How to Use ForeclosureRadar – Video Tutorials

Learn how to use ForeclosureRadar

Gain market knowledge and position yourself as a foreclosure expert

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Know what is happening in your farm area
• Position yourself as a foreclosure expert
• Give your clients a complete view of the market

Features Covered

• Use Search Foreclosures to monitor foreclosure activity in your farm area
• Use the Map Overview report as an oversized business card
• Create and distribute foreclosure trend charts and reports
• Add foreclosure search to your website using Foreclosure Listing eXchange (FLX)

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Check the foreclosure status of every property you list, sell, or manage

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Save your time and reputation by tacking the foreclosure status of your listings, offers and rentals

Features Covered

• Finding a specific property using Search Foreclosures
• Saving properties to monitor their status over time
• Review property details to understand foreclosure status, lenders, equity and more
• Use Saved Search to monitor properties that are not yet in foreclosure

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Determine impact of nearby foreclosures on subject properties

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Get the listings
• Get sellers price to sell
• Stop chasing the market
• Get buyers off the fence
• Negotiate the best deal for your client
• Get bank offers approved

Features Covered

• Using Search Foreclosures to create a Foreclosure Comps report
• Understanding the Foreclosure Comps report

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Farm for short sales that you can actually list and close

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• find the best short sale opportunities available

Features Covered

• Use Search Foreclosures to identify potential short sale listings
• Using Print, Export and Route to contact homeowners by phone, direct mail or dooRealtor-to-door

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Screen short sales to determine likelihood of success

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Save your time and reputation by avoiding short sales that are unlikely to close

Features Covered

• Find a specific property using Search Foreclosures
• Use Open Loans & Foreclosures to determine who the lenders are
• Review the Short Sale Report to see how easy the lenders are to work with
• Generate a net sheet using Financial Analysis to see just how upside down the lenders are

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Preview upcoming REO listings

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Stay ahead of your competition
• Attract clients

Features Covered

• Use Search Foreclosures to find upcoming REO's
• Use Saved Search to stay up to date on new foreclosures that are soon to be REO

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Identify REO listing opportunities

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Proactively find REO listing opportunities

Features Covered

• Use Daily Auction Schedule, find properties sold to the bank and third parties and identify the lenders that are actually foreclosing
• Beat your competition to the best listings by proactively working with your asset manager

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Partner with auction investors to generate listings and attract buyers

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Find auction investors and partner with them to generate listings and attract buyers

Features Covered

• Use the Daily Auction Schedule to find investors
• Use Search Foreclosures to find investors
• Use Team accounts to work collaboratively with investor clients

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Adding the FLX foreclosure search widget to your website

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Add foreclosure search to your website

Features Covered

• FLX Setup
• Standard FLX Integration
• Advanced FLX Integration

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Responding to leads from your FLX foreclosure search widget

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Add foreclosure search to your website
• Attract buyers
• Convert more of your website traffic to actionable leads

Features Covered

• Foreclosure Listing eXchange (FLX)
• Responding to leads using RadarID email links, or RadarID Quick Search

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Find the right investment opportunities first

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Save time when building your list of target foreclosure investments by using 60+ search criteria

Features Covered

• Search Foreclosures
• Use Saved Search to find new properties that meet your criteria over time
• Manage workflow through the Status and Tags fields

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Quickly screen and rank opportunities to reduce workload

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Avoid time wasted on dead-end deals
• Focus on the opportunities with the best potential Return on Investment

Features Covered

• Identify a list of properties to review using View My Saved Properties
• Quickly review a wide variety of property information and perform a quick financial analysis
• Schedule next steps and rank your interest in the property

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Reduce risk by researching ownership, taxes and liens

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Reduce the risk of hidden costs and legal complications when buying a property at a trustee sale

Features Covered

• Identify a list of properties to research using View My Saved Properties
• Determine past due and outstanding property taxes
• Research title including loan position and outstanding liens
• Gain insight into whether or not the property is owner occupied

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Better evaluate property values, both now and in the future

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Price your property to sell
• Stop chasing the market

