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Why you don’t want to buy a short sale

A year ago I started working with a woman, Carolyn, who wanted to buy a house. She was a first time homebuyer and excited to take advantage of the first time homebuyer tax credit. Carolyn fell in love with a house for sale that was a short sale. We learned that there were already other offers […]

Posted in: Foreclosures & Short Sales

My blog content used without permission by Altisource Portfolio Solutions

Last Wednesday I sent an email to Go Homing telling them to stop publishing my blog content and remove all of it from their Go Illinois REO site. Go Homing is an online bidding site for REO (real estate owned) also known as bank owned or foreclosed homes. Go Homing is part of Altisource Portfolio Solutions. I made […]

Posted in: Foreclosures & Short Sales

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