New Mexico Business Weekly - by Steve Ginsberg Special to NMBW
Deanna Dopslaf can identify with the growing number of homeowners who are facing mortgages they can’t pay. Her own home in Rio Rancho is worth $100,000 less than when she bought it in 2006.
Dopslaf’s own experience in the tumultuous housing market gives her insight and compassion that she applies as president of Southwest Foreclosure Alternatives, a counseling service for under-water home owners. She is also a real estate broker at Coldwell Banker Legacy, specializing in short sales.
Most residential real estate brokers avoid short sales because they take months to close and commissions are far from certain. Yet, Dopslaf has made distress sales and foreclosure counseling her niche in the Albuquerque residential real estate market. She is one of two certified default resolution specialists in New Mexico.
“I enjoy helping the people; I feel a kinship with them because of the situation with my own home. In a moment’s notice, I could be exactly where they are sitting,” Dopslaf, 41, said. “About 70 percent of troubled homeowners wait too long and ignore their circumstances. They are paralyzed by fear, but need to act fast. For those who address it, they have more options, including a short sale.”
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