Investing in Real Estate:Short Sales Are the Wild Wild West

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As a Sacramento Short Sale agent and Broker with Riede Real Estate it’s time that home buyers fully understand Short Sales.

They are the Wild Wild West in Real Estate.  Short Sales are breed unto their own.

Depending on the bank and depending on the agent or Realtor, depends upon how well the Short Sale will go.

If you’ve been living under a rock and don’t know what a Short Sale is be sure to read this article to catch up with the Sacramento Real Estate market.

Let’s get to the point with Short Sales.  As a home buyer when you see the word “CONT.” Stop, look the other way and run to a home or condo for sale that does NOT have the word “cont” next to it.

“Active Short Cont.” is the Wild West way of saying Pending Sale. The homeowner has accepted an offer and that offer has now been sent to the bank for their 45–120 day review!

Some agents will let the bank know they have other offers and other agents will not.

The major point here is that most if not all Short Sales have received many offers that are in back-up position. Just yesterday, a home buyer wanted to place an offer on a Short Sale below the offering price.

I knew this house would go over asking price but thought I would call and talk to the listing agent to find out just how many offers he had. 14 offers were for this house and ALL were over the asking price.

Now, homebuyers do you understand you are hurting yourself if you focus on “Active Short Cont?”  There is no point in seeing a house you will not get so go after the house or condo where you might be the highest offer sent to the bank.  That is the goal…be the sharpest pencil!

This is the Wild Wild West…

Better yet, if you see an traditional sale, beat the door down and get their first!

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