loss mitigation, foreclosed homesThe job market is pretty lean right now, but there are opportunities for people who are trained in loss mitigation. There are quite a few loss mitigation opportunities, especially in housing markets in Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Southern California where there are many foreclosed homes on the market. As loss mitigation specialists, you can learn to negotiate with banks on selling their foreclosed home inventories, and get those assets off their books. If you have any interest in real estate or finance, learning loss mitigation negotiating skills could take you a  long way financially. It's worth the time to learn the techniques so that you can work with the banks on depleting their inventories. A larger percentage of home sales right now are coming from foreclosed homes, so it behooves anyone interested in getting into real estate to look into training. Analysts predict that there will be more foreclosures coming up on the market, so this market segment is not, unfortunately, a flash in the pan. Once the market comes back, you will have a new set of skills that you learned in the toughest of markets that any of us have ever experienced before.