Foreclosure

Usually a foreclosure will lower a person's credit score by 250 points, and sometimes by as many as 280 points. The foreclosure stays on a person's credit report for seven years.

You can put a house up for sale in foreclosure, but the foreclosure process could happen before the house sells. It doesn't make any sense, if you would like to sell the house, do so before foreclosure.

A charge off just means a bank has considered a bad debt. They still have the right to collect on it. Now it is tough for a second mortgage company or bank to foreclose, reason being that there are in second position. They can start but if foreclosure is followed through with. The first mortgage is paid first and they get what is left over. Remember the house has to be sold etc. Many times they will sell your debt of to a less scrupilous collector. If they do start contact your first mortgage lender immediately. They may have options. Hope this helps.

For as long as the foreclosure process is going on, the original owners of the property will still have legal possession. This makes them responsible for maintaining the property, paying the real estate taxes, and keeping insurance paid up to date in case of damage or destruction. Since they still own the house, they must keep on top of all of the responsibilities of maintaining the property in good condition.

Of course, it is especially important for homeowners to keep up on the maintenance if they are eventually successful in finding a solution to stop foreclosure. Letting a home fall into disrepair and then saving the home but having to clean up afterwards is not a good start to financial recovery. Even if it is just a second home or investment property, homes in foreclosure should be kept in as good of condition as possible.

For homeowners who are unable to avoid losing the property, though, they will no longer be responsible for maintaining it when ownership is transferred through the foreclosure legal process. This typically happens once the sheriff sale has been conducted and the winning bid confirmed by the local court system. At this point, the foreclosure victims will no longer have title to the home, and it will be up to the new owner (usually the bank) to make sure the property is kept up.

A housing foreclosures usually means the owner of a home has defaulted on their mortgage or has gotten seriously behind and are unable to negotiate or workout a solution with the financiers (bank or lender). In this case the bank or lender may take legal action to repossess the home and sell it. All of this takes a lot of time (6 months to a year) and must be done through the local courts. If the owner cannot work something out with lender they will be required to surrender the property and move out or face eviction. It's a painful and humiliating process. Hope this helps.

This depends on the investor your lender uses. I have done several loans this month for clients with new jobs. A good lender will most likely be able to help you out.

There are several possibilities.

1) The lender may continue to pursue the borrower for the money after foreclosure.

2) The lender may just write off the loss.

3) depending on the mortgage insurance situation, the insurance company may contribute.

In the United States, you will need to wait three years after a short sale in order to buy another house. This is per the Federal Housing Administration.

The prescribed interest rate is set every quarter based on the federal interest rate. A prescribed loan would be the one that would carry the prescribed federal interest rate. The person applying for the loan could have the attribution rules waived.

You will need to do everything that is involved with starting a normal business. (ie. business license, insurance) There is a good website I found that teaches how to start a foreclosure cleaning business, they have training guides, marketing guides, and bank contacts. It will teach you how to get the foreclosure cleaning contracts from the banks and reo agents plus they give you the direct bank contacts. Here's there website: http://www.listbankrepos.com Banks call your type of business, a Property Preservation Business, I would highly recommend joining the #1 Property Preservation Directory, you will also get alot of business from there, we do, http://www.propertypreservationdirectory.com Good luck with you new business!

Depending on what state you are in they will work with you for a series of months to get things on track for you. Ultimately, foreclosure is the bank realizing that they will no longer be able to get funds from you. If you are still in the early days of not being able to pay you should see if the bank will take a short sale. This allows the bank to take a price of the house that will close the gap of what you owe. For instance, if you owe $200,000 and can only sell it for $180,000; you only owe the $20,000 difference which is light years ahead of $200,000. If you have any more questions about the process please contact girlstripe3@hotmail.com.

It is not the homeowners themselves who file foreclosure on a house, nor do they decide when to file the paperwork, nor do they decide how it will be pursued in the local court system. All of these aspects are determined by the lenders and creditors who have liens on the house to begin with. To begin foreclosure, all the homeowner has to do is stop paying the mortgage, whether this is the first mortgage, second mortgage, home equity line of credit, or other lien on the house.

So, if homeowners stop sending in the monthly payment to the first mortgage, after a period of time (typically 3-6 months in a row of missed payments), the lender will automatically begin the foreclosure process. It will hire local attorneys to initiate the lawsuit and have the paperwork served on the homeowners. The actual owners themselves do not have to do anything besides miss their mortgage payments -- the mortgage company will begin the foreclosure process with or without any further input from the borrowers.

The same works if the homeowners stop paying their second mortgage or any other junior liens. Even if they keep up on the first mortgage payments, the second lien holder will eventually sue the owners for foreclosure and attempt to have the house auctioned off. There may be little chance that the second mortgage company will receive much from the sheriff sale of a house, since properties typically sell for not even enough to pay off the first lien, but the lender will not wait forever for the owners to get back on track. Eventually, it will be better to take the loss, write off the loan, and take any write-offs that are available.

In the case of homeowners who stop paying on both or all mortgages at once, it is usually the first mortgage that will file for foreclosure first. If the homeowners do not find a solution to stop foreclosure, then it is likely that the junior lien holders will simply let the house go and write off their loans. In most instances, the sheriff sale will not generate enough proceeds to pay off the first mortgage in full, and other liens will not be paid off at all. There may be a small chance of being sued afterwards for a deficiency judgment, but this is a somewhat remote possibility.

