If you are a REALTOR working with a homeowner who is in the military and J.P. Morgan Chase is the mortgage servicer then get ready to rumble. If you are not taking advantage and leveraging the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) then you are trying to do your job with a knife while your enemy [...]
2,500 Homeowners Put Into Foreclosure While Awaiting Mortgage Modifications
December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This is very scary for anyone attempting a mortgage modification and/or short sale. Imagine thinking that your short sale or loan modification was “in review” (we discuss this review process in another article here) then suddenly find out you are in foreclosure or worse – foreclosed already. Sadly this happens every month in the Greater [...]
Holiday Foreclosure Freeze? No, not for Texas.
December 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Although Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and several other large lenders are claiming a Holiday Gift with their self imposed foreclosure freeze sadly it won’t help Texans one single bit! This “gift” is nothing more than a shameless attempt at improving their poor public image. Why won’t it help Texans? Because although they will suspend foreclosures [...]
LIVE TODAY @ 11:30am – Keller Williams Signature (Katy)
December 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
December 10, 2011 at 11:30 AM staff members from Home Solution Counselors & The Gore Law Firm will be presenting at Katy’s Keller Williams Signature office. Leveraging Short Sales Maximizing Commissions & Minimizing Risks Lunch will be provided.
Tips for Success with Bank of America’s Equator system
December 6, 2010 By 4 Comments
Part 2 – Equator Tips for Success If you want to be successful in short sales that require Equator make sure to employ these Tips and Traps. Part 1 can be read here The following Equator tips and traps come from Dan Welch. Dan Welch is the lead short sale negotiator for Home Solution Counselors [...]
Traps to Avoid with Bank of America’s Equator system.
December 3, 2010 By 3 Comments
Part 1 – Equator Traps to Avoid. If you want to be successful in short sales that require Equator make sure to employ these Tips and Traps. The following Equator tips and traps come from Dan Welch. Dan Welch is the lead short sale negotiator for Home Solution Counselors. Dan saw the light and fled [...]
December foreclosures set to go through the roof
November 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Foreclosure are back with a vengeance in the Greater Houston area- just in time for Christmas. While November saw a lull in the number of homes posted for the monthly foreclosure auction, December is set to roar back with over 6,700 homes posted for sale. Posted Homes for Foreclosure Posted foreclosures for the Greater Houston [...]
Homes in Houston foreclosed regardless of the “Hold”
November 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
While many of the large banks claimed to have foreclosures on hold in October (and yes even November) so they could review their foreclosure procedures it appears they didn’t “hold” back much in the Greater Houston Area. Harris County shows 786 foreclosed in November vs 1,246 foreclosed in October. Fort Bend County shows 114 foreclosed [...]
November 2 Foreclosure Sale Date. 5,463 set to go?
November 1, 2010 By 1 Comment
Although some of the largest mortgage banks (servicers of mortgages) such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase and GMAC have announced in varying releases that they are halting foreclosures while they review their procedures, they haven’t stopped posting and prepping to auction off over 5,000 homes in the Greater Houston Area. How many folks [...]
Is the foreclosure halt a mirage?
October 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This is very troubling. Every foreclosure attorney that is on the other side from us, including GMAC / Ally & Bank of America is reporting to us that they are being directed by their clients – READ: Banks – that the November 2, 2010, foreclosure sales are still on. YES, THEY PLAN TO FORECLOSE PROPERTIES [...]
