Satar Naghshineh's (satarnag) Blog

  Don't Pee in The Activerain Sand Box!   I love ActiveRain. It's a great community to learn, debate topics, build relationships and generate business. Because of ActiveRain, I have become a better short sale broker through the knowledge and experience of others in my line of work. Because of the...

You Just Got A Short Sale Listing...Do you spend time and money to market it?   Sally & David Hanson wrote a great blog about short sale marketing. You can read it by clicking here!   Very interesting blog about marketing your short sale listing. Obviously, Sally and David Hanson made very good p...

                      VICTORY IS MINE!!!   A few days ago, I came across some bad information on Active Rain and on the web. The subject matter was about short sales (something I love to talk about and do). The bad information that was circulating was stating that agents could not short sale thei...

There's some bad information going out in Active Rain stating that a licensed real estate agent cannot short sale their own home! This Blog post is to let agents know that they can negotiate the short sale and should do so if they have the knowledge and experience to do so. Questions and concerns...

I've been working the Irvine short sale market for three and a half years. I have been noticing that the negative option ARM short sales are drying up or being offered loan modifications. Therefore Irvine has seen fewer short sales than the last three years. The new short sales are the result of ...

An interesting report was released by the FBI on the rise of Mortgage Fraud and the types of fraud used. I urge everyone to read the report as it produces some great information. Unfortunately, I cannot copy and paste the entire article so I urge everyone to read and UNDERSTAND it:   http://www.f...

       I spent some time researching short sale packages and the latest trends coming from the lenders. For example, we were told on BofA short sales in second position HELOCs not to submit the purchase offer. Well, I came across a couple of blog posts and comments in which I saw one number of p...

From the horse's mouth: http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/state&id=6864031&rss=rss-kfsn-article-6864031  

So I come across this blog by an agent on Active rain. It has a picture of a monkey with a title along the lines of Ignoring the seller so you can sleep better at night. The blog then mentions that it is sometimes ethical to ignore a seller when they want to list the property at a high listing pr...

With all due respect, I disagree with this blog on Highest and Best offer on short sales. It is of my belief that your offer to the bank should be from a well qualified buyer (heavy down payment, great credit, low debt to income ratio, etc.) and below the lowest comps even when they initially co...