Question: What the heck are all these agents ranting and raving about…? Answer: They just attended the Harris Real Estate University Superstar Interview. The Topic is: 10 No-Brainer Motivational Secrets, How To Be Motivated Every Day! Listen NOW to the FREE 60 Minute Real Estate Training Event. Andy Golding – Sedona-Cottonwood, AZ Thanks for a great program–lots of worthwhile topics covered…and covered well! Roberta - Thank you Tim for all of the energy you spent and I’m truly motivated! Sharri - Small changes over time make a big difference. Thank you for sharing.. Sharon – San Bernardino WOW! Right on point. Recently had [...] Click Here To View More
Breaking News: New Foreclosures Fall, Short Sales Closing Faster…Housing Recovery Here?
New foreclosure report (video) is equally good and bad. First the good (great?) news: * The real estate market has clear hit bottom and now is showing some signs of life. Inventories of homes across the US are decreasing. * New mortgage delinquencies saw the largest drop ever under finally back to the historical long-term average of around 3.1%. * In most markets home sellers are receiving multiple offers. * HREU students are reporting their short sales are closing in less than 45 days. And Now…the bad news: * Loans in the foreclosure process are rising, now 4.9% * FHA [...] Click Here To View More
Bank of America Short Sale Incentive Program..Up To $30,000 Paid To YOU!
Looking for great short sale listing lead generation ideas? Thanks to Harris Real Estate University students Grant and Gia Freer for creating this video about the Bank of America Short Sale Incentive Program. Gia reported to me that they have secured 5-6 great listing leads in the first 48 hours after posting on YouTube. I have made it easy for you to replicate their success. Following the video are the key words etc that resulted in high organic search placement. EVERY HREU student needs to recreate this video asap! Urgent Short Sale Notice: Must attend Short Sale industry update. New fast [...] Click Here To View More
Bank of America Short Sale Assistance Program Pays Sellers Up To $30,000!
Short Sale Agent Update Limited Time OfferMay 15, 2012 Short Sale Relocation Assistance Program: Your clients could receive $2,500 to $30,000 in relocation assistance Your financially distressed clients want to avoid foreclosure. You want to help them. So do we!That’s why Bank of America is excited to announce that for a limited time, we are offering enhanced relocation assistance payments in which qualified homeowners who initiate a short sale without an offer could be eligible to receive $2,500 – $30,000* in relocation assistance and owe no more on their mortgage with the sale of their property. Don’t miss this limited-time offer to get your distressed clients [...] Click Here To View More
HARRIS REAL ESTATE UNIVERSITY Student Success! | California Agent Come Back Story
Dear Tim and Julie, Over the last 2 years I have been on your BPO/RSD Coaching program I have been able to survive the downturn of the Real Estate Market and remain in the Real Estate business just from all the BPO income that I generated with your Professional guidance. In fact, the first couple of month of the Coaching program has helped me receive many BPO assignments thus helped me to quickly get over the learning curves and after the 5th month I was averaging between $ 6,000 to $ 8,000 per month BPO income. And in the process [...] Click Here To View More
How To Get A Mortgage Now…Required Credit Scores and Downpayments (you might be surprised)
What does your credit score and downpayments have to be inorder to get a mortgage at today’s ultra low rates? You might be surprised. 660 with less than 3% down will work if applying for a FHA mortgage. (What I found interesting was how little your credit score effects your monthly payment.) Watch this video and share your comments. Urgent Short Sale Notice: Must attend Short Sale industry update. New fast close, direct assignment short sales. Learn how to become a Lender Preferred Short Sale Agent. Grab your spot for the FREE Short Sale Industry Update Training Event. Warning: Limited space available for this industry [...] Click Here To View More
The Return Of Home Value Appreciation | The Great Real Estate Recovery of 2012!
The return of actual..honest to God…home value appreciation. WOW do I ever love sharing this video with you… THE RETURN OF HOME PRICE APPRECIATION (that is not based in mere inflation) The hardest hit markets that suffered through the worst of the housing crash are making the quickest come back. Share this video with E V E R Y O N E! Urgent Short Sale Notice: Must attend Short Sale industry update. New fast close, direct assignment short sales. Learn how to become a Lender Preferred Short Sale Agent. Grab your spot for the FREE Short Sale Industry Update Training Event. Warning: Limited space available [...] Click Here To View More
Bank of America Principal Mortgage Balance Reduction Program…Do YOU Qualify?
