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House tries to speed up short sales

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Short sales. These two words strike fear in buyers, agents and title companies. Whenever we receive a contract for a short sale, there is an immediate push to get out the seller HUD-1 to the short sale lender, ASAP! We get calls from everybody...

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Short sale headaches

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It’s bad enough that a short sale can take six months to close. It’s even worse when the short sale payoff lender decides at the last minute to change the terms of its agreement. Can they do this? In short, yes. After all, they are the ones...

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DC title insurance rates decrease

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It seems like prices never go down. Gas prices have gone up, taxes have gone up, the 5-cent bag tax has increased the cost of shopping, etc. And yet, sometimes, if you look closely enough, you can find prices that actually do drop. In this...

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