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With the housing market still improving at a slow-but-steady pace, some properties are selling short, which can mean different things to home buyers and home owners. Akos Straub and Vince Milito of Chicago Short Sale Negotiators and top PERL producer Dean Vlamis discuss the basics of short sales and some advice on how to make the most out of this current market trend.
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PERL Mortgage Advisor Dean Vlamis was on the CBS-2 evening news discussing historically low interest rates. Enjoy!
PERL is proud to congratulate Dean Vlamis and Barry Schwartz, recently named Top 100 Producers in the country by the Scotsman Guide.
From the Scotsman Guide’s site:
This is the first year Scotsman Guide has ranked the nation’s top-producing mortgage professionals. We knew we wanted the nation’s most-comprehensive list of broker volume — the tightest, most-solid, most-accurate, fail-safe, most intensely verified ranking in the mortgage industry.
The guide ranks loan officers by total dollar volume in 2009, as well as loans closed, FHA volume, purchase volume, refinance volume, and overall volume gain from 2008-2009.
Here’s the complete list of online rankings.
Congrats to Dean and Barry – Your Lenders for Life!
Two of PERL Mortgage’s shining stars were recently featured in the June publication of Chicago Agent Magazine, “The 2009 Powerhouse Issue: Who’s Who in Chicagoland Real Estate”. This story highlights 35 of this year’s most powerful industry members - marketers, lenders, developers, architects, interior designers, associate heads, brokers and agents, all making a name for themselves in Chicagoland real estate in 2009. At a time when success doesn’t come easy, these professionals rise above the rest.
Dean Vlamis
US Top 200 Mortgage Originator
Dean Vlamis emerged onto the scene eight years ago when he walked into PERL Mortgage with no experience and asked for a job. What Vlamis lacked in experience, he made up for in determination. This self-taught businessman is now considered one of the Top 200 Producers in the nation, according to Mortgage Originator Magazine. Through the new Preferred Partner Program, Vlamis leads a team of marketing professionals, agents and loan officers in an effort to help them co-brand their business and target new markets. Vlamis is currently working to maximize the benefits for both his own business and the businesses of his Realtor partners. “We hope this new marketing approach will help expand our business and help our partners in these difficult times,” Vlamis says. “The great reward is that as their business expands, so does ours.” Vlamis enjoys spending time with his wife Neena, their sons Michael and Kosta and their two dogs Neysa and Reese. The family enjoys frequent trips to their home in Long Beach. Ind.
Sandy Marshall
Owner, Marshall Creative
Director of Business Development, PERL Mortgage
Sandy Marshall’s work can be seen on almost every popular form of electronic media. His company, Marshall Creative, is a leading marketing agency in the real estate world, producing everything from podcasts to original Web sites to customized comedic live events. Marshall created and hosts the PERL podcast, and his team also creates and produces viral short films and social networking seminars. “My company’s approach is unique, interactive, experiential and informative,” says Marshall. “We truly help our clients differentiate themselves from the standard real estate companies of the past.” His 13 years in the industry, combined with comedic experience in Schadenfreude and at The Second City, provide Marshall with the knowledge and creativity necessary to run a successful marketing business. In the future, Marshall hopes to use new technologies and social networking tools to his advantage to “help loan officers, real estate agents and developers realize the importance of staying on the cutting edge of marketing.” Visit marshall-creative.com for more information.
PERL Mortgage is an Illinois residential mortgage licensee (MB0004358) and equal housing lender
