Because the areas of San Bernardino and Riverside counties in California are included in the list of hardest hit areas of the US in terms of home [...]
With an ever increasing number of foreclosures happening daily across the country, it’s only a matter of time before tax payers will likely be forced to pick up the tab for bank short sale mishaps related to top ranking California foreclosures. Figures relating to each of the three stages of the foreclosure process declined from [...]
Investor panic from the foreclosure moratorium has uncovered considerably bigger pockets of short sale credit opportunities in many real estate markets across the country than previously known. While many real estate investing opportunities have seemingly gone by the wayside in the past three years, previously under served strategies are being exploited by savvy investors. Many [...]
