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At the USHUD cooperative we get calls every day from people that need help and new business. What goes wrong is reviewed here and what goes right is also covered in another post. The first thing that goes wrong is real estate professionals are not tech or marketing wizards, and they shouldn’t have to be. Real estate professionals are professionals in their industry and that …

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro recently announced HUD is allocating more $1.8 billion to public housing authorities in all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to make needed capital improvements in their properties. The grants are provided through HUD’s Capital Fund Program, which offers annual funding to approximately 3,100 …

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You’ve spent months and months helping your client look for their dream home. Finally, the papers are signed and the keys in their hand. Your job is complete—so what happens next? It’s easy to become consumed by the next buyer or seller, however, it’s equally important to maintain relationships with former clients. After all, a happy client will likely use your service again and is …

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Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage lender, filed suit Friday in Federal District Court against the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The company was left with no alternative but to take this action after the DOJ demanded Quicken Loans make public admissions that were blatantly false, as well as pay an inexplicable …

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The easiest listings to get are from people who have to move. People that have to move fall into several different categories. Relocating Found a house they want Financial hardship Vacant homes Finding a House They Want When people start the process of selling a home the first thing they do is to look at other homes to determine if there is anything that they …

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Doing the best for the market does not always mean achieving the best and highest price for a home. Sometimes it means getting the home off of the market and this helps the entire community. Home prices are based on the other homes in the market. For this reason a vacant home can have a dramatically negative effect on the rest of the neighborhood. Focusing …

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We have all seen them. The houses that look like if they had a knife they would attack us. The houses that children’s nightmares are made of. These homes are not always a bad thing, especially if we know how to use a FHA 203k mortgage. A 203k mortgage is generally available for a home that requires more than $5000 or more in order to …

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As people can access a complete list of foreclosures from either their desk top or mobile devices using USHUD.com and we have had thousands of downloads from our app on both the major app stores we have been able to assist countless people get a list of foreclosures that are both accurate and free. We are happy to find that people using USHUD.com are connecting …

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Like every other third party mortgage investor on the planet, Fannie Mae has had a rough time lately. When Wall Street finally stopped buying sub-prime loans Fannie Mae found themselves holding millions of un-sellable mortgages…essentially holding the bag. Was it greed that created this situation? That is too easy of an answer. The truth is the system was set up for people who are responsible …

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When is the Real Estate Market going to turn around? Some experts say that the housing market will not turn around until late in 2011. One thing for sure is that there is a lot of profit to be made in foreclosures. Either buying foreclosures to hold (which I have done many times) , selling foreclosures as a professional (the commission is often double, I did this thousands of times) …

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