Bank of America’s Principal Mortgage Debt forgiveness Program Details. Do YOU qualify…are you one of the 200,000 who qualify for Bank of America’s Principal Mortgage Balance reduction program? Watch this video and share your comments: Urgent Short Sale Notice: Must attend Short Sale industry update. New fast close, direct assignment short sales. Learn how to become a Lender Preferred Short Sale Agent. Grab your spot for the FREE Short Sale Industry Update Training Event. Warning: Limited space available for this industry wide event. Register now! Click Here To View More
Bank of America Principal Forgiveness Program..How To Get $150k Knocked Off Your Loan.
As reported on RealEstateInsiderNews.com several months ago Bank of America has introduced the nations first (potentially significant) Principal Forgiveness Program. Underwater qualifying homeowners could see monthly savings of up to 35 percent on mortgage payments, with principal balances cut by an average of $150,000 according to New York Times reports. The program forms part of a $25 billion settlement agreement earlier this year with 49 state attorneys general and other federal authorities. Who qualifies? The bank said it planned to contact more than 200,000 homeowners who could be candidates for the offers, sending letters to a majority of them by [...] Click Here To View More
Factoring In Inflation..Homes Are Back To 1895 Values (Video)
Waiting for housing prices to rebound? Don’t hold your breath… so says SmartMoney’s Jack Hough who pulls up a chair on Mean Street and points out the truth in numbers. When will U.S. house prices recover? Likely never. But that’s no reason not to buy. The latest S&P / Case-Shiller numbers, reported last week, show that prices in 20 major markets declined 3.5% over the year through February. They’re now back to 2002 levels. If we subtract for inflation, they’re back to 1998 levels. Agents, watch this video and share your comments… Urgent Short Sale Notice: Must attend Short Sale industry [...] Click Here To View More
Rapper ‘Vanilla Ice’ Offers Tips on Flipping Houses | Return Of The House Flipper
I will admit it, watching The Vanilla Ice Project is a ‘guilty pleasure’. Mr. Vanilla Ice Rob Van Winkle is is doing very well for himself, improving neighborhoods, employing dozens of people and motivating folks to get back into real estate. Vanilla Ice started filming a reality television series called The Vanilla Ice Project which premiered on DIY Network on October 14, 2010. The season is focused on renovating a house in Palm Beach, Florida with each episode dedicated to a different room in the house. In 2011, Van Winkle published a book on the subject,Vanilla Ice Project – Real Estate Guide on how to succeed in [...] Click Here To View More
Where Have The REOs Gone? | How To List REOs and Make Money From BPOs
Where are all the foreclosures (and REO listings)? According to LPS Applied Analytics and CoreLogic…they are coming. Here are the facts from LPS: * LPS reports newly started foreclosures are up 8.1% on a monthly basis. * Yet this is 31.1% below where they were in March 2011. * Delinquencies are down 8.8%. (are the banks not reporting late paying owners?) * The number of borrowers who are either in foreclosure, or 90 days behind on their mortgage payments is down, too, by 6.7%. CoreLogic’s has similar results: * March of this year saw 69,000 completed foreclosures. * Delinquency rates [...] Click Here To View More
Valerie Fitzgerald ‘Selling LA’, Harris Real Estate University Superstar
Watch Harris Real Estate University Superstar Valerie Fitzgerald tonight on HGTV’S “Selling LA” 9 PM PST Urgent Short Sale Notice: Must attend Short Sale industry update. New fast close, direct assignment short sales. Learn how to become a Lender Preferred Short Sale Agent. Grab your spot for the FREE Short Sale Industry Update Training Event. Warning: Limited space available for this industry wide event. Register now! This week’s episode: Valerie Fitzgerald has a new $13.995M, 14,000 sq. ft. Mulholland Estates home to sell for young overseas developer William. Problem is, it’s totally empty. Valerie convinces her client to spend 300,000 on staging and furnishings. Click Here To View More
Atlanta Market Nears Bottom, Short Sales Agents Dominate
Harris Real Estate University has 100s of students in and around the Atlanta area…this video is a very accurate representation of what is happening now in Atlanta. Bottom line: Short Sales dominate the market and the upper end sellers are embracing short sales. Did you know that HREU offers short sale training specifically focused on upper end, luxury home owners? Read more about the HREU Lender Preferred Luxury Distressed Property Designation. Urgent Short Sale Notice: Must attend Short Sale industry update. New fast close, direct assignment short sales. Learn how to become a Lender Preferred Short Sale Agent. Grab your spot for [...] Click Here To View More
Harris Real Estate University Featured On California Association Of Realtors Magazine!
