In an effort to stem the foreclosure tide, Foreclosure.com and LoanResolve.com have joined forces to help connect distressed homeowners with potential buyers, working direct with their lenders to negotiate reduced purchase prices that will appeal to homebuyers and investors.

It’s a process that is often referred to as a “short sale;” however, LoanResolve and Foreclosure.com will simplify and shorten what is often a complicated and lengthy process.

Here are some thoughts from Foreclosure.com Founder, President and CEO, Brad Geisen, on the exciting new partnership:

“Between both companies we have relationships with most if not all of the major lenders today. We can work with them and the homeowners to reach favorable solutions that help reduce foreclosure situations, provide relief for distressed homeowners and create deals for future homeowners.”

According to Geisen, it’s an all around win-win situation for everyone involved because literally no one usually wins in a property foreclosure.

LoanResolve, which has designed a state–of-the-art foreclosure resolution and loan modification engine, helps distressed homeowners avoid foreclosures by working within their lenders’ loan resolution, loan modification and short sale processing services to quickly implement solutions that ensure compliance with lender requirements.

In fact, LoanResolve offers borrowers an online tool that helps them proactively research ways to resolve a delinquent or potentially delinquent loan with their lenders. As a last resort the company provides an online tool to quickly process property sale transactions.

Based on information borrowers provide concerning their loans and their lenders available resolution options, LoanResolve assists the borrower and lender in coordinating rapid approvals toward resolutions.

Once this rapid process is complete, Foreclosure.com will then list those properties on its Web site and drive traffic to them –- more than five million interested buyers each month. In addition, Foreclosure.com will provide visitors with the opportunity to make offers and contact the listing brokers for more information on the featured listings.

Here’s LoanResolve President, Jim McArthur:

“The flexibility and compliance expertise that LoanResolve offers with its document solutions is the right fit for Foreclosure.com’s short sale property liquidation needs. We work closely with both the lender and borrower in developing and executing solutions lenders can quickly implement.”

For more information and to learn more about how to either search these short sale listings or to have your home listed among them just click here.

Develop the critical negotiating skills necessary for successful real estate short sale investing with expert instruction from Sharon Restrepo during this special 90-minute online educational training course.

“Short Sale Negotiation” is scheduled for Tuesday, May 13 at 4 p.m. ET. To catch the LIVE “how to” instructional session CLICK HERE.

From contract to closing, the short sale process can seem overwhelming when it’s really not. In fact, the right attitude and approach can turn a potentially frustrating experience into a goldmine.

Register for this training experience now if you want to:

• Learn how to market for short sales
• Understand the “Why” behind a seller’s motivation to short sale
• Know what to say to a seller about a short sale
• Determine what makes a deal worth doing a short sale
• Learn how to work with the seller throughout the process

Sharon is a cunning negotiator with tremendous people skills. She’s going to reveal everything you need to know about successful short sale negotiations, including what to say to the seller at each stage of the process.

It’s a compelling script that can get you on the path to real estate riches!

Register for “Short Sale Negotiation” now and negotiate BIG money-making short sales!!! CLICK HERE … class sizes are limited.

Please note that this is the second of three short sale training presentations that Sharon will lead. To check out the other two parts of this specific topic and more click here.

Webinars are LIVE educational sessions that let participants see, hear and interact with real estate experts right from their personal computer screens. In fact, Webinars are driven in part by visitor feedback and questions that are posed during the sessions. For more information and course offerings click here.

Find out all the essential information you need to begin making money with short sales from successful real estate investor, Sharon Restrepo, during this LIVE 90-minute online educational training session.

“What is a Short Sale?” is set for Tuesday, April 15 at 4 p.m. ET.

From the definition of a short sale to how to select the right deals, this introductory course will walk you through one of the hottest investment techniques today step-by-step.

Sharon — who is also a nationally-acclaimed educator and cunning negotiator — will explain the reasons lenders and banks are willing to accept short sale offers at rock-bottom prices now more than ever.

Sharon will teach you how to:

• Understand the short sale
• Understand the short sale process
• Understand why banks accept short sales
• Understand when short sales will work
• Learn how to choose the right short sale deals

This online real estate course, which is one of a three-part series, will help you better understand the real estate short sale process from A to Z thanks to the latest investment strategies.

