Here’s the Expected Content (to be revised per needs and demands):

Legal Documents and Articles or Videos

• Naming your company(ies);
  using "d.b.a." and nominees
• A better Borrower’s
  Authorization to Release Information
• A concise (2-3 page)
  explanation of the A-B-C short sale process to introduce
  it to real estate brokers and help them understand it is
  legal
• Handling Broker’s
  questions and objections about fiduciary duty to A vs. B
• The 10 or more most
  Frequently Asked Questions, with answers
• Taking the Affidavit
  of Understanding seriously and adjusting it for an
  investor-buyer who holds a real estate license
• The Option Addendum to
  the CAR NOD PA form and how to use it
• Which CAR forms do you
  use and not use?
• How the (non-)Listing
  Agent sets up the commission relationship with
  distressed Seller
• How a Listing Agents
  handles the Withdrawal from Listing Agreement, or,
  alternately honors an assignment of rights to the "B"
  investor purchaser. Pros & cons.
• Extra language to add
  to the MLS comments, etc.
• Extra language for the
  B-to-C purchase transaction
• How many hats can you
  safely wear? (Buying agent? Selling agent? Investor?
  Negotiator? Etc.)
• Establishing
  agreements with "finders" or "bird dogs"
• Establishing
  commission agreements, calculations and splits between
  the A-to-B and B-to-C transactions
• Sensitive issues in
  presenting information in the short sale package (esp. a
  "listing agreement" when there technically isn’t one)
• Handling A’s lender’s
  restrictions on transfers (B of A #10 and similar)
• Staying clear of
  Section 1695 Home Equity Purchaser Law
• Staying clear of
  Section 2945 Foreclosure Consultant Law
• Documents when B needs
  to step out to facilitate lender restrictions – and
  still make money
• Understanding legal
  vs. illegal "flipping"
• Understanding debt
  forgiveness income, form 1099 and how to safely explain
  them to sellers without practicing law or other
  liability traps
• Understanding risk of
  deficiency liability and how to safely explain them to
  sellers without practicing law or other liability traps
• Who can legally be
  paid for loss mitigation services? If the banks will pay
  . . .
• Working with
  transactional funding sources
• Documents for finding
  and using private money
• Using non-funded
  closings when, and if, possible, to save funding costs
• Cancelling a
  transaction if the Seller goes postal on you
• Handling transactions
  when the seller might abandon the property and/or move
  away
• Understanding
  California’s licensing of "Private Fiduciaries" and how
  it affects the use of powers of attorney and trusts
• When is a team member
  an independent contractor or an employee for income tax
  purposes?
  

  Practical Business Tips:

  
  

  • Maximizing tax
    deductions in your businesses
  • Does an
    out-of-state (i.e. Nevada) business entity make
    sense for you?
  • Understanding key
    differences between LLC’s, S corporations, and C
    corporations
  • Protecting capital
    gains treatment if you flip properties and hold
    long-term
  • Establishing a
    business image without infringing other’s
  • How doing loan
    modifications, or making loan modification
    referrals, can help or hurt your business. Who can
    legally handle loan mods in California? Who can
    charge an advance fee (plus pending legislation that
    might change the answers).
  • Choosing and
    "training" an escrow office
  • Choosing and
    "training" a title company
  • Finding and
    working with lenders for the C purchase – it’s tough
    out there
  • Cheap and
    practical ways to establish separate identities for
    your entities and "d.b.a"s
  • Cheap and
    practical ways to handle web site and Internet
    issues
  • Creating an
    entrepreneurial mind set. How attitude and thoughts
    determine the height of your business
  • Using the
    Realeflow software service to make your business
    more productive, limit legal liability, and provide
    real time transactional status to your team members
  • How a seller’s
    bankruptcy can hurt or help a short sale.
    Encouraging them to time it right.
    
    

    Current Topics and Alerts;

    
    

    • Lender’s
      tricks and restrictions to deter "flipping"
    • Changing
      issues and requirements from different title
      companies
    • What’s
      happening for real members "in the trenches"
    • Lender demands
      for seller’s notes/contributions to non-recourse
      debts
    • What’s not
      working for C lender seasoning issues?
      Differences for conventional vs. FHA
    • New
      legislation that could affect the business?
      Recommendations for political action.
      
      

      Special benefits and possible advance membership programs or products:

      
      

      • Subcribers receive an additional $25/hr. discount
        from hourly based services with Ballard Law
        Office.
      • General
        documents, such as the concise explanation
        of the process for broker review and the
        FAQ’s (on a pick and choose basis; you don’t
        necessarily pre-answer all objections) can
        be personalized from Ballard Law Office for
        RESI members who also become clients of
        Ballard Law Office.
      • Referral
        to preferred title, escrow, transactional
        funding, and end buyer lenders who
        understand the system, service your area,
        and want your business.
      • Ability to
        participate in test programs for creating
        solutions to seasoning and similar issues
        before they are released.
      • Preferred,
        early access to the FHA and conventional
        seasoning solutions when they are developed.
      • Provide
        master documents as form-fillable PDF
        documents; Realeflow automated forms; and/or
        customized to your business.
      • Assistance
        with creating presentations to brokers, etc.
      • Making
        deals work that inadvertently go to
        foreclosure
      • The
        Ultimate Liability Limiter: A California
        specific booklet (and/or DVD/webcast) that
        explains to Sellers their different choices,
        the option contract A-B-C method, and how
        the investor driven short sales model may
        work best for them. Will contain a sellers
        written acknowledgment to sign for your
        file.
      • Applying
        similar documents and concepts to an REO or
        foreclosure auction-based business