Foreclosure notices are served on those who have not been able to keep up with their mortgage payments on their home. They are akin to an eviction notice, as the bank is claiming their property.
NOD stands for "Notice of Default".
The first step requires that the bank send a missed-payment notice. Following that, the bank will send a notice of default. The final literature received will be a foreclosure notice. The house will change ownership officially once the original owner receives a notice of foreclosure sale.
Usually after 3 months of not making payments on your mortgage or rent, you will get a foreclosure notice. If you are renting its usually sooner.
A notice of default will be filed with the county. Prior to that you would have to call the lender and check. It may take some time for the notice to get filed.
The house that is already foreclosed is a public record which means that you'll be able to find the foreclosure at the registry of deeds in your jurisdiction.If the foreclosure has not been completed you may find a notice to foreclose in the public records. However, in many cases the notice is all you will find. Lenders often hold back on recording a foreclosure until the property has been sold.
The homes in foreclosure are sold at auction after notice and publication of the date, time and place.
There are multiple steps that a lender must complete in order to initiate foreclosure. These steps include providing the homeowner a notice of default, a notice of acceleration, a notice of sale and finally inclusion in a public auction.
The best way to avoid foreclosure is to prevent the filing of a Notice of Default. Lenders do not want to foreclose but will file a Notice of Default to protect their interests, if necessary.
Be aware that a pre-foreclosure property is not necessarily for sale. The pre-foreclosure stage is the period between the time in which a Notice of Default (in non-judicial foreclosure) or lis pendens (in judicial foreclosure) has been issued to the homeowner and after the property is sold at a foreclosure auction.
Pre-Foreclosure is a term the banks use internally to track the property's status. Essentially, what it means is that the home has already gone into default and a Notice of Default has been recorded. Pre-foreclosure is the time between the NOD filing and the Filing of the Notice of Trustee Sale.
Strictly speaking, you can move out of state at any time after notice of a foreclosure or after the foreclosure sale (or entry for breach of condition in those states not requiring an auction or sale). It would be nice if you gave the keys to the law firm or other foreclosing entity, but it's not required.
Notice of foreclosure as described above must be served on all occupants/owners of the property being foreclosed upon at least four (4) weeks prior to the foreclosure sale. Homestead properties require eight (8) weeks notice before sale.