This morning there is a turkey on the grill, brownies in the oven and potatoes bubbling on the stove waiting to meet their masher....we are doing our best to bring a favorite meal to multiple offer presentation tonite for a family we sold a home to a few years ago that has had to short sale their home. We got the house all dressed up and ready to sell from the de-cluttering to the proper pricing...ready, set, list....!
There are those who would say it's JUST a short sale...there is no such thing as JUST a short sale....every listing has to be about THEM...most especially a short sale...when emotions are high...pain both emotional and financial seems as though it will never stop and the nightmare will never end....unemployment, illness, depression, indecision...the seemingly impossible task of deciding how to put your life back together...you can't take it all with you and you don't know where "with you" is....We try to make it easier...we know that grilled turkey is a family favorite...and brownies are among the most loved chocolate things....so we will cater the offer presentation tonite. 
Our obligation as realtors and short sale specialists is to bring our sellers the highest and best offer for a home that they sooo don't want to leave. We listen, we try to comfort and we know that a favorite meal doesn't replace a favorite house....we get it....and we believe that after carefully examining every other possibility and the sellers turning the market inside out on a job search, leaving the area for a job is what they have to do..not what anyone wants, but their position dictates.
What would have been a happy celebration is a bit hollow...it's the best we can do...to help, to comfort, to share tears and help them start over to what we all hope will be a happily ever after in another place.
Sally what a nice way to do even more for your client! You and David must love to cook, eat and make your clients merry!!!
In my next life I think I will do a Down to Earth Diva Cooking Show...look out Martha...here we come !
I haven't had multiple offers since that college fraternity streaking incident... and the only grilled turkey around was me. We got kind of grilled by the dean...
Don't take this the wrong way, but if you present the highest and best offer to a bank on a short sale, you might as well take them to McDonald's and foreclosure on them yourself. If the buyer ever walks because the short sale took too long, if their financing fell through, the market value dropped (or whatever), then what you will have on your hands is an overpriced negotiated short sale which you cannot find another buyer for and it goes into foreclosure.
Hey Jay...turkey was great...
I have no idea what Amiri Property is talking about...the object of a short sale...Or any sale is to get the highest and best offer....and we do...and have closed every one...not been one in foreclosure or McDonald's and we have gotten a CDPE designation..don't have a clue what you mean...and it sound like you do either...
That is the thing about short sales and foreclosures...it is like murder and violence on tv....you hear it on the news everyday, and it becomes: news, news, news, and before you know it, you are hearing another statistic, and forgetting that there was a family that LIVED there, and a few years ago, they were at a closing table, and they were EXCITED to be moving into their new house....How painful that must be now, that they have to leave under these terms....
It's very sad for anyone...harder for us cuz we "knew them when....." They know it's the best thing they can do....and yet....not at all what they want to do if there was a choice but in this case, there is not.
It's such a joy to come over to your blog and read all your posts and leave lots of comments because you two can take even the direst situation and make something out of it for everyone.
You are a cutie patootie....we try to make this as pleasant as we can...and when this couple had dried their tears later this week...called with 3 referrals...the sadness turned into the relief of not going the foreclosure route and being able to move on with their lives...come on over anytime Russ !