When you get this notice, you may feel fear or panic that you are on the brink of losing your home to foreclosure. You have to put these feelings aside and take immediate action because you won’t have a lot of time to try to stop the foreclosure.

Time is limited so this is what you should do.

1. Contact your mortgage holder and arrange a face to face meeting with someone who has authority to make decisions. Don’t discuss anything on the phone. When you have your meeting, be prepared to supply facts and figures to the loan officer. They will want to know if you are employed or not, how much you make, assets, and current expenses.

The lender should at least be willing to discuss options with you. If you are able to show that you have at least some resources at your disposal, you could qualify for a modified loan. Options could include an interest only loan for a set period of time, an extension on the term of your mortgage, or a reduction in the interest rate. The goal of these or other alternatives is to lower your payments so they are affordable for you.

2. If there is any equity in your home, you could possibly exchange this equity to clear up enough cash to bring your mortgage out of arrears. At the same time, it will be important to setup a new mortgage with terms that will make your payments within your means.

3. You might qualify for a one-time payment from the FHA Insurance fund in order to pay off any arrears. In order to qualify, you must be between 4 and 12 months delinquent on payments. But you must be able to show that your current financial situation will allow you to resume making regular payments on time.

This fund is for those who may have fallen behind due to a temporary situation, are now able to make current payments but can’t afford to pay off arrears.

4. Get help from government agencies. There are many people who are dealing with foreclosure. The government recognizes the problem and has setup several programs to help.

A couple of the more recent programs are the Obama Mortgage Modification Program and a program called Project Lifeline. Some government programs deal with the short term while others offer a longer term fix. You can also contact HUD for assistance.

5. A last resort kind of strategy may be to file suit against your creditors in court. There is such a huge backlog of cases waiting to be heard that this will give you some extra time to at least get your finances in order. An extreme measure like this should not be taken lightly. You should in fact, meet with an attorney who deals with foreclosure and other real estate transactions, before you actually file.

If you want to stop foreclosure fast, you need to take action right away. Don’t put it off and hope foreclosure won’t happen, because it will and then it will be too late to act.

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We have been through hundreds of negotiations like this, and we have learned that there are more than a few steps to take before we can finally receive that approval letter. None of those steps suddenly enable you to jump from A to Z right away. You simply have to learn what you’re dealing with so you can know how to manage the process more effectively.

If you want to be successful at negotiating short sales, it’s really all about understanding what lenders are thinking during those negotiations. They’re thinking about which course of action will cost them the least amount of money. If they see any way to collect that debt, they will do it. If they see any need to avoid a long-term bad debt, they will generally move in that direction. Lenders know how much it costs to continue to collect debts and maintain REOs. They know exactly how much money they lose when they have to take possession of a foreclosed property.

There’s no baloney about achieving real success in a short sale negotiation. Here are my ten best tips for making the most of your deal.

1) Submit a complete short sale package and make sure it gets assigned to a mitigator quickly. If it doesn’t get assigned, the offer will never be seen. Make sure to follow up and see if the lender has received your offer. Lenders lose short sale packages all the time or claim they never received them. Don’t let this happen to you.

2) Don’t give up. With all the foreclosures being processed lately, the loss mitigation departments are swamped. Pleasant persistence is the only way to get past this roadblock. If you don’