오늘은 금요일, 2 월 13 일입니다. It is supposed to be a day of bad luck, right? Wrong! I was driving down the road this morning in the One Hour Homebuyer Hummer going to get a cup of coffee on the way to work. Just so you know, our H2 is a basically a rolling billboard. The Hummer is completely wrapped in vinyl and advertises the fact that “we buy houses in one hour or less” and that sellers can “sell your house in an hour or less” by selling to us. So I was pulling into the parking lot when a lady in a minivan followed me in and started honking her horn at me and waving her arms wildly. If I didn't have this happen to me at least once a day, I might have found it a bit strange.
I pulled over, stopped the truck and rolled down the window to talk with her. She immediately asked “Do you buy houses?!?” Duh, I thought. Do you think so? I chuckled and asked “What makes you ask that?” She said, “I think the Hummer gave you away!” I said “Yeah, I get that a lot. I can't go anywhere without being people asking me to buy their homes.” We both laughed and then she proceeded to tell me that she had two houses in foreclosure that were set to go to auction very soon. Because our Hummer said “We can buy your house in one hour” she wanted me to go look at her two houses for sale right away. Since they were both on the way to our One Hour Homebuyer office, I agreed to go take a look at them and make her an offer on them both.
Both houses were located in what I call nice, “first time home buyer” or “middle income”, neighborhoods where the houses were all only a few years old and ranged from $150,000 to $220,000. She told me that she and her husband had purchased these two homes as “amateur” real estate investors and quickly learned they had gotten in way over their heads due to the lack of proper training. She said they had paid too much for the homes, they had little or no equity and because they were investment properties with a higher than average interest rate, the mortgage payments were too high to cover with market rent and still cash flow. She had had lots of problems collecting rent from the tenants. One tenant had moved out on their own free will and left the house a looking like disaster. The other was still being occupied by her son who was unemployed and not paying rent. He wasn'ta very good house keeper either.
Other than needing a thorough cleaning and cosmetic updates like paint, carpet and minor repairs, the houses were in relatively good condition. She owed over $200,000 on each and both were many, many months behind on the taxes and mortgage payments. I told her that she owed too much, the payments were too high and the loans were too far behind for us to catch up and take over her mortgage payments. I also told her she owed way too much for us to pay all cash. Because of her upcoming foreclosure, I told her the only thing we could do to prevent foreclosure was to negotiate a short sale with her lenders. She said both lenders had expressed an interest in doing a short sale but that she had not found a buyer to pay off the short sales. I told her “we are that home buyer!” We offered to buy both of her houses based on reaching a mutually agreeable short sale price and closing date with her lenders. We made her no promises since we could not guarantee the bank would accept our offers, but she was ecstatic with the possibilities nevertheless. We put both of her houses under contract in an hour or less each! Not too bad for Friday the 13th and it is not even noon yet!
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