What’s a best and final offer? BAFO?
Print This Post If you’ve purchased properties in Prescott when it has been a seller’s market, you probably encountered situations where a multiple counter offer form was used by sellers to get the best price for their homes. Banks’ assets managers use a similar process that is used in the public sector procurement process called the “Best and Final Offer.”
After the initial evaluation of offers, the asset manager may choose to negotiate further with offerors determined to be reasonably qualified to purchase the property. Best and final offers are usually requested when offers submitted are unclear or have minor deficiencies, when additional information is needed in order to make a decision, or when all offers are too low.
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Best and final offers can be evaluated as an adjustment to the scores already awarded by the asset manager, or new evaluation criteria can be established based entirely on the best and final submission.
After receiving best and final offers, the asset manager may conduct additional negotiations with some or all of the offerors. If an offeror does not submit a best and final offer, its immediate previous offer will be considered as its best and final offer.
If you are asked to make a best and final offer in the Prescott AZ area, work with your foreclosure specialist to put an offer together that will win the deal.
See more tips on writing winning offers:
Top 10 tips to win the REO multiple offer game
Want to lose a REO deal? Write the contract in legalese
Why are REO homes priced all over the place?
And from posts nationwide:
How to Get More of Your REO Offers Accepted
Sonoma County REO – To Overbid or not to Overbid
21 Ways to Help Your REO Offer Get Accepted
For more information on how to tackle REO and short sales market in the Prescott area, please contact me. Patrick Schutte, Certified Foreclosure Specialist, 928-710-1717.
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Thanks for your comment, Robert. I think if you read the entirety of my blog you will see that I try to post the current news and views about the market. You are welcome to post your analysis of what the market will do. My readers welcome input from all sides.
Thank you! This is just what I was looking for. Keep up the great work!
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Great blog post. The media will never pick up on this because it is more complicated than a soundbite.
If I may add that with the number of outstanding loans that are scheduled to reset in the next couple of years, decreasing home values and stricter lending guidelines, the rate of foreclosures are on track to peak in 2010. Short sales have become a growing niche for Real Estate Agents to sell homes before they become bank owned.
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1/3 on the market are foreclosed or short sales – wow. It’s nice that you research this information. The agents who represent home sellers prob don’t share that info with buyers. Take care.
Dear Patrick,
Great article! I agree with you. I also would like to add couple more alternatives to those homeowners who want to stay in their homes.
There are two products those aren’t widely knowing and common in the market place. Trsutee Foreclosure Delays and Loan Re-Write.
Did you know that Homeowners are illegally being foreclosed on especially in Trustee States?
In Judicial Foreclosure states, a judge reviews the legality of the foreclosure proceedings to ensure the homeowner is being protected against greedy lenders and yet still the lenders are not properly following the foreclosure laws correctly (see this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/nyregion/31judge.html?_r=2).
In Trustee States, lenders employ a “third party” trustee company to replace the legal function of a judge and orchestrate the foreclosure process. If banks are not legally foreclosing when they know a judge reviews the case what do you think they are doing when they only have to go through a trustee that they pay? And what is more interesting, the trustee company is liable for the foreclosure proceedings but who is going after the trustee companies to review the legality of these foreclosure packages? You guess it! Yes, No one is..!
Did you know that a loan Re-Write program has the ability to reduce homeowner’s current loan balance down to the current market value at prime + 3%?
Here is an example: You owe $500K on your home but it is only worth $350k. Investors will bulk purchase the note from your current lender and re-write it back to you at $350k, saving you (the homeowner) over $150k!
I hope this helps!
To find out more about our services you may want to visit http://ASNDinc.com/
Yamen Elasadi
yamen@ASNDinc.com
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