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Now in its third year, REO EXPO is the nation's largest event focused solely on distressed residential real estate management. REO EXPO sets the industry standard for delivering meaningful content, quality speakers and the only award to recognize best in-class performance for REO asset managers – The Pinnacle Awards.

Recognized among real estate professionals as the conference where "business gets done," REO EXPO provides attendees with a unique combination of networking, training and education all rolled into one event. No other real estate industry conference provides as many opportunities to learn from distressed property experts, develop new business contacts, and build on existing ones.

It's time for some honesty about the real estate market.

Make no mistake about it: if you’re a real estate professional, managing and selling homes in this market means understanding distressed real estate. Understanding REO. Understanding short sales. Understanding how to manage rental units. Knowing how to renovate homes and rehabilitate neighborhoods. And, perhaps most importantly, knowing how to work with local communities.

Distressed residential properties remain prevalent in most major local real estate markets, and are likely to increase significantly in 2012 and into 2013. More than 7 million borrowers remain in delinquency or in some state of foreclosure: short sales, deed-in-lieu transactions, and REO resales are the path to housing recovery. But working with these properties requires skills and knowledge that go beyond more traditional retail real estate sales: that's where REO Expo comes in, providing attendees with knowledge, background and the contacts they need to help push our nation closer to a sustainable long-term recovery. In housing, and in the general economy, too.

Sure, working with REO isn't always a glamorous job. But the most important jobs hardly ever are. And it’s exactly this sort of hard work that will ultimately put our nation’s real estate markets on the road to recovery: one neighborhood, one city, one property at a time. We’re proud for REO Expo to be a part of that process.