Mike Sher's (mikerealtor) Blog

See the information below or just click the link.  This should be a good opportunity for those of you who would like to hear three different professionals who are all working on short sales.  Hope some of you can make it.  If you can come, please come up to me and introduce yourself, like to know...

Experts become experts when others seek their advice.  What does that mean?  Well, it is like the old saying, "if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to witness it, did it really happen?"  The answer is if no one saw it or heard it, then it never happened.  Like that tree, if no one see...

  I was talking to a Birmingham Short Sale Seller who happened to be listed with another Realtor (no one is perfect :) ).  The Seller happened to have read my blog and was calling me for advice.  His/her agent, a well known and accomplished local Realtor, was not as proficient in Short Sale negot...

 Here is a recent article about short sales in USA Today.   http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=108582182695&h=sVpXU&u=n4t8k&ref=nf This article really talks about how hard it is to do a short sale and the importance of having professional working with you who know what they are doing.  Mak...

  As some of you Short Sale Realtors have found, many banks are not as open minded to releasing deficiencies (difference between what is owed and what the lender collects) as they were in the past.  (Countrywide who is now BOA) Bank Of America recently established a zero tolerance towards negotia...

Time for the Friday Roll Call!!!! Let's get positive!! I am dedicating another post just to allow all of us the opportunity to read a positive story or two. I will start!!: 1. Have 3 closings next week. 2. Working on a 5 short sales with offer right now. 3. I taught the short sale class for my as...

Time for the Friday Roll Call!!!! Let's get positive!! I am dedicating another post just to allow all of us the opportunity to read a positive story or two. I will start!!: 1. Received 4 offers this week on my listings . 2. Had an inspection pass on one of my short sales. 3. was asked to speak on...

Sorry for being late!!! Time for the Friday Roll Call!!!! Let's get positive!! I am dedicating another post just to allow all of us the opportunity to read a positive story or two. I will start!!: 1. Got a foreclosure offer accepted. 2. Have two closings on the books for June 3. Sunday, the Detro...

One of the problems we have as short sale Realtors is with Nay-Sayers.   Often the press, other agents and co-worker at the coffee cooler constantly put-down short sales.  They tell people that the bank will never take a short sale, they take to long to close, or that they just don't work.  These...

 I am teaching another short Sale class on June 25th, 9am-12PM Come and check it out. Mike Thriving with Short Sales Foreclosure agents presently control a high percentage of the homes-sold market share: short sales are a way for traditional REALTORS® to capture that business. Short sales allow y...