Brandon Brittingham's (moorebrittingham) Blog

All of you who are performing short sales know that in your short sale package you have to include a sample HUD-1. I'm not sure where all of you fellow agents are currently getting them from; a lot of my agents that I teach and train get a local attorney or title companies to do it. This is no bi...

I know we all constantly run into this on short sales, you get to the point of getting an approval and the bank/investor wants to cut your commission. I hope most of you know that on FHA and Fannie Mae backed mortgages you are to receive a 6% commission no matter what. A servicer, or investor wil...

As real estate agents I think sometimes we can forget what are job is, and can easily become let our costumers turn us into uninformed tour guides. Have you been a tour guide in the past? Have you shown buyers 10, 20, 50 homes, only to get to the end and find that the buyers can't even remember t...

I wanted to share several recent experiences I have had with not only my fellow agents, but also with consumers out there who are involved in short sales. I have come across more than a few companies that claim to be “experts” in short sale negotiations, only to find that not only is the informat...

There has been a lot of controversy recently (and even a CNN news story) about sellers not being fully released when they sell their property through short sale. I think, for the most part, a majority of the information that I have read has been accurate, but there is a major glaring issue that n...

The commercial real estate dilemma Here is an article I came across and thought was interesting, something I have been saying for a while, commercial was the next to feel the recession. I have been seeing commercial deal after commercial deal prices get lower and lower and seen vacancies last lon...

Every newspaper you read and television show you turn on talks about how bad real estate is and how much the market is declining in price, sales etc... Well, to much of everyone's suprise Worcester county Maryland, ended the year up in sales on condos!!! Ocean city which handles the bulk of sales...

Recently, in the middle of teaching a foreclosure seminar, I gave a brief moment to the importance of social media in growing your presence and business as a real estate agent. The response I got from most of the agents was that they simply don’t know where or how to start. I couldn’t believe it;...

I usually don't post my listing on any blogs but these two are such good deals I had too!!! First is a property on 7781 Country Creek Drive in Hebron Maryland. 3100 Sqaure feet for $224,000 I just sold the house next door for $229,000 and it was only 2200 sqaure feet. The property is a short sale...

Was tweeting today about another short sale that I closed and received a 6% commission and got an approval in 30 days (man was I happy) when I came across this article that I think would be of interest to all of my fellow agents on Active Rain if you happen to not catch this: original post was at...