Zanthia Hastings's (zanthia) Blog

Just today I put an offer in on a short sale for one of my buyers and the listing agent informed me that there were multiple offers and wanted my buyer to submit his best and highest.  This struck me as unsual because 1. the bank had not approved the list price as sufficent and 2. why would you t...

The real estate market has been flooded with more foreclosures and short sales than we have ever seen before. Its true that distressed sales only account for a third of properties on the market, but with all the media attention one would expect those numbers to be higher. The media especially exa...

I started closing short sales 8 years ago, long before it became so commonplace.  Over the past 24 months,  I've seen more short sales on the market than ever before.  Mostly due to the rapid decline in property values or some other financial destroying circumstance; homeowners have found themsel...