Image by respres via Flickr As the closing date approached on one of my recent listings in Fairfax, VA, my clients who had moved due to a job-loss informed me that they had not made mortgage payments for the past few months. Now, when I am filling in my listing paperwork there is a section where I have to ask, “Are you current on your Continue Reading
A short-sale success story… another home sold
I managed to get another home sold as a short-sale last week for a buyer client. This one was in Herndon and is a pretty big house, but it was grueling for my clients as information came super-slow from the other side. Honestly, the whole set up stinks because everyone (buyer, seller, agents, inspectors, and even the attorney's) are working at the Continue Reading
Buying a short-sale in Northern Virginia
So you pulled up a listing in the neighborhood that you would kill to live in and it is priced $100,000 below the last sale. "Honey, get the keys cause we are gonna buy that house", you say wildly. What you did not see written into the comments section is this home is a short-sale that needs the lender's approval. Someone in the sale is coming Continue Reading
5395 Abernathy Ct, Fairfax, Virginia – FX6998101
Just Sold! Built just four years ago and in very good condition for a foreclosure. Stanley Martin "Newport" with the sunroom! View Larger Map Continue Reading
Considering buying a foreclosure?
You may not think about it when you see the sweet price on this Fairfax foreclosure. But the people have been living there probably mad as heck and taking it out on the house. So what is the potential problem if they flushed a little extra goop like cement into the sewer lateral? Trouble! And the paperwork the bank is going to send will strip Continue Reading