California Association of Realtors agents…here is a sneak peek of the upcoming CAR magazine! Lets be clear, this is a (massive) HREU ad on the cover of the CAR Monthly magazine…cool none the less! WARNING: Short Sales…love em or hate em…they are here to stay! Go beyond the basic ‘expert’ short sale designation. Watch the FREE 2012 Agent Short Sale Secrets video and download the FREE Short Sale training guide.NOTICE: Free book guaranteed for the first 100 agents only. Click Here To View More
Fantastic Breaking News: Highest Q1 Pending Home Sale in 5 YEARS! (Video)
Fantastic Breaking News…Highest First Quarter Pending Home Sales in 5 YEARS! THIS is the exact news that the Big Banks have been waiting for….expect a significant INCREASE in REO listings and Short Sale approvals over the next 12 months. Bottom line, this IS the bottom of the 7 year housing crash (thank God!) Here is the full report from our friends at the National Association of Realtors: (CNBC Video follows) Pending home sales increased in March and are well above a year ago, another signal the housing market is recovering, according to the National Association of Realtors(R). The Pending Home [...] Click Here To View More
Bank of America New Short Sale Professional Locator..Congratulations HREU Students!
Congratulations to the 1000s of Harris Real Estate University ASD (Accredited Short Sale Designation) students who have been selected to be included in Bank of America’s new ‘Short Sale Professional’ locator.. If you make the cut, this is the email you be receiving: Welcome to the Bank of America Short Sale Professional Locator You have been selected to be part of the new Bank of America short sale professional locator at bankofamerica.com/agentlocator. This public website helps homeowners connect with local real estate professionals who have previously transacted successful short sales with Bank of America using Equator. Homeowners visiting the website will [...] Click Here To View More
Harris Real Estate University Superstar Interview | Featuring 1800Homehotline.com
HARRIS REAL ESTATE UNIVERSITY Superstar Interview. We have something special for you for this week’s HREU Superstar Interview. (Listen to past HREU Superstar Interviews HERE) One of our all time favorite lead generation tools is a 1-800 lead capture IVR system. This sort of ‘technology’ has been around since the mid 90s and its proven to be one (if not THE) best lead generation tool ever created for agents who are serious about making money. Years ago when Julie and I sold real estate in Ohio we used very similar 1-800 number IVR lead-capture services…we started with ARCH and then [...] Click Here To View More
YES You Can…Buy A Home Immediately After You Short Sale Your Home!
Short Sale Today….Buy Another Home Tomorrow… Here’s how: FHA allows borrowers to be eligible for a new FHA loan even if they just recently sold their principal residence with a short sale. Urgent Short Sale Notice: Must attend Short Sale industry update. New fast close, direct assignment short sales. Learn how to become a Lender Preferred Short Sale Agent. Grab your spot for the FREE Short Sale Industry Update Training Event. Warning: Limited space available for this industry wide event. Register now! Almost every lender will tell you there is a 3 year waiting period as most lenders will not allow this program to be used [...] Click Here To View More
Short Sale Questions Answered | Radical Change To Credit Reporting Following Short Sale
Harris Real Estate University ASD (Accredited Short Sale Designation) students…what follows is a question (and answer) I recently received from an underwater owner. Share this post everywhere. Its critical that folks know the facts about their options. Q. Can I do a short sale even if I am current on my payments and can afford the payments? (If so, can you refer me to one of your Harris Real Estate University ASD agents?) A. The quick answer is Yes (and yes). Can you short sale your home even if you are not late on your mortgage and may be able to [...] Click Here To View More
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