Brandon Brittingham's (moorebrittingham) Blog

2009 ended with total sales down in the Wicomico county area, but not down as much as most people would think. We certainly had better statics than a lot of the major metropolitan areas, and better than the national average. Wicomico county (which generates most of it sales from the Salisbury are...

In today's real estate market foreclosures are a huge part of our market. This is an area of real estate as an agent that can be very hard to get into. Agents who do foreclosures very rarely reveal how to get into getting listings from banks. Well I'm here to tell you that you can start making ex...

Here is some good news!!! If you are an investor or real estate agent, I'm sure you have run into this before. I know as an investor this has held up settlements of my investment "flips" several times, and in some cases has caused me to lose a buyer. HUD has decided to lift the ban for one year. ...

HUD Help on FHA-Backed Short Sales Tuesday, December 22, 2009 Just wanted to let all you fellow agents out there know that HUD can be of great assistance if you need to perform a short sale on an FHA-backed mortgage. I just had a short sale that was denied by Chase, but HUD got it reopened and go...

Owner's Title Insurance a Necessity If you're not telling your clients to get owner's title insurance on purchases-especially foreclosures-you're not doing your job.     In today's market, foreclosures are very prominent-and they come with a lot of potential issues. Owner's title insurance is a o...

What is a short sale? It's likely you've heard the term "short sale" thrown around quite a bit. But what, exactly, is a short sale? With having completed over 200 successful short sales, let me give you so good general information. A short sale is when a bank agrees to accept less than the total ...

Thought this would be interesting for all of you out there, we keep hearing foreclosures are getting better, the numbers say it seems to be getting worse. Now is the time to get into foreclosure!!! Start doing BPO's today(www.thinkreal.com) s Kiplinger: The Rise of Foreclosure Filings infographic...

Loss Mitigation Direct Contacts I've compiled a list of loss mitigation phone numbers. You can get bounced around quite a bit when calling in dealing with short sales. Use this list of direct contacts to save you time and effort! Rest of list to follow in next post.Lender/Servicer Loss Mitigation...

I am traveling constantly teaching and training agents on short sales, and the more an more I hear people say things like "I don't want to doa short sale" or "they take to long" or something negative about short sales along those lines. People say they take to much time and there is no money in t...

 All real estate agents should be aware of a set of new Federal consumer protection rules which went into effect July 30th. Keeping clients up-to-date with the latest, best information is key to closing successful transactions, and keeping happy clients. Kenneth R. Harney wrote a really thorough ...