Trent Chapman Talks Concerning Escalation
Short Sale Power Hour is delighted to welcome Trent Chapman, Short Sale Genius, back to the episode. Trent has spent a lot of time instructing realtors how to escalate. He provides a form letter on his website, theshortsalegenius.com, to provide people an exemplar of how to communicate the escalation idea to the bank. In essence, it gives a broad script as to how you can justify that the short sale is better than foreclosure.
Unfortunately, since too many people have merely copied and pasted the file, Matt Vernon may have a problem with it. For those that do not know, Matt Vernon is a bigwig at Bank of America. So, Trent will be getting in touch with Matt Vernon to chat about the escalation letter.
The plan behind the letter is that Trent wants to aid agents in knowing how to escalate. When you are addressing somebody that is higher up in the bank, you need to make the narrative as short as feasible. We suggest that you tell them the following. This is the house. It has been on the market for 'x' days. We have an offer. It's full market value. Here is the fair market value backed by these comps. Then you provide them the figures. With a short sale, you will earn this much money and if this forecloses, you will earn this much money. That is the gist of the email.
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Fred Weaver is a founding co-owner of Group 46:10. He has been working in the financing/real estate business for over 7 years. Fred began his real estate career by working for a large wholesale bank as a processor and rate/lock specialist for home mortgages. After 2 years in the business, Fred transferred from the banking side of home loans to the mortgage side. While on the mortgage side of financing, Fred gained experience originating mortgages and processing files for Morgan Capital of Arizona, Inc.
Kevin is a founding co-owner of Group 46:10. He began working in the real estate business in 2007 after spending 8 years working in the finance industry for companies such as Bank One, Green Tree Financial, & GE Capital.