Short Sale Training and Certification Program for Real Estate Professionals

America’s Home Rescue (2008/2009 NAR Speakers and Panelists) is now offering our trained Agents a Certified Default Resolution Specialist™ (CDRS) Certification, which awards you, the Agent, the unique distinction of being a certified member of a powerful national network of licensed real estate professionals equipped with the most advanced, substantive, nuts-and-bolts pre-foreclosure training and support system in today's challenging real estate market.  As a CDRS™ Certified Member, you will have a distinct and highly-recognized advantage that gives lenders, homeowners, as well as other real estate professionals, the ability to recognize your acquired training and education, and make wise and confident choices to work with you, a CDRS™ Certified Real Estate Professional.  You will be recognized for personally investing in your pre-foreclosure training and you will have the necessary knowledge, tools, and resources required to successfully facilitate pre-foreclosure solutions from a Listing or Buyer's Agent perspective.  Once you become a CDRS™ Member, it is also our goal, at America's Home Rescue, to help you receive the recognition you deserve.  To help maximize your recognition and exposure, we have created the All-New CDRS™ Agent Network, utilizing advanced online geospatial mapping technology.

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Each CDRS™ Member will have their location, personal contact information, and a professional photo (optional) placed on the CDRS™ Agent Network, an online interactive geospatial mapping system for homeowners , lenders, and other real estate professionals to search and find you when they need a CDRS™ Certified Professional.

As America's Home Rescue continues to accelerate its educational and training efforts, expand and fortify our national presence, and make progress in working with government agencies, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD, members of Congress, and many of the national lenders, to rework and streamline the Short Sale process, the direct recipients of a more streamlined loss mitigation process will be the many hundreds of thousands of homeowners across the nation who are currently facing the devastation of foreclosure due to some unfortunate circumstance.  Statistically, a homeowner in distress with their mortgage will do one of three things... do nothing, call their lender, or call a real estate agent.  If they are going to call a real estate agent, our intent is to help that homeowner make a decision to call you, a Certified Default Resolution Specialist™, who is trained and qualified to help them explore their options and facilitate a Short Sale if this is indeed the best pre-foreclosure solution for both the homeowner and their lender.

America's Home Rescue offers three unique levels of CDRS™ Membership, with varying levels of qualification criteria. 

To view more information about each membership level, please click on the corresponding "More Information" icon for your desired membership level below.  If you already know which membership level you want to apply for, simply click on the "Apply NOW!" icon below.

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At America's Home Rescue, we aim to service your Short Sale education needs at whatever level you feel is necessary, from our 3-Hour live and online courses, to our intensive One-Day Workshop, to our all-inclusive Twelve-Month Coaching Program. 

Each course is designed with the residential real estate agent in mind, but we invite brokers, investors, and other colleagues in the profession to join us in discussing this relevant and important topic. 

No matter what stage you are at in the business, however, our Short Sale Instruction Guide must be an essential component to your professional resource library.

The nation is calling for our profession to step up and become more educated in order to provide assistance to homeowners who might be facing the devastation of foreclosure, and you are taking an important first step toward answering that call.

The data shows that foreclosure rates are hovering at an all-time high.  Experts predict these rates will further increase over the coming years.  Why?

• A number of life circumstances—divorce, family tragedy, illness, career change—that have very little to do with the current real estate market can cause a homeowner to unexpectedly fall behind on mortgage payments.
• Furthermore, because many first-time homebuyers have, in recent years, purchased homes that were overvalued, utilizing 100% financing, they have wound up in an especially vulnerable, negative equity situation, making it difficult or even impossible for them to sell their home.

For all these reasons, the demand for pre-foreclosure solutions has risen dramatically over the last several years.  In an effort to avoid accumulating real estate and bad loans on their books, banks have become more and more eager to negotiate down on their payoff, taking what is now better known as a Short Sale.

Short Sales provide an excellent, win-win solution for the distressed homeowner and their bank.  How?

• The homeowner avoids a foreclosure on their record and the bank avoids the time, effort and expense of the foreclosure process.

The tragedy is that so few real estate professionals are educated about the Short Sale process, and homeowners remain unaware that such an option is even available to them.

Our hope is to remedy this by providing substantive, nuts-and-bolts education, as well as the necessary tools, guidance and support to ensure that agents are equipped to properly educate and represent their Sellers through the challenges of the current real estate market.  Collectively, we have both an enormous responsibility, as well as an extraordinary opportunity, to make a powerful and far-reaching impact throughout this country today.  

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