Is it usual to see an agent write a personal check to cover a monetary dispute among the buyer and the seller? An example, that did not happen in our case, may be paying to cover tv wall mounts. Thanks!

I have a deal under contract and had an attorney review the contract. The contract is fine, but there are some other tricky things that I would like to do while still in attorney review. I would like to ask for a cred...

I hope some BPers find this valuable.

Brian

Handling Objections Training

Hi,Fannie mae just accepted my offer on one of their properties. I have yet to do an inspection (waiting for them to turn the utilities on). While i was there today, i ran into a neighbor who told me that the house wa...

I'm a real estate agent planning investing on some properties and I would like to know if I can negotiate my own short sale deals and submit my own offers... If so which kind of clauses would I use on the contract to ...

The more volume we do, the more of the same old lines I hear every day. I literally sit at my desk fielding phone calls from investors who want to negotiate down our asking price-- all day sometimes. The thing is, I h...

I bought a property at an hoa foreclosure and a mortgage lien survives and is itself in foreclosure. Are they likely to negotiate or will I have to pay the balance? I can't get the mortgage company to talk to me at al...

I am negotiating with the lawyers of 3 properties all owned by the same Lien holder. I am going to purchase the properties from them directly. BUT the properties are on the Upset Tax Sale. I am assuming someone will p...

I have been researching HELOCs and I have narrowed on few sources. Some offer 95% CLTV and some 80%. Some offer 1.99% for first 6 mos, then 2.99% with a floor of 2.99%, while some offer tad higher interest rates.
My...

I have 2 good leads on properties that are in the 1 year redemption period after tax sale. 1) Can I buy the property directly from them and get the deed prior to the end of the redemption period and then payoff the wi...