I love the press.

I just wish it was on a better and happier subject.  Like flowers blooming in the Spring or pennies from heaven.

But the Toledo Blade was kind enough to interview and quote me in their latest real estate article.

And it was on short sales.  Which is when the seller does not have enough money from a real estate sale to pay off the combination of mortgage debt and closing costs when a property sells for market value.

An indicator short sales is the number of homes in “preforeclosure”.   One database that I subscribe to has over 900 houses in Perrysburg listed as being “in distress”.

Now, it’s not a short sale unless you have to sell/move.

Then it might be – and there are options.  Plenty of them.   Hence the CDPE training that I procured for my agents.   It’s specialized training to get Realtors qualified to deal with short sales and distressed sellers.  And it was needed.

But 900 homeowners?  In potential distress in Perrysburg?

Hard to imagine but I believe that number is accurate.

If it is – there will perhaps be many more empty ghost houses – like this one I have on the market:

Because distressed homeowners can become short selling homeowners.

And if they are not successful they can become foreclosed homeowners.

And those houses become “HAUNTED”.  Empty.  Full of expense-causing gremlins that wreck monetary damage and hurt everyone’s neighborhood and the value of everyones house.

I have no answers or solutions (Steve Forbes does – and it’s the best I have read.)

But there is hope for any homeowner.   There are solutions.  There are options.  You just have to know where to look and what to do.