Features Covered

• Identify a list of properties to determine value for using View My Saved Properties
• Review our Estimated Value and links to external valuation tools
• See where prices are headed using Foreclosure Comps
• Update Financial Analysis to reflect your determination of value

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Save time by better planning inspections and tracking photos & notes

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Save time by creating an efficient driving route to visit multiple properties
• Increase efficiency by tracking photos and notes on properties

Features Covered

• Identify a list of properties to determine value for using View My Saved Properties
• Create a driving Route to the properties you plan to inspect
• Save Photos and Notes take during field inspections

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Stop manually tracking opening bids, postponements and auction results

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Work more efficiently by tracking up-to-date auction information online.

Features Covered

• See upcoming Auction Sales using Daily Auction Schedule
• See auction results using Daily Auction Schedule
• Alternatively use Search Foreclosures to see auction activity over multiple days

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Quickly access key information while bidding at trustee sale auctions

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Check the current auction status of your target properties for postponements and cancellations
• Check for new opening bids as they get posted
• Have all the information you need to know while bidding at the courthouse

Features Covered

• Use Daily Auction Schedule to prepare a Bid Sheet Report

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Share status, photos, notes, financial analysis and bid amounts

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Work efficiently as a team on foreclosure properties
• Keep everyone on the team informed of the latest developments
• Manage workflow across team members

Features Covered

• Team accounts
• Managing workflow through the Status and Tags fields

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Gain competitive advantage with deeper market knowledge

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Increase your return on investment by focusing on areas and properties with the highest volume and best margins

Features Covered

• Use Analyze Foreclosure Trends to compare various locations
• Use Search Foreclosures to monitor competition and typical discounts at auction

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Work smarter, not harder with ForeclosureRadar. ForeclosureRadar can help you reach constituents in trouble, identify vacant property that presents health and safety risks, and contact the responsible lenders and institutions.

To get started using ForeclosureRadar, choose one of the following options:

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Check the foreclosure status of any property

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Indentify current foreclosure status of a property
• Quickly respond to queries and complaints

Features Covered

• Search Foreclosures by address or APN
• Foreclosure stages and status
• Open Loans & Foreclosures

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Find contact information for both the current owner and the lender

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Quickly determine whether the borrower or the lender now owns the home
• Find contact information for the current owner
• Find contact information for the lender

Features Covered

• Using foreclosure stage to determine current ownership
• Detailed information available, including
• Using Open Loans & Foreclosures to find the servicing lender and the trustee conducting the foreclosure sale
• Viewing Current Owner Name & Address
• Reviewing Transaction History to find the originating lender and the investor

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Identify new foreclosures for field checks, abatement and code enforcement

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Identify properties at each stage of the foreclosure process
• Proactively address blight issues before they affect neighborhoods
• Coordinate field checks and required abatement actions

Features Covered

• Use Search Foreclosures to identify properties in foreclosure
• Use Saved Search to easily identify new foreclosures
• Manage workflow through the Status and Tags fields
• Document a property with photos and notes

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Share foreclosure information, photos, notes, and property status

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Work efficiently as a team on foreclosure properties
• Keep everyone on the team informed of the latest developments
• Manage workflow across team members

Features Covered

• Team accounts
• Manage workflow through the Status and Tags fields
• Share Photos and Notes among team members

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Understand impact of foreclosures on budgets and the community

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Discover foreclosure trends
• Generate foreclosure reports based on over 60 search criteria
• Dive deeper to understand the trends between purchase price, outstanding debt and current value

Features Covered

• Analyze Foreclosure Trends report
• Use Search Foreclosures to generate reports
• Export results to Excel for further analsysis
• Dig deeper into property details to get more insight

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Reach out to homeowners in foreclosure

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Be proactive with community outreach to homeowners in foreclosure

Features Covered

• Search Foreclosures by foreclosure stage
• Print labels
• Export data for use by mailing services, or specialized mailing software
• Use Saved Search to identify new homeowners in foreclosure since your last mailing

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Learn how to use ForeclosureRadar

Perform a basic search

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Easily perform a search of foreclosures in a city or zip code in just two steps

