by Angela Kleinertski

REO” stands for “Real Estate Owned” properties. REO properties are known as bank owned residential property, bank REOs, house foreclosures, etc. “REO companies” are businesses that deal exclusively with these investments. Foreclosure has been all over America for the past couple of years.

For the past couple of years, foreclosure has been all over the United States. This trend is expected to continue in the next 2-3 years or even longer. This resulted to Foreclosure Property Investment being an industry.

There are several homes in various stages of foreclosure. As a result, companies that are completely dedicated to the acquisition and resale of REO & bank owned residential property have been springing up all around the United States.

These companies are called REO Asset Management Companies. As foreclosure properties increased in number, most real estate professionals would want to take advantage of bank reo listing.

When the banks supplied these lists, they also provide the selling prices that they would accept for those homes. At the time, making a foreclosure property investment was basically an informal process done on a bank-by-bank, house-by-house basis. However, that changed when foreclosures began to sweep across the US like a tidal wave.

Specialized companies began to sweep the country due to the increasing number of properties that banks and lenders would want to get rid off.

These new “REO companies” deal only with “distressed” real estate, including bank owned residential property, homes in various stages of foreclosure and homes that are in jeopardy of foreclosure. A lot of businesses like to consider themselves as “REO asset management companies”. However, most are not making any money. This is because they lack one or more of the following: experience, strong management, funding/cash flow, relationships with banks and lenders, networks of realtors, contractors and appraisers, etc. However, profitable business companies have all of these attributes and proven business processes.

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