Everything You Need To Know About The Eviction Process
ByPast week I received a question from one person worried to receive an Eviction Notice:
“If you live in a house and are losing it , have been living in it for 6 months paying no mortgage, will they just show up at our door and say ok you have to leave? or will we get some kind of 30 notice to leave?”
Response: An EVICTION NOTICE SIGNED BY A JUDGE FROM COURT must be shown in order to legally take you out from your home. Nobody can do this without this notice. Check your Eviction Laws, though, because every state is different, so you need to understand it very well. You can go to foreclosurelaw.org to find the legal rules for your case. Check also if your state is a JUDICIAL or NON-JUDICIAL system as this is very important to know.
To understand the EVICTION PROCESS, you need to learn the following common points (although every state is different, and using different names for every point):
1.- DEFAULT: This period is between the first 30 days to 90 days being late in the payment of your mortgage.
2. Notice of Default (NOD).- At 90 days late, you will receive a Notice of Default from the lender, asking for the payment or your house will be foreclosed.
3.- NOTICE OF SALE: Generally at 120 days late on your mortgage, a Notice of Sale will arrive at your home from a lawyer or a trustee telling you what day and what place will be the auction of your home. You still have the option to negotiate your situation.
4. Foreclosure (FC).- After (generally) 2 months of the NOS, the foreclosure sale will be made. Some states take more months for this. (you can stay free at the property)
5. Reinstatement.- After the FC sale, there is a period of REINSTATEMENT, where you can apply to stay more in your property with the reason to find a mortgage that qualifies you to repurchase the property. (It is in around 50% of the states)
6.- EVICTION.- MUST BE AN OFFICIAL NOTICE FOR THIS. When the property is already sold, or the Reinstatement Period is over, you will be contacted by the new owner or a representative. They may offer you CASH FOR KEY if you leave the property the next couple of weeks (or more) in good conditions. If you didn?t leave after 30 or 45 days, the new owner MUST FILE A COMPLAINT IN COURT, to start the Eviction Process and get you out from the property under the eviction laws. Then, you will receive an EVICTION NOTICE from a Judge, stating that if you dont leave on a DETERMINED DATE, the sheriff will go to the property to take you and your family out of the property and lock the doors. You will not be able to take out your belongings after that.
Don’t forget you have legal rights. Homeowners can stay rent free into their home until receiving an official notice from court. See your eviction laws.
NOT EVEN A SHERIFF CAN TAKE ANY HOMEOWNER OUT FROM HIS HOME WITHOUT THIS NOTICE FROM COURT.
Many states allow homeowners to stay legally free at least six months without making mortgage payments. Other states allow up 18 months. See your state laws.
My suggestion is that YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO AVOID FORECLOSURE. You definitely can do it by yourself. Don?t be scammed by companies doing this for you.
Specifications: You have to understand I?m not an accountant, or a lawyer, or a tax analyst giving you tax, financial or legal advice. These suggestions are not a substitution for the outlook of a knowledgeable attorney. Nevertheless I?m a Financial Instructor in Arizona doing Business Coaching, Marketing Coaching, Real Estate investments, Credit Repair, Foreclosure Prevention, Residential and Commercial Loans, Mortgage Training and Origination since 2002, I dont declare Im giving legal guidance in this piece of writing to your exact circumstances. This writing was created to inform homeowners in mortgage stress. This writing should be not interpreted to be legal advice for your own conditions. This writing is only for individual information. Under no conditions this article should be understood as a legal advice to market, purchase or keep any house.
