J&A HOME: WHY US?: changing how REO is managed

Dedicated to making the REO industry better.

We're continually questioning conventional wisdom to uncover new and better ways to meet the needs of our clients. And that's a critical key to our value: identifying a new and innovative solution before most managers in the industry even knew there was a problem.

Attorney-to-attorney management.

Timeline templates have managed to convince an entire industry that it is possible to manage legal process without actually practicing law. This isn't only a shame, its a critical mistake that we believe has cost servicers, investors, and trustees very tangible returns on their investment.

An attorney possesses unique training, knowledge, and a background in legal process. Retaining an attorney to manage the legal aspects of occupied REO not only provides benefits in the quality of the management services, but it also helps control exposure to various and complex sources of risk. An attorney can make informed and reasoned decisions about how to proceed in a manner designed to best protect a client's interests - particularly when faced with claims involving legal risk, negative PR risk, political realities, etc. - decisions that aren't apparent from simply reading a timeline template.

In this industry, everyone claims to have the best people for the job. Truth is, the best people for managing and performing occupied REO legal work are lawyers - proven attorneys who have the requisite training and experience to understand the law at a level even the most longstanding of non-lawyer asset managers/eviction specialists do not.

It's never easy to challenge industry perceptions, but we've been in this business long enough to have proven our worth to our clients time and time again. Isn't it time lawyering was left to the lawyers?

We're just getting started.

A fresh outlook on the occupied REO lifecycle, the ability to make our clients’ existing staff more productive by letting them focus on what they do best, the training and experience necessary to effectively identify and manage legal risk, and the technology to provide transparent management and control over the occupied REO lifecycle and its costs – we’ve spent the past decade and more developing effective solutions for occupied REO assets, and we don’t intend to keep what we’ve learned to ourselves.

We aren’t just talking with the REO and default industries about what we’ve learned. We’re gaining the attention of investors, guarantors, and insurers – audiences who have a vested interest in obtaining maximum value, not just the lowest cost, from the REO operations they work with.

If you think you know everything there is to know about occupied REO, it’s about time you took another look. We believe we can help just about any REO management organization, whether in-house or outsourced, improve its management practices for occupied REO assets.

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