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Want to Get Less Money, Waste More Time, Struggle with More Hassle and End Up with Less Satisfaction?  #mistakes

If the answer is no, then keep reading to learn how to avoid the biggest mistakes. Most Downtown home owners are unaware of the down sides of L.A. urban real estate today, which has an alarmingly low success rate.

Downtown L.A. Real Estate’s 73% Failure Rate

Many home sellers don’t know just how often DTLA condos fail to sell as the market has just recently changed to a buyer’s market.  Out of 609 recent Downtown listings, only 173 sold.  That is a meager 28% success rate.

Don’t Be a Statistic.  #loft #failures

Here are the primary obstacles to success — fortunately followed by several tips on how to efficiently overcome them and leap to the greatest success in any Downtown L.A. real estate transaction. First lets be aware of some of the issues that are out of our immediate control, such as the softening real estate market, and the long-term homeless / mental illness problems.  The L.A. Loft Blog has done some very powerful posts about investments that will help to overcome any economy dips.  Most Downtowners are aware of the homeless issues, and how to avoid or benefit from that big dilemma, so we’ll focus on the most serious problems that have the most concrete solutions.

Let’s start with the biggest and most common problems for Downtown home buyers and sellers:  Lawsuits, Litigation and Loft Loans.  More than 25% of listings involve buildings that have currently or recently been part of legal issues that home buyers need to know about. The solution for this problem is for buyers and sellers to each use local neighborhood real estate specialists who have completed transactions in the area, and who are familiar with the problems in each building.  Also the L.A. Loft Blog provides the most comprehensive and complete news and information on problems and solutions pertaining to each individual buildings in Downtown Los Angeles.

More than half of Downtown condo buildings are industrial or commercial loft conversions, now being used as residences, while they are still on the books as commercial or industrial buildings. The problem arises when lenders always initially OK the building. But then, only later, does the underwriting department take a real thorough look at the building to learn that it is totally commercial or partially commercial, and not listed as “residential”.  The lender freaks out and delays or utterly fails to complete the financing after the buyer and seller have spent nearly a month and hundreds or thousands of dollars working on a failed transaction.  The way to prevent that problem is by using a loft lender who has successfully completed mortgage loan financing in the building recently.

In addition to the litigation problems and loft lending issues, other common issues that home sellers run into while trying to sell a loft include: poor communication from agents; insufficient knowledge of building, not enough buyers looking at the unit, receiving no offers, insufficient marketing of property, and overall dissatisfaction with the home selling process.

The good news is that many of these issues can be addressed by using loft specialist listings agents, loft specialist lenders, guaranteed sale program, unique consumer programs and satisfaction guarantees.

Which of these common seller mistakes will you make when you sell your home?

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