How Home Sellers Avoid the Credit Crunch

The mortgage foreclosure crisis has caused a drop in cities' revenues, a spike in crime, more homelessness and an increase in vacant properties, a survey of elected local officials out today shows.

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More than a fifth of city officials responding said homelessness and the need for temporary and emergency housing increased in the past year.

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"It's having a ripple effect on our budget and city finances," says Riverside Mayor Ronald Loveridge. "Housing industry is not simply building homes. There's less money being spent for new cars. ... That's had a powerful effect on the economy of our region."

In the Beltway area of Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia, property sellers are starting to give up on banks and traditional lenders, opting to sell their properties directly to well financed buyers that can pay in cash.

With the credit crunch, many people are finding that dream house suddenly becoming a ball and chain holding them back from job promotions that require relocation, liquidity as their economic situation changes, or even marriage and divorce. Month after month, their houses sit on the market as potential buyers fail to secure mortgages to buy it.

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In the expensive Washington, DC area, at least one company is coming to the rescue and some sellers are breathing a sigh of relief within days as the checks are handed out to them. Home Sellers Assist asks, "Need to sell your house fast?" and then answers with the Batman action figure that desperate sellers have been needing to hear: "We'll buy it. Fast."

Companies like rel="nofollow" href="ezhomeassist.com">Home Sellers Assist, are not new, but sellers are discovering these investors as a welcome alternative to buyers dependent on bank mortgages. With no need to pay listing and sales commissions to real estate agents, or fees to banks, the sellers are quickly realizing the power of being able to move on with their lives quickly...without the ball and chain.

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