Put simply, there’s no reason to pay full price for a home when you don’t have to!

To register now CLICK HERE.

Webinars are LIVE educational sessions that let participants see, hear and interact with real estate experts right from their personal computer screens. In fact, Webinars are driven in part by visitor feedback and questions that are posed during the sessions. For more information and course offerings click here.

Join us for a LIVE online presentation tomorrow (January 29) at 4 p.m. ET. when we reveal how to create instant equity with short sales and explain the reasons lenders will work with YOU to close these great deals!

“Short Sales: Create Equity from Nothing!” is a LIVE 90-minute educational Webinar training session that teaches you how to purchase properties in foreclosure for less than what the sellers currently owe their lenders.

It’s possible to score some major wallet-busting deals, especially now with more and more homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages.

To reserve a spot now CLICK HERE. Spots are limited.This upcoming Webinar special will teach you:

• Why lenders short sale
• Why homeowners cooperate
• Step-by-step short sale instructions
• How investors can take advantage of the opportunities in this market to make big money in short sales
• Get all the forms you need for a short sale

Short sales are a relatively unfamiliar (yet extremely lucrative) real estate investment technique. And Sharon Restrepo — a successful foreclosure investor with more than 15 years experience and a nationally-acclaimed educator — will provide easy-to-understand instructions on how to capitalize on them in this special presentation.

From afar, negotiating a short sale seems like a tricky process. But as you’ll find out, there’s really nothing to it!

Of course, we will also open the floor up to you during an interactive question and answer session. Again, to reserve a spot now CLICK HERE. And if the timing is bad and you can’t make the LIVE presentation tomorrow please remember that we will email you the recorded version as soon as possible!

Webinars are LIVE 90-minute educational sessions that let participants see, hear and interact with real estate experts right from their personal computer screens. In fact, Webinars are driven in part by visitor feedback and questions that are posed during the sessions. For more information and course offerings click here.

This will take place TOMORROW (Tuesday) on October 23 at 9 p.m. ET. To reserve a spot now before it’s too late CLICK HERE.

Want to control properties without paying the mortgages on them? Sound too good to be true?

It’s not.

Jim will teach you how to use the telephone, computer and fax machine to conduct a profitable real estate business right from your home.

In this upcoming Webinar special you will also:

• Learn five different money-making lease option strategies that work
• Understand the anatomy of a lease option from soup to nuts
• Find lease option deals on Foreclosure.com fast and easy
• Learn how to negotiate with buyers, sellers and lenders
• Receive important paperwork and forms (worth more than $250) FREE for attending the Webinar

Catch this must-see LIVE event! Click here to attend (Spots are limited)

Remember: We will also open the floor up to you during an interactive question and answer session.

There are some helpful tips today in the Orange County Register for homeowners who are searching for ways to catch up on their mortgage payments and to avoid foreclosure.

Here’s the quick list:

• Talk to your lender as soon as possible
• Get financial counseling
• Consider selling before foreclosure is final

The overriding theme of the article, which was written with the help of industry experts, is to act fast.

We couldn’t agree more — the quicker a distressed homeowner reaches out for assistance, the more options he or she will have from which to choose.

And, if for some reason a resolution cannot be agreed upon to save the home, at least these homeowners will have more time to put their properties on the market with the hopes that buyers come along to bail them out.

Filing for bankruptcy is the absolute last option, as well as one of the worst.

Consider this:

“Filing for bankruptcy isn’t a good option. Bankruptcy will not only ruin your credit but, depending on whether you file Chapter 7 or Chapter 11, the lender may still be able to foreclose or the court may order the sale of your home.”

The article also touches on a non-conventional strategy called the short sale. Essentially, this means that the house is sold for less than the actual loan amount.

However, the lender must agree to the terms of the price beforehand and be willing to accept the discounted offer.

Lenders sometimes do this to keep foreclosures off their books and to ensure that more money is not lost while the home is wasting away on the market.

In short, when it comes to foreclosure there’s no silver bullet solution that cures all situations. Fortunately, there are programs, services and options available that help distressed homeowners keep the keys to their front doors.

Therefore, always remember that it is often a race against the clock — give yourself the time you need to arrive at the resolution that best fits your needs.