The Law Offices of Fred J. Scholz

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Broker Short Sale Services

How do you respond when your short seller asks you:

• What liability do I have to my lender now—and how is it changed by a short sale?
• Will my income tax obligations be increased?
• Are my liabilities different if my lender does not cooperate in a short sale and the house is foreclosed?
• What exactly are those "other potential consequences"?

Correct answers to these questions are very important to your clients and you. Sound legal advice empowers your seller. That same sound legal advice helps protect you from a seller inadvertently misunderstanding your role as a listing agent. You could leave your clients to seek advice on their own. They may get good advice; they may not. Why take the risk?

Your clients can talk to an experienced real estate attorney for one flat fee.

1. Your clients get answers to their questions.
2. You can focus on short sale marketing—confident your clients are receiving sound legal advice.

Why use our office?

Your clients will speak directly with our senior attorney Fred J. Scholz.
Mr. Scholz has handled hundreds and hundreds of underwater mortgage files. His practice has been limited to real estate law for over 23 years. He has been a licensed Real Estate Broker for over 30 years and regularly speaks to real estate groups on foreclosure and short sale issues. Indeed, Mr. Scholz put himself through law school selling real estate in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Because of his real estate sales experience, he has a unique understanding of the pressure points of today’s sale transactions.

            • Consultations can be set easily over the web
            • Spouses, or co-owners, can participate remotely by conference call
            • Client documents are reviewed by the attorney before the consultation
            • Brokers/Agents can receive email confirmation that their seller has completed our consultation
               process.

What we do:

Each consultation is tailored to your clients' specific property, loans, and potential liability issues. We provide your clients with all of the following:
• A summary of California law as it applies to your clients' mortgage issues. We will discuss what rights the bank has against your seller and what the bank cannot do...despite any threats made to the contrary.
• We will walk your client through the forecosure/short sale process so they will understand what will happen and why.
• We will provide follow-up response to your clients' additional questions for two months after their consultation.

Please remember...there are far too many overzealous promises of loan "services" and/or modifications floating around today. There is no magic real estate attorney fix. We never promise a lender will offer favorable loan modification terms and we cannot stop a lender from calling regarding past due payments.
What we can do...is arm your clients with knowledge of specifically what their lender can and cannot do. We will also help your clients become comfortable with the foreclosure/short sale process...so they will know what to expect each step of the way.

In short, we read all relevant client documents, review all public record documents, provide your client with a one hour consultation with our Senior Attorney, and then provide follow-up response to additional questions for two months after the initial consultation.

We do all of the above for one flat $595.00 fee.

Your seller has questions.
We provide answers.

Agents: Download a PDF Flyer for your clients here. (If you are having trouble, right click — "Save as...")

*Our office has seen a ten-fold increase in the number of broker-related short-sale dispute inquiries since 2005.