Brian Richards Email & Phone Number

Overland Park, Ks

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Management and disposition of REO properties in a multi-state portfolio up to 250 properties.• Write, prepare and review marketing plans, BPO’s and appraisals.• Assign and manage REO agents/brokers including outsourced vendors.• Submit monthly price reductions and adjust marketing strategy.• Review and approve sales contracts.• Negotiate and approve repairs, bids and offers in maintaining property within company guidelines.• Contract and addendum preparation including title resolution, escrow monitoring and closings.• Review collateral condition and establish asset value. • Negotiate sale with prospective buyers and conclude sales transaction with limited oversight.• Develop a thorough understanding of the business and its functions, processes and operations.• Keep abreast of business and market trends that may affect business department.• Manage the disposition of a portfolio of real estate owned assets while maximizing the return for the investor.• Ensure sale and disposition of assets through strict timeline management.• Ensure timely and accurate reports are received for distribution.• Provide recommendations for procedural changes and improvements as they pertain to the department.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Develop relationship with realtors, title companies and attorneys to ensure quality marketing strategies and timely closings.• Manage real estate agents to ensure all properties are being marketed aggressively.• Obtain updates from agents on property showings, maintenance issues and marketing strategies.• Coordinate with attorney and agents for evictions/lockouts and redemptions.• Correspond with closing agents; prepare closing documents and review HUD.• Strong customer, quality and results oriented with the ability to interact effectively.• Work closely with senior management to meet expectations of managed properties.• Monitor closing process and closers to ensure timely closing of properties.• Market, negotiate and close REO assets within company guidelines.• Knowledge of real estate practices and procedures nationwide.• Understanding of contracts and legal documents: deeds, title reports, settlement documents.• Review and execute sales contracts to ensure compliance with previously negotiated and accepted terms.• Systems file maintenance.• Experienced in managing a very large vendor network vendors of different sizes and functions.• Ability to speak with vendors and agent regarding job specific issues and work to resolve.

Greater Denver Area

• Responsible for the generation, accuracy, distribution and file maintenance of system providing data analytics to support monitor sales and production processes. • Prepared and analyzed reports for the internal collections department on outstanding customer accounts . • Developed and generated reports using original queries, manual data collection or by utilizing established DB2 queries or established report criteria.

Greater Denver Area

• Responsibilities and duties include coordinating and supervising major conversion project over 8 months. • Oversight of special projects: Readds (Lead), Guarantor Reports (Lead), Transfers (Assistant) and Minisales (Assistant). • Duties included supervision of project staff, quality assurance, weekly update reports to management and streamlining process and procedures.• First contact to receive incoming calls from student loan borrowers, lending institutions and schools; assessing problems and offering solutions per federal loan guidelines. • Processed incoming customer correspondence and response through mail text editor. • Designated trainer for all incoming associates.

Bachelor'S Degree, History

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