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Informationen zum Autor Dwan Bent-Twyford, "The Queen of Short Sales," is the country's leading authority on buying pre-foreclosure properties directly from lenders. She also leads popular boot camps for real estate investors. Sharon Restrepo is known as "Short Sale Sharon" and specializes in buying foreclosure and distressed properties. She is the coauthor of numerous real estate home study courses, offers training workshops, and is cofounder of several real estate companies. Klappentext "The ultimate book on short sales! Dwan and Sharon have made it easy for you to profit in today's gold mine of foreclosure opportunities."-Robert Shemin, New York Times bestselling author of How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not?"Having invented new real estate markets for over twenty years, I can strongly recommend Dwan and Sharon's book. This dynamic duo invented the short-sale market-nobodyknows more!"-Frank McKinney, international bestselling author and real estate "artist""As a national speaker and teacher for over twenty-five years, I've never met anyone who knows more about short sales than Dwan and Sharon. I've spoken to hundreds of their students who have earned tremendous profits. You could be their next success story!"-Nick Sidoti, a.k.a. Dr. CashflowMake a fortune in pre-foreclosures with help from the queen of the short saleMillions of distressed homeowners are in danger of foreclosure, but can't sell their homes and walk away because their property is worth less than the mortgage. Banks don't want to foreclose because the process is so expensive and time-consuming. The solution is a short sale-the process by which an investor buys the troubled property from the homeowner at a price far below the outstanding mortgage and the bank takes a write-off. Real estate investor Dwan Bent-Twyford and her students have made millions with short sales-while helping homeowners prevent foreclosure.Finally, here's a single resource that tells you everything you need to know to get into this high-profit game:* Find "underwater" properties and pre-foreclosures* Approach distressed homeowners facing foreclosure* Prepare an offer that helps you and the homeowner* Negotiate with banks and mortgage holders* Earn big profits through wholesaling, rehabbing, or renting Zusammenfassung Readers will learn: what 90% of real estate agents and investors don't know about: the short sale. how to make huge profits from the banks' misfortune. how to help homeowners in foreclosure and get a killer deal yourself, at the same time. how to "buy low" and "sell low" during the crashing foreclosure market. Inhaltsverzeichnis Downloadable Forms ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Chapter 1 Get Motivated, Set Goals, Get Started 1 A Short-Sale Case Study-with a $200,000 Profit 2 Getting Motivated 6 Setting Goals 7 Accomplishing Your Goals 9 This Is a Business, Not a Hobby 10 Dealing with Naysayers 10 Personal Appearance 12 Setting Up Your Office 13 Structuring Your Business 14 Ready to Do Business 16 Chapter 2 What Is a Short-Sale? An Executive Summary of How to Negotiate with the Bank and the Homeowner 19 Why Do I Need to Do a Short-Sale? 20 Why Do Banks Accept Short-Sales? 21 How Much Do You Offer the Bank? 23 Successful Short-Sales Start with the Homeowner 33 Financial Agreement with the Homeowners 33 How Much Should You Pay the Homeowner to Move? 35 Setting the Move-Out Date 36 Chapter 3 Expert Strategies for Finding Distressed Properties and Foreclosures 39 Buying Bank-Owned Properties for Pennies on the Dollar 39 Newspaper Ads 43 "I Buy Houses for Cash" Street Signs 44 Networking 44 Postcards 45 Magnetic Vehicle Signs 45 Bail Bondsmen 46 Pawnshops 46 Mor...