When the primary authorizes a short sale they will dictate the terms of authorization. Primaries are not very happy when those terms change. That is, if they take a 200k haircut, they would not be happy at all seeing a second receive 45k and thus would probably not authorize the sale. Thus if the payment to the second is on the HUD the primary would not be happy and could effectively kill the deal when they review the HUD.
NOTE that with short sales, even after your loan has funded the short sale lender reviews the final HUD.
I have seen cases in the past where buyers have made direct payments to second lien holders, outside escrow, in order to get them to release their lien. Again, it was done this way in order to skirt the first. It is not something I advocated but it was what the buyers were told they needed to do to get it done. In many cases the buyers did not do it, but I know of 2 cases where they did do it and it all worked out for them.
This was really dicey.
So here is what my speculation is for this case… note it is pure speculation and based only on what the op has given us.
I think this was an intended middleman flip that went sour. Blue Anchor may have been the original buyer or at least knew who the original buyer was. The original buyer probably had a cash deal for 371k for the primary lien holder. In order to secure that deal Blue Anchor probably stated that no monies would go to the second. In order to get the first deal done, on the day of closing Blue Anchor pays the 371 in cash to the first and then covers some amount to pay off the second. That same day the 450+ from the buyer is funded and pays Blue Anchor back.
Now somehow things went south somewhere. Perhaps the original investor couldn’t come up with the 371k or something like that. This actually could have been a great windfall for the buyer because he could have gotten the home for 371k plus the 45k. I would imagine that the second lien payoff arrangement (not payoff amount) was much less then 45k but of course Blue Anchor wanted a cut.
If you want to make demands about title companies to use and other contingencies then do not participate in a short sale.
