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Joe: Hey, this is Joe Crump. Welcome to my video. This next question here is from Babbs
Stilly. Babbs is a realtor. She's from Kansas in Missouri, she says. She says,
Babbs: 'I need some starter information on short sales. What is the benefit to the owner
versus foreclosure? How do I get paid my commission on top of the lender taking less for the sale?
How do homeowners associations get paid that are in arrears? Do I send an offer with a
request for a short sale to the lender? What if there is a second on the house as well?
Thanks, Babbs.' Joe: First of all, let's talk about short
sales and the value of doing short sales. There's a lot of people out there that are
teaching short sales as being a viable way of working as an investor. And you can make
a lot of money in short sales. There's no reason you can't make money in it. But also
know, and this just came out from the National Association of Realtors, that only one in
nine offers that are made to lenders for short sales are accepted. So you're on an uphill
battle. If you know how to do it, you really understand the process, and if you really
know how to make the thing happen, you have a chance of making it happen. But, lenders
are not stupid. They're going to try to get the most amount of money that they can from
the properties, and if it makes sense for them to take the property back and list it,
they're going to do that instead. Joe: So don't expect to get 30-60% discounts
on short sales. I don't see that happening very often. But let me answer your specific
questions about short sales, because I think it's relevant and there's still a lot of people
that are doing it. Joe: The benefits to the owner versus foreclosure?
One, is that it's going to have a different impact on their credit, although not very
much, because it's still going to show up that it was given over as a deed in lieu of
foreclosure -- it's not really going to keep their credit clean. Usually if they're going
into foreclosure, the bank won't even talk to them about doing a short sale until they're
late three months and until they're filing a notice of default. This is an average number
across the country. It's different in different places with different lenders.
Joe: Some lenders are waiting for a very long time before they're filing a notice of default
because they don't want the property back right now and they're just having a hard time
keeping up with the foreclosures that are happening. So, is there a huge benefit to
the seller? Not really. They're not getting any money out of the deal. It would be much
better for them if you took over the property subject to the existing loan, if they just
deeded you the property and you started making their payments. And hopefully you can find
them at a time before they stop making their payments.
Joe: This is the best group to go after. Everybody thinks they need to go after people who are
in foreclosure and that they're going to get the best deal doing that, but that's not the
case. What we're finding is we're going after fore sale by owners, people who are still
making their payments and want to sell their property but who can't sell their property
because there's not enough equity in there to hire a realtor to do it, so they try to
do it themselves. They aren't successful with it because nobody out there can get a loan
to buy it from them. Joe: So we're going to them saying, 'Why don't
you just deed us the property? We'll take it subject to the existing loan. You'll stay
on the loan. We'll be on the deed. You'll be responsible for the loan. We won't give
you a down payment. You make the next payment on the property and we'll take over the property
and we'll put a tenant in there.' That's one of the things that I've been doing. I did
one yesterday, and she was very, very pleased that I took it off her hands, even though
she's still on the loan and even though she's still responsible and even though she has
to make the next payment on the property (because I want to have enough time to fill the property
before I start making the payments). Joe: And by the way, if you don't want to
have the responsibility of making those payments until you know you have a tenant, you can
set it up as a purchase agreement rather than just having them deed it to you and they can
only close the deal if you find a tenant. So if you don't really understand how to find
tenants and how to make that process work, and you're nervous about that and you just
want to make a quick flip, you go out there and find a tenant get them in there, make
some money that way, and then you'll have a good tenant for that property.
Joe: Now, the "For Rent Method" that I've talked about on other videos is a different
thing altogether because you're just flipping the property -- you're not going to keep the
property. You're not going to keep the property for the long term.
Joe: One thing about keeping properties for the long term -- that's how you get rich.
If you're just flipping the properties, you're going to make cash flow, and you're going
to make nice cash flow -- you can make excellent 6 figure incomes -- high six figure incomes
-- on these types of things, but you're not going to get rich. You're not going to do
the 7 figure stuff, which is where you're going to want to be, and you're not going
to have the long term residual value unless you keep the property.
Joe: How do homeowners associations get aid if they're in arrears? If you're doing a short
sale and the bank accepts a certain price, they'll deal with the homeowners association.
They'll deal with any liens on the property. They'll deal with any late payments. They'll
deal with the second mortgage -- if there's a second mortgage, they go and negotiate with
the second mortgage holder and if the second mortgage holder won't negotiate, then they
won't do the short sale. But a lot of times, the second will. Most of the time, what I've
seen in short sales is that that second gets completely thrown out, so they have to have
a second that is willing to do that. Joe: That's one of the reasons why these things
fall apart. The lender wants to get as much money from the deal as they can, so they're
not as flexible as all the hype out there about short sales suggests. Anyway, I hope
that helps.