Anyways, the unit i saw yesterday was an awesome high rise condo in Little Italy (trendy neighborhood downtown) with an ocean view.

As a realtor when you have a legitimate short sale and have the property listed at less than the payoff amount you need to include the phrase " subject to lender approval".

If someone were going to make an educated criticism of something you cannot include the phrases and words that Reed uses.

How would you phrase it?

That's obviously a very good trend. I

"Great deals" is just a marketing trigger phrase.

As you can see, this is a situation ripe for fraud and in fact, many do use it to commit fraud.And with regard to the seminar, the big phrase is "if you are not withholding crucial information" it is not fraud.Ok, fine, but then you have to ask what is "crucial information".

I realize an agent may think they are phrasing it in a way that sounds more acceptable, but in reality it just makes me think they really don't know what they are doing.

You can enter a keyword or phrase and it tells you about how many searches there are for it.

Look for phrases like lender "shall forgive the deficiency/balance" "shall not pursue the balance of the debt" "shall waive the deficiency /balance" "shall consider the $ received as full satisfaction of..." etc.NOT "lender shall lender release the mortgage for the $ received, but retain the right to puruse...."