WTF! Wednesday v8
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So I’ve been doing my short-saling lately in effort to get more short-sales underway.? The more the better, as I don’t think anyone has a 100% success rate with these.? So yesterday, I decided to follow-up with a short-sale prospect from last winter.
This lady back in December was gung-ho about moving forward with the short-sale and then when it came time to sign the contracts she stopped answering my calls.? Then when I finally got in touch with her by about February, she said that she wanted to hold-off because she felt like she was going to get current with her payments.? Since she had gone through cycles of getting behind a few months and catching up, I didn’t doubt her (too much).
So I talked with her yesterday and asked her how everything was going, because I had spontaneously remembered that the bank was scheduled to foreclose in late summer, but I didn’t have the exact date.? When we start talking I ask her how she had been and everything…and asked if she got her house situation taken care of.? She told me that she didn’t and she ended up losing it…she got foreclosed-on about two weeks ago.? She then said, “I should’ve called you“.? This case was unfortunate.? I mean…I used to blow her phone UP…It was obvious that she was screening my calls.? I just imagined her eating a bag of Doritos on the couch with a jug of Kool-Aid…watching Maury…the phone would ring…she leans over and looks at the caller-id…she’d yell to her kids “LET IT RING!”.? I guess you can’t help someone if they don’t want to be helped.
And for the future, if I find someone in that situation again, I should probably add a contract addendum that states the homeowner can nullify the contract if the mortgage is brought current.? That way, I can still get the contract and move forward.? Oh well, I learned from it, and now I know for next time.
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