The reason we must sometimes encrypt your email from our office is “NPPI”. “Non-public personal information” about you is just about the most precious commodity we handle. You entrust us with this information to enable us to represent you and protect your interests in suits, closings, and all kinds of legal processes. What kind of…
For those of you that check back on this website and blog periodically to find out whether your forgiven debt from your short sale in 2015 will be taxable or not . . . . the year is 3/4th complete and we still don’t know. As you may recall from 2014 . . . it…
A wise man once said, and many wise real estate investors have repeated it : “You make your money when you buy, not when you sell.” The point is that you don’t want to overspend on an investment or you can forget realizing a profit in this lifetime! Sometimes it makes sense for a buyer…
Among our sustained flow of new short sale clients, we still have surprising instances of absolute misinformation about the process that causes many homeowners to suffer from the paralysis of analysis and delay starting their short sale for far too long. Sources of misinformation are plentiful, and that is before you even get to the…
With so many ads touting the historic lows of mortgage lending interest rates you have to be at least thankful that they have dropped the word: “New” when describing the historic lows. Believe me when I say that we are all thankful (ok, well, maybe some lenders wish the rates were higher) for the historic…
Our firm was recently contacted by a borrower who formerly took advantage of our free consultation on foreclosure prevention cases. The homeowner ultimately decided to allow his home to go into foreclosure and not fight for a short sale or other remedy. I don’t remember all the details why the decision was made to take…
No wonder our legislators and President are suffering such low approval ratings right now – with just 2 days to spare, they have finally re-enacted the Mortgage Debt Forgiveness Relief provisions which keep Short Selling home occupants from facing stiff taxes on phantom income. Unfortunately, 2015 is upon us and once again the collection of…
Southeastern Virginia is blessed to have a relatively high percentage of military homeowners and therefore a higher percentage of homes than in most parts of the country with VA loans and therefore, thanks to the low down payment requirements for VA loans, a higher lingering inventory of “upside down” or “underwater” homes. Military homeowners…
In our blog earlier this month we included legislative contact information so that you could let your Senators and Congressmen know how important you feel it is to extend the taxable income exclusion for forgiven debt on your primary residence. That exclusion was originally part of a tax relief package begun in the Bush era…
Often we get emails like this one on our website: “My home was recently foreclosed on 8/6 during my short sale process. At the time I had 3 offers the last coming more than a week before the sale date of which was not given to me until 2 weeks prior. My realtor insist I…
