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HAFA short sale approved and closed with Bank of America in Salem, CT!

Homeowner successfully avoids foreclosure with a HAFA short sale through Bank of America.

A fairly routine Bank of America short sale. This particular client had not made a payment in close to 2 years, and there was not even a lis pendens filed yet.  I find this pretty common when the loan is owned by Bank of America.

We priced the property aggressively, and were able to have a solid offer in the first 2 weeks on market.  A couple minor snags came up - our file got reassigned to a new negotiator after about 6 weeks of working the deal and the old negotiator not being very responsive.  I was told by the new negotiator that " he was no longer with us".  I guess there is a consequence for not doing your job as a short sale negotiator at BOA!  Anyway, our new negotiator was great, and quickly submitted our file for a streamline HAFA approval.  We got the approval letters about 3 weeks after the new negotiator was assigned.  Slight problem when the letters came through though - they did not match our counter offer worksheet.  So we had to go to the closer on the file, do a deal change to match our agreed upon numbers, and get an amended approval letter. This took 3 or 4 days.  Less than a month later, we CLOSED IT!

Here's the details:

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Sale price: $50,000

Closing costs allowed: $16,000

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Net to 1st mortgage with BOA- $34,000

Net to 2nd mortgage with BOA- $8,500 per HAFA guidelines

HAFA relocation assistance to seller: $3,000

Total deficiency forgiven between both BOA loans: $166,000!!!!!!!!!

Time frame list to close: 103 days

 

Patrick

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