Features Covered

• Using Search Foreclosures to easily do a search by city or zip code
• How to view results and get more details on individual properties

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Perform a more advanced search

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Save time by focusing on properties that meet your exact needs

Features Covered

• Search Foreclosures in multiple cities or zip codes at once
• Focus on specific property types like multi-family or commercial
• And other tips and tricks for using our 60+ search criteria

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Perform a search by location

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Save time by focusing on properties that are in exactly the location you specify

Features Covered

• Using Address search to find properties by address details like street name
• Using Map search to find properties in a particular are of the map
• Find properties within a given Radius of a subject property

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Find a single property

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Check the foreclosure status of a specific property

Features Covered

• Use Search Foreclosures to find a specific property
• Understand foreclosure stage and historical records can effect your search results

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Save and revisit your searches

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Quickly return to a previously run search you forgot to save
• Save your search criteria to run it again anytime in the future
• Quickly view new properties added since you last ran your saved search

Features Covered

• Using My Recent Searches to re-run a recent search
• Using My Saved Searches to re-run a saved search
• Using the Published Since option to see only new results since you last ran your Saved Search

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Track foreclosure auction

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Stay informed on the status of properties before and after trustee sale auctions

Features Covered

• Using Daily Auction Schedule to view the auction schedule for a particular day
• Using Search Foreclosures to view a list of properties scheduled for auction over a range of sale dates

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View details on a property

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• View extensive details on each property in your search results

Features Covered

• How to view more details on a property
• An overview of each of the individual details available in the more details window
• How to customize the more details window to select and arrange the individual details most important to you

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Track and save a specific property

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Save properties of interest to easily find, track and manage them

Features Covered

• Saving Properties
• Using View My Saved Properties to see a list of saved properties
• Using Search Foreclosures with the My Property search criteria to see current foreclosures on your saved properties

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Perform a financial analysis on a property

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Perform financial analysis on a property to determine return on investment, or net proceeds on a sale

Features Covered

• Perform an Auction analysis to determine your bid at auction
• Use the Listing analysis to see whether or not the property is a short sale, and if so just how upside down it is.
• Analyze a Traditional purchase to determine return on investment
• Evaluate the possibility of purchasing the property Subject To the existing loans

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Analyze foreclosure trends in your area

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Analyze foreclosure trends in your area

Features Covered

• Use Analyze Foreclosure Trends to create charts
• Email charts, export chart results to excel or add charts to your website
• Combine charts to create reports
• Branding reports with your office and contact information

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Export contact data to a mailing list

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar to:

• Export search results to create a custom mailing using Microsoft Word

Features Covered

• Use Search Foreclosures to create a list of properties for your mailing
• Export search results to Microsoft Excel
• Use mail merge in Microsoft Word to create custom mailing labels

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Go mobile with ForeclosureRadar's iPhone app

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ForeclosureRadar's iPhone app to

• Search for foreclosures while on the go
• Streamline inspections by entering photos and notes in the field
• Stay on top of bidding with schedules and details right at hand

Features Covered

• Nearby Foreclosure Search
• General Foreclosure Search
• Viewing Foreclosure Details
• Checking the Daily Auction Schedule
• Reviewing Saved Properties
• Adding Photos and Notes in the field

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Stay informed of new foreclosures, status changes and opening bids with alerts

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Alerts and Advanced Alerts to get proactive notification of :

• new foreclosures
• status changes of your saved properties
• new opening bids

Features Covered

• Alerts
• Advanced alerts
• New foreclosure alerts
• Status change alerts
• Opening bid alerts
• Email alerts
• Text message alerts

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Create professional customized mailings and door hangers with RadarPrint

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use RadarPrint to

• Solicit new listings by creating customized and personalized postcards
• Find buyers by creating a door hangar that gives a neighborhood up-to-date information about available properties

Features Covered

• Creating a list of properties in foreclosure
• Creating a list of properties that have recently gone back to the bank
• Exporting data to RadarPrint
• Customizing a postcard with your contact information, branding, and pitch
• Customizing a door hanger with hour contact information and branding

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