This is a distress real estate seinar provided to the San Diego Assocaition of Realtors to encourage agents to develop the skills necessary to be a resource and help their clients navigate the distress of this market
1. The Next Housing Boom
Foreclosures | Short Sales | REO | Distressed Sellers
Realtor Rescue for a Distressed Market
2. The Next Housing Boom
Foreclosures | Short Sales | REO | Distressed Sellers
Realtor Rescue for a Distressed Market
3. Who moved the Cheese?
quot;If You Do Not Change, You Can Become Extinctquot;
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4. Don’t get trapped
Become the expert on today’s market.
• Be a Resource
• Gatekeeper to deals
• Tell a memorable story
• Do what other won’t
• Navigate distress
• Solve problems you find
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5. We were not trained for this.
• Tax liability
• Legal process
• Lender negotiations
• Financial analysis
• Credit counseling
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6. Distress is way ahead and is
what’s ahead
March Real Estate Activity
Sold Back to Bank at Auction
Notice of Default
Notices of sale
Homes Sold
12,50050,000
0 25,000
37,500
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7. Half Empty or Half Full?
Your perception
is your reality
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9. Travel in the Fast Lane of Real Estate
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10. Hi Ho – Hi Ho
Back to the Bank they go
Foreclosure Outcome
Sold to 3rd party
Sold to Bank
Cancelled
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11. Put on Your Pain Vision Goggles
Heat seeking solutions uncover market opportunites
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12. You wouldn’t try to sell ice
cubes to Eskimos
• What do buyers want
• What do sellers need
• What don’t they know
• How can you change their lives
• What do you have to sell?
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13. What can and cannot controlyou
control
• Can’t Control • Can Control
– Interest Rates – The flow of information
– Home Prices that helps people
navigate the
– The Economy
immoveable objects
– The Lenders • Their fears
– Decisions of people • The opportunities
outside your • The process
influences
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14. What are your barriers
Brick Wall Partition Paper Wall Mindset
Real and immovable Real but movable. Looks impenetrable Not ‘real’ but really
However I need but can be easily difficult to
some assistance moved. remove.
to move this.
E.g. Processes, E.g. Attitudes and
E.g. Market condition E.g.Lack of
structure, stereotypical
and value, etc. information or
procedures etc views etc.
understanding.
Lack of time,
workload. Lack
of resources etc.
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15. Real Estate Influences
• External • Internal
– Supply and Demand – Income
– Job Growth – Expenses
– Consumer Confidence – Personal Distress
– Interest Rates – Persona Decisions
– Foreclosures – Goals, Hopes, Dreams
– Government – Life changes
Regulations – Passing of time
– Current Events
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16. Target your market
• Distress is a matter of public record
• Pressing need and a definite time frame.
• Deliver a message to meet that need
• Develop skills to meet that need
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17. Where to start on the success cyscle
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18. Real Estate Out of Alignment
• Foreclosure indicates breakdown
• Asset not connected to goals, hopes
dreams
• What opportunity does market create
• Life changes
• Asset does not fit present life
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19. Stir the Pot
• The deals have settled on the bottom
• Seller wait and see and buyer
• Homeowners do not know what they do
not know
• If they did they would do something other
than what they have done
• Real Estate needs have been under-
serviced
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20. Creative Real Estate Strategies
• Best Bidder Auctions
• Lease Options
• Foreclosure Agent
• Short Sales
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21. Who is the most motivated
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22. Guess who has to sell their home in 4 months?
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24. Property Meltdown History
From purchase, listing, foreclosure to sale
Listing
$850-1 mil Foreclosure
Purchase $750k
$883k
Sale
1000000 $600k
750000
Listing
500000
Sale
Loans
250000
0
Dec-06Jan-07Feb-07Mar-07Apr-07May-07Jun-07Jul-07Aug-07 Dec-07
Sept-07Oct-07Nov-07 Jan-08Feb-08Mar-08
Dec-05Jan-06Feb-06Mar-06Apr-06May-06Jun-06 Jul-06Aug-06
Nov-05 Sept-06Oct-06Nov-06
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25. Auction would have made $154,900 more.
Min. Bid
Foreclosure Sold just 4 days
Sale $405k No after the sale
900000 bidders $54,900 over
auction
675000
450000
225000
0
Purchase Loans Foreclosure
2nd Ist Foreclosure back Listing
Taken REO
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26. A Sample of Sales on March 19, 2008
Chula Vista, CA
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27. Life History of a lien
Lender will discount at sale to avoid REO
$500k
$800,000 $375k Listing
Min bid
$640,000
Value
$500k
$480,000
$320,000
$160,000
$0
Purchase Refinance Foreclosure Min Bid
Take back for lien on Markeket REO
Back
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29. Standard of Care
• What should the consumer be able to
expect
• What do they really expect
• What do they get
• How are they being under-served
• How are they being harmed
• Why should we care
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30. Cross Road Decisions
Advice from OZ: Use brains, courage and
heart to get home
• Realtors deal with people at significant
crossroads in their lives
• Foreclosure is one of the biggest, nastiest,
dangerous financial intersection of life.
• Know where you are leading them. It will
change their life
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Editor's Notes
Become the resource with all the answers
Become a conduit with access to all the deals
Tell a story different than the rest of the market. The rest of your peers
Do what others will not do because they are afraid or lazy
Learn how to navigate in distress and solve the problems inherent in it
50% of all homeowners could make a real estate move if they could be given a compelling reason
Thermal imaging records temperature distribution of the body and thus can provide insight in to find pain.
Put on your pain vision gogles and provide heat seeking solutions.
3,120 homes last month in San Diego began foreclosure procces that will likely end with the bank owing the home in as little as 121 days