Thursday, December 31, 2009

Auto reply of a short sale agent

I found this quite amusing:

Thank you for your email. Please be patient and allow me to respond back to your email within 24-48 hours. If your email is received on the weekend, I will reply back on Monday.
*If you are an agent and need showing instructions, please refer to the MLS.
*If you are inquiring about an update on your offer, please remember this is a Short Sale "Subject to lender's approval." This isn't a typical transaction, the lender is reviewing your offer and are taking a huge loss. They are not typically going to accept an offer immediately when in most cases they are being asked to accept $50-200K less than what is owed.
Please advise your buyers that this process can take 4 weeks and even up to 4 months (depending on the client's and lender's motivation to proceed.)
If you have submitted an offer on a property, an update will be given at least every Friday.
Thank you again for your patience.