Santa Monica, CA – Short sale negotiation firm L.A. City Short Sales launches nationwide service to help real estate agents close more deals and save time by handling bank negotiations for them.

Toni Patillo, owner and principal Broker of L.A. City Short Sales and Toni Patillo & Associates in Santa Monica, says that if agents are not doing short sale transactions, they are not doing as much business as they could be these days. The problem is that short sales are much more difficult and time consuming than most agents realize.

While she says that handling distressed properties can be a time killer for most real estate professionals, she has proven ways to achieve a much higher success rate than most agents acting alone.

“Our mission is simple: To close more deals between banks, sellers and buyers while removing the headache of the short sale process for referring agents.”

She says that as a result of her firm’s high success rate, agents who refer short sales to her firm L.A. City Short Sales can still earn a great income. Commission splits are generous and vary from 25% for straight referrals to 50/50 co-listing arrangements depending on the experience and desired involvement of the referring agent.

“We work with a lot of agents who have short sale experience and want some involvement in the transaction, but a large percentage of our affiliate agents simply refer short sale listings to us. We just write them a check when we complete the deal.”

Elizabeth Stein of Team Stein in the Pacific Palisades, one of Patillo’s referring agents, agrees. Stein is a believer, and says that for them, there’s no better way to make a living helping people in the reality of today’s difficult real estate market.

“Referring short sale business to Toni has been very rewarding. When I come across a seller that is behind on payments or even a competing agent that needs assistance, she’s the first person I call to step in and save the day for them.”

As an experienced short sale negotiator and expert co-author of the book “Should I Short Sale My Home,” Patillo has an intimate view of the short sale process from the points of view of the distressed property owner, the listing specialist and the negotiating agent. She says her compassion for the seller’s predicament drives her to get the best deal possible from banks.

“With the poor job market and arguably the worst real estate market in history, homeowners who are behind on their mortgage payments and need to sell their home are in a very vulnerable position. It’s easy for them to be taken advantage of, and our job is to help them avoid that.”

About Toni Patillo

Ms. Patillo is currently the Broker of Record for the Keller Williams Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades Market Centers and is a member of the Beverly Hills Board of Realtors, Southland Regional Association of Realtors, California Association of Realtors, Malibu Association of Realtors, South Bay Association of Realtors, and the National Association of Realtors.

She is also a member of PartnersFirst, a Nationwide Real Estate Network that specializes in Pre-foreclosure. Toni has multiple certifications and designations in Loan Modifications, Pre-Foreclosures, REO’s (Bank-Owned Properties), and Short Sales.

At the KW Market Centers, she oversees the sales production of over 250 sales agents. Toni has consistently achieved the top 3% of all Sales Professionals within both the Prudential and Keller Williams, real estate networks nationally. While her specialty is listing residential housing with a strong focus on distressed properties, including short sales, pre-foreclosures, and bank-owned properties, she’s expanding her mastery into the Luxury Home & Commercial marketplace.

For more information, please contact:

Toni Patillo, CLMS, CSSS, CREOS
L.A. City Short Sales
Toni Patillo & Associates
2701 Ocean Park Blvd, #140
Santa Monica, CA 90405
310-482-2035
http://calltoni.com
http://lacityshortsales.com
http://tonipatillo.com

Nampa, Idaho – As a real estate agent located in Boise’s Treasure Valley with access to the entire Intermountain MLS, Yuri Blanco has a lot of advanced tools at her fingertips for finding Boise homes, foreclosures, short sales, and other local Idaho homes. Now she’s making many of these advanced home search tools available to her website visitors for free with her new real estate search website.

According to Blanco, the new site uses powerful real estate search engine technology along with advanced localization of search results for buyers in the Boise, Nampa, Caldwell, and Treasure Valley market.

“It has never been easier to find Idaho homes than it is now. I wanted to make as much information available as possible to first time homebuyers as well as existing home owners looking to relocate to the Boise area,” she says. “Our clients say they are really finding the site useful.”

She says that the map search is the most prominent feature, but there are many other methods available on the site to search for Idaho real estate, including Idaho foreclosures and Idaho short sales, two of the hottest types of real estate transactions these days.

“Some people prefer the visual interactivity of the map search, because you can see clearly where properties are in relation to other landmarks in Nampa, Caldwell, Boise, and the whole Treasure Valley. Others prefer the advanced home search tool, which makes available many of the search criteria that would normally only be accessible to real estate agents.”

Because of the proprietary search methods, she says, the site provides thousands of different ways for Idaho homebuyers to find the perfect home that matches their family’s lifestyle. She suggests that home buyers spend some time on the site to get familiar with it.

“The more you use the tools, the more you are likely to discover new techniques to find the kinds of properties you are looking for.”

She says the most convenient feature may be the property alert service that’s built into the site. After a user creates an account, property search results as well as individual listings can be saved for later review. Users can also sign up for automatic alerts to let them know when new properties enter the MLS matching their search criteria.

“If you’re in the market for real estate in Boise, Nampa, Caldwell, or anywhere in the Treasure Valley, we definitely recommend trying out the site,” Blanco says. “We believe this is the best way to search for – and find – Idaho homes for sale.”

For more information, see:

http://www.idahohomeshop.com

Yuri Blanco
(208) 899-3352