When you are facing foreclosure it feels like there is no way out. It feels like the whole world is crashing in. But, giving in to the problem by giving up is not the answer. The foreclosure process will keep moving forward, if you ignore it. Literally or figuratively crawling into bed and pulling the covers over your head will not help in any way.
But, how do you take action? What is the right action to take? Is there anything you can do to help the situation? There are answers. There are solutions.
Let’s start with the obvious questions. Is your situation one that can be fixed by catching up on your payments? If you could come current on the missed payments, do you have the ability to keep current after that point? If you could find some way to come current and stay current, then there are solutions that match your goals better than others. If the situation that caused you to fall behind on your house payments has not been corrected, then other solutions will need to be examined.
If your finanacial set back has been turned around and you just cannot see your way to catching up on the missed payments, you would be well advised to contact your lender. Try to work out one of their special payment plans or alternative catch up plans. All banks have a loss mitigation department to handle these types of requests. They may call it something else, but it does the same thing.
The names of these available programs will vary from institution to institiuotion as well. They may call them work out plans or loan modifications. Other names include foreberance plans and special payment plans. There are probably names for these programs that I have not heard of yet. Whatever the lender chooses to call their pet programs, the goal of all these programs are the same. The bank wants to help you stay in your home if they can find a way. The bank doesn’t want your home. It wants your money. Find out what plans are offered and if you can qualify. If you are earning near what you did before your set back and can make a few lifestyle sacrifices, you will be able to work through these programs and save your home and your credit.
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If working with the bank on these home retention plans won’t work for you, then you need to look to investors to help you save your home. I recently worked with a woman who was offered one hundred dollars a month over the next three years as a payment to have an investor pay off 5,000 she had acquired in back payments. That’s a pretty good deal. You could mow a few lawns or give up a few cups of coffee to only have to increase your monthly expenditure by a hundred dollars a month.
There are good investors and there are snakes. Be careful what you sign onto. This same woman was in trouble because a different investor had loaned her three thousand dollars and was going to take her home if she didn’t pay him the above referenced 5,000 dollars. There are as many twists on helping you with your back payments as there are people in these businesses. They will all have a slightly different twist on how to help you. Read the paper work carefully. Make sure you understand the plan they are going to implement. If it fits for you, and your situation, go for it. It is a lot better than having a foreclosure on your credit and all the heaqdache of losing your home.
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You can sell your home, if you want to avoid foreclosure. This can work if you don’t owe too much on your home and if the real estate market where you live is not too soft. To use this strategy you will have to sell your home for all you owe on it plus fees and late charges. You will also have to sell it for enough over that amount to accommodate real estate commissions if you wish to list with and agent. You can avoid these costs by selling your home without a real estate agent or broker. This however limits the exposure your home will get.
If you have enough equity in the home that it will sell quickly, and cover these costs, and if you are not so attached to the home that leavingin it is and option, then selling is a great way to avoid forclosure. Timing is important here. You will need to get it sold before the foreclosure sale takes place. When you have a legitimate offer on the table, the bank can often be persuaded to postpone the foreclosure sale until your sale is funded. They will most likely want to see a copy of the realestate purchase contract before they agree to push back the foreclosure sale date.
Can you catch up on your delinquent payments on your own? Do you have retgirement account s you can access to pay these dollars off? Do you have life insurance policies that have cash value you can access to pay off what’s owed? Would your employer agree to give you the year end bonus early? These are all remote possibilities I know, But you should exhaust every avenue open to you to keep a foreclosure off your record.
Finally, the best solution out there for most people facing foreclosure, is doing what is called a short sale. A short sale is when the bank will accept less than what is owed on a loan and dismiss there attachment to the property by doing so.
Why would a lender take less than is owed? The answer is, that the amount of money offered to them to take the short sale will actually net them more money than “taking the home back” would gain them. Simply put, owning a home costs the bank money. It doesn’t make them money. It can even hurt there ability to make loans if they get too many properties on their books.
When a bank takes a short sale offer, they get most of what is owed to them right away. The bank can then make money on that money by loaning it out again. The former homeowner avoids foreclosure. They can, in many cases, stay in their home, and even buy it back in the near future. This of course depends on the investor that the homeowner chooses to work with.
The investor succeeds, because he buys a home at a price that allows him to make a nice profit. Everyone who touches this deal comes out a winner. There is hope there are good solutions out there.
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