Short Sales & Foreclosure Resource (SFR)

Designed for real estate professionals at all experience levels, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource certification, or SFR for short, gives you a framework for understanding how to:

• Direct distressed sellers to finance, tax, and legal professionals
• Qualify sellers for short sales
• Develop a short-sale package
• Negotiate with lenders
• Tap into buyer demand
• Safeguard your commission
• Limit risk
• Protect buyers

As many agents can attest, your ability to close short sales and foreclosures depends in part on your confidence in seeing these transactions through. Begin building your confidence today with SFR!

Download the SFR brochure (pdf)

SFR Webinars

Certification Application (pdf)

Links from Dwayne Carte’s class:

US Credit Conditions: Data.newyorkfed.org/creditconditions

HUD: http://www.hud.gov/foreclosure

NAR: www.Realtor.org/foreclosure

Making Home Affordable: www.Makinghomeaffordable.gov

Realty Bid: www.realtybid.com

National Low Income Housing Coalition: www.nlihc.org

Consumer Warning Network/Reduce the Note: http://www.consumerwarningnetwork.com/?s=reduce+the+note

SFR FAQs