Talk about a Hail Mary
Pass in the closing seconds to save another homeowner from foreclosure. This
was a Wells Fargo serviced / Fannie Mae owner
loan that took us nearly a year and 5 buyers before we closed. We have had no
less than four foreclosure sale dates postponed and I was sure there was no way Fannie Mae was
going to allow number five.
Fannie Mae had
declined our buyer over a minor technicality and we were headed for the sale
date less than two weeks away. With less than a week before the sale date we
secured another buyer but the Wells
Fargo short sale department said it was too late. ARGHHHH! Now
what do we do?
Well to be honest I was
prepping my seller for the bad news when it came to me. Aren’t we the never say
die guys? Aren’t we the ones who supposedly fight until the second the gavel
goes down at the auction? Darned right we are so I got off my butt and went to
work.
We first escalated
through the new Fannie Mae Short Sale escalation site but
were not getting results and responses fast enough so we went back to the old
tried and true method of what I like to refer to as “carpet bombing email”
where we blast as many Fannie Mae short sale employees as we can
until one agrees to look into our case. Now I have to tell you to use caution
when doing this because you will piss off a whole bunch of folks.
With just two days to go
before the foreclosure sale date we were contacted by a Wells
Fargo Short Sale negotiator and submitted our package to them.
They gave us a 10 day extension the afternoon before the sale date. Whew. Now
we had some breathing room.
As it would happen we
ultimately won out and both Wells
Fargo short sales and Fannie Mae Short Sale agreed to the deal. The sale date was cancelled;
we got approval from the second in a matter of days and closed this deal in 14
days. Life is good.
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