Like many real estate professionals, Benchmark Realtys Shelia Lunsford sets herself apart from the crowd with a specialty.

When she started out almost 10 years ago as a buyers agent in Murfreesboro, she was with another agency that happened to be handling several short sales. As a result Lunsford became immersed in these types of [...]

According to foreclosure-tracking firm RealtyTrac, in September, the number of foreclosure filings nationwide fell 7 percent from the month prior, and fell 16 percent from September 2011.