I'm pretty sure you have to hold the title or hold the mortgage on a property to be the owner, which would be individual for each home. The only entities who can take your home or property (as far as I know) are the gov't (rights-of-way, easements, fed loans)and mortgage holders, who would be paid according to their place in the mortgage hierarcy (1st, 2nd etc) and then there are mechanic's liens (monetary holds placed on properties by contractors who didn't get paid). As long as you keep current on the other property, I don't see a problem. But I am not a realtor: I have just been run over the coals a few times.

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Time is not the real solution to improving credit, although it does make some of the issues go away. To do this, obtain a full copy of your credit report. From there, look at your accounts and your payment history. Make sure that from now on you make payments on time, with no lates. Pay down all accounts so that you are not using all the money available to you to borrow. If you have good, paid accounts, do not close them: you need at least four of these. Make sure that you also pay housing and utilities on time.

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Hate to tell you, but in my state (WA), if a senior deed of trust or mortgage is foreclosed, then the inferior/junior mortgages and/or deeds of trust are foreclosed as well. That means that you have no recourse subsequent to a foreclosure. I suggest seeing an attorney immediately (see the phone book for one who gives "free consultations").

In almost every state, the answer is "NO".

The answer to this question can be complicated and I recommend that you check out your State laws.

I am also making the assumption that when you say "co signer" you mean cosigned on the mortgage and not some other obligation.

It is important to understand how your title is currently recorded. Are you both on title?

As far as a lender is concerned, the answer is NO. If the person is a cosigner on your mortgage they would have to remove you from having any obligation on the loan. This can be done by the current co borrower refinancing the home. This of course requires your cooperation and willingness.

You can both agree to sell the home. That would be an acceptable way to free the co signer from the obligation.

The co signer "could" file suit in court and have a court compel you cooperate. If this is your primary residence, then most courts would require some significant justification for forcing you out.

I have seen this happen in cases of divorce, failure to make the monthly payments, and once when a borrower was destroying the home.

If the co signer has just "changed their mind about co signing or they are mad at you and want to use this as revenge, then they most likely have an uphill battle ahead of them.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you are being asked to prepare a Hardship Letter to get your Loan Modified or Restructured.

To make you understand better, Loan Modification, which can also be termed Restructuring of loans is designed to make a permanent change to your Note on one or more of your loans, which will result in a payment that you can afford.

Get a lawyer-assisted loan modification company to handle your loan modification. They will charge you an upfront fee, but the end result will be a maximum benefit to you. A good company will get you into a 30 Yr, Fixed Rate loan...not another ARM and if someone tells you that you need to stop paying your mortgage in order to qualify...that is not right. We can get your loans lodified even if you are not late as long as you have a valid hardship...that is why the hardship letter is required.

Banks can not garnish a homeowner's wages during the foreclosure process. This is because the real estate is collateral for the loan.

Thus, the bank will have to take the property all the way through the foreclosure and have it sold at a county sheriff sale. This is the legal mechanism by which the bank is allowed to attempt to recover the amount it is owed on the loan. If the sheriff sale pays off the mortgage in full, there is nothing further to collect.

If the property does not sell for enough to pay the loan off completely, some states allow mortgage companies to sue for a deficiency judgment after the foreclosure. Again, not all states allow this under the foreclosure laws, but it would give banks the right to garnish wages after the foreclosure, if they decide to sue for the judgment.

Banks rarely, if ever, sue former clients for deficiency judgments, though, because they know foreclosure victims do not have a lot of extra cash to pay down another judgment after losing their homes. It would take the bank too much time and money to sue again, when they didn't collect very much on their original foreclosure lawsuit.

If you are being foreclosed on you likely have a lot of things on your mind. One of those things is to know how much time you have from the time you are foreclosed on until you need to be out. In Missouri that time is 80 days.

Massachusetts is a non recourse debt state. Other non recourse debt states are Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, and Mississippi.

Hope your not in that situation, but you can hold out until they come with a writ and a few heavies.

According to most state laws the only person who gets a copy of the home inspection report is the person who pays for it. If your home inspector gave a copy of the report to the realtor without your WRITTEN permission to do so you should report him to your state licensing board. A home inspector hired by you should represent you and only you. If your home inspector is more concerned about your realtor or the home owner than you it should be a red flag you hired the wrong inspector.

The second you start to wonder who your home inspector is working for is the same second you should yell out stop. That is correct stop the inspection and hire a home inspector who will work for you. Why should you be paying for a home inspector who is working for the seller or the realtor AND get stuck paying for all the items the home inspector missed, did not report on or under reported.

Home inspectors are supposed to tell you what is wrong, why it is wrong and what to do about it. They should also be telling you the implications of what is wrong.

Example:

You have aluminum wiring. FACT

Aluminum wiring is a known fire hazard. IMPLICATION

Corrective action can be very expensive and difficult THE REST OF THE IMPLICATION

When you interview home inspectors ask them flat out if they:

Allow agents to influence how inspection findings are conveyed to clients.

Reward or compensate anyone for referring clients.

Produce any marketing material designed for or aimed at agents.

Solicit real estate agents with the intent of obtaining inspection referrals.

Give "sales" presentations to real estate agents about our inspection services.

If they answer any of the above questions YES it is time to hang up and call another home inspector. If you make ten phone calls odds are you will be hanging up on at least eight home inspectors. The time it takes to make those calls will be the best time you ever invest in your home buying experence.