Trent Chapman Chats Regarding Escalation
Short Sale Power Hour is pleased to welcome Trent Chapman, Short Sale Genius, back to the episode. Trent has spent plenty of time educating realtors how to escalate. He offers a form letter on his website, theshortsalegenius.com, to offer people an example of how to communicate the escalation message to the lender. Basically, it gives a universal script as to how you can clarify that the short sale is better than foreclosure.
Alas, because too many people have just copied and pasted the document, Matt Vernon may have a problem with it. For folks that don’t know, Matt Vernon is a VIP at Bank of America. So, Trent will be getting in touch with Matt Vernon to talk about the escalation letter.
The inspiration behind the letter is that Trent wants to help agents in knowing how to escalate. When you are addressing somebody that is higher up in the lender, you want to make the story as short as feasible. We suggest that you tell them the following. This is the property. 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 offer them the facts. With a short sale, you will obtain this much funds and if this forecloses, you will obtain this much funds. 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.