How Can You Max Out Your Chances of Working It Out?
Explain your financial hardship and why it is/was temporary.
If you lost a job, explain why and give details as to why you believe you will be re-employed soon. If your mortgage rate and payment are adjusting, explain that and show that you made your payments on [...]
When foreclosure looms, many homeowners try to sell their homes. For them, the goal is not just to get the home sold, but to do it quickly. Foreclosure rates are the highest in buyer’s markets, when homes take a longer than average time to sell. What’s a homeowner to do? Get aggressive, and get your home [...]
Marketing Your House
Make sure your home is well-marketed on the Internet. This is your real estate agent’s responsibility, but you should make sure that it gets done. More than 80 percent of house hunters start their home search on the Web. So your listing should be on all of the top real estate listing sites like [...]
If you have missed more than three mortgage payments, or your lender has filed a Notice of Default (NOD), you might think the loss of your home is inevitable. Even at this stage, there are five strategies you can use to stop the foreclosure process.
Foreclosure Workout. Up until the time your home is scheduled for auction, [...]
There are many flavors of compromise you can strike with your lender if you are facing foreclosure. One of the toughest to execute is the short sale.
What Is a “Short Sale”? The title “short sale” is somewhat misleading; many assume that “short” means quick, implying a transaction that has a short escrow period. Au contraire. A [...]
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