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Tips for Avoiding Foreclosure

admin | September 15, 2009

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has put out a list of Tips that can help you avoid Foreclosure. However, before following these tips, you will want to determine if this is only going to be a temporary fix, and if keeping your home is worth the consequences that some of these tips may have on you in the future.

Basic Short Sale Q&A

admin | June 2, 2009

What is a Short Sale?
Why would a mortgage lender agree to a Short Sale?
What are the requirements to begin the short sale process?
Will I be responsible to pay taxes on the amount forgiven?
What if I don’t want to sell? Should I try a loan modification?

What Happens to the second mortgage if the first forecloses?

admin | June 1, 2009

When the first lender carries out a foreclosure sale, the second mortgage lender may be able to take the following steps: Deficiency Judgment, civil judgment, bid for the property, charge-off

Don’t mistake a foreclosure with forgiveness of debt.
NRS 40.455 Deficiency Judgment

admin | June 1, 2009

Many people make the mistake in thinking that because their lender foreclosed on their home, that they no longer owe on their debt. This is dangerous misconception. In the state of Nevada (check your state laws) after your lender forecloses, they may file a deficiency judgment against you.

Four Things You Should Know if You’re in Default on your mortgage, or about to be.

admin | June 1, 2009

Everyday more and more Americans are at risk of becoming default on their mortgage, and simply do not know what they can do. You’ve tried contacting your lender via the (800) numbers on your bill to explain that you are not going to be able to make your payments for much longer, and want to know if there is any help. Instead of getting help, you found yourself in an endless loop on their automated system. Eventually (if you’re lucky) you were able to reach a live person who then transferred you to another, who transferred you to another, and so on, while remaining on hold for twenty plus minutes between each person. Finally, the last person you speak with tells you there is nothing they can do, and that you should try back once you’re behind.

here are some things you should know before going down that road.

Under the federal “HOPE Now” program approved in October 2007, you are not eligible for a loan modification until you are 90 days late on every one of your bill

Don’t mistake a foreclosure with forgiveness of debt.

A short sale is when a homeowner sells his house for less then what is owed, and has the difference forgiven.