Trent Chapman Chats About Escalation
Short Sale Power Hour is happy to welcome Trent Chapman, Short Sale Genius, back to the episode. Trent has spent lots of time training realtors how to escalate. He offers a form letter on his website, theshortsalegenius.com, to offer people an illustration of how to convey the escalation message to the lender. Essentially, it gives a broad script as to how you can explain that the short sale is better than foreclosure.
Alas, since too many people have merely copied and pasted the document, Matt Vernon may have a problem with it. For folks that don’t know, Matt Vernon is a big shot at Bank of America. So, Trent will be contacting Matt Vernon to chat about the escalation letter.
The inspiration behind the letter is that Trent needs to help agents in knowing how to escalate. When you are addressing someone that is higher up in the lender, you want to make the account as short as possible. We propose that you tell them the following. This is the property. It has been on the market for ‘x’ days. We have a proposal. It’s full market value. Here is the fair market value backed by these comps. Then you offer them the numbers. With a short sale, you will net this much funds and if this forecloses, you will net this much funds. That is the general idea 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.