Press Release: Jonesboro GA Agent to Counsel Real Estate Investors, Provide Wealth-Building Strategies

Jonesboro GA Agent to Counsel Real Estate Investors, Provide Wealth-Building Strategies

Atlanta, Georgia – October 1, 2011 – Elva Branson-Lee of Solid Source Realty GA in Jonesboro, GA has earned the prestigious Certified Investor Agent Specialist™ (CIAS) Designation, having completed extensive training to understand and provide service to the different Georgia real estate investor types -- First-Time Investors, Move-Up Investors, Portfolio Investors, Performance Investors, and Rehab and Resell Investors -- and the investment opportunities, financing options and calculations needed to provide solutions for each.

“For decades, investing in real estate has proven to be a consistent and stable way for individuals to build wealth,” Branson-Lee said. “Georgia Real estate investment supports a number of industries, including construction, retail and professional services, and is a strong way to energize and increase investment in our local economy.”

Over the past 12 months, investment and second-home properties comprised more than $300 billion in sales, representing approximately 27 percent of all U.S. residential real estate transactions. In addition, in market conditions affected by mortgage industry challenges, 48 percent of investors made all-cash purchases.

“Our local markets continue to face the challenges of distressed properties and a difficult economy,” Branson-Lee said. “Real estate investors have the opportunity to help our communities stabilize while making prudent financial investments. Investors provide much needed liquidity to the market, decrease vacancy rates, improve neighborhoods, and present solutions for homeowners who need to sell.”

With the CIAS Designation training, Branson-Lee can now help residents of Henry County, Clayton County, and all of south metro Atlanta build wealth through real estate investment, and help homeowners facing foreclosure find potential buyers for their properties.

Today, millions of homeowners are either delinquent on their mortgages or in the foreclosure process. One potential solution for homeowners in this situation is a short sale, in which the lien holder accepts a sale price of the home that is less than the mortgage amount owed. Increasingly, real estate investors are facilitating this solution.

“When it comes to properties that actually end up in foreclosure,” Branson-Lee added, “up to 30 percent of them can’t close conventionally. Investors are often the only ones who can buy them.”

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