Choosing the right Professional

It is the responsibility of every member of our team at AREA Realty Group to provide YOU with support, communication of accurate information and excellent service. We will discuss your goals and objectives in determining the proper course of action in achieving your desired outcome. If you are investigating selling your home we would be happy to talk with you to discuss your options.

The importance of hiring the right team

• Do not use any company that asks for or charges upfront fees or requires you to pay any money at any time during the transaction or tells you not to speak with the bank.
• You need an experienced short sale agent that does not use 3^rd party services to process or negotiate. Verify the number of successfully closed short sales; you do not need an agent learning at your expense! Look for an agent with an in-house team and a minimum of 50 closed short sales for the necessary knowledge, experience and ability to handle the different circumstances that may arise with your short sale. Once again you need a well developed team experienced in negotiating directly with the lenders and lien holders.
• An agent without the experience in short sales and proper knowledge and support on how to negotiate directly with the banks is unable to protect you from hidden costs, charges, deficiencies, recourse or future legal actions. Additionally this can cost you valuable time and even worse, a foreclosure!
• Make sure the agent you choose has a specialized in-house team working for you throughout the transaction. Too often an inexperienced agent leaves you with unanswered questions, emails, and calls and they are doing the same with your bank.
• Do not use anyone that uses a third party “specialist” or another person to negotiate your short sale. You do not want some so called “specialist” (a minimum wage paper pusher) with no understanding of the short sale process or of your individual circumstances. This only leads to complications, delays and foreclosure! Additionally, these so called specialist charge fees that the banks will not pay. If the agents are not willing to lower his commission the sale will not get completed, the lender will cancel the short sale and the result will be a foreclosure.
• Do not work with an agent that uses investors to submit and negotiate the short sale. They only have THEIR best interest in mind, not yours. The investor wants a rock bottom sales price and the agent wants a double commission and or a re-list on the investors flip. This often leads to a canceled or declined short sale and a foreclosure or a sale leaving you responsible with a deficiency or recourse that becomes a judgment and debt required to be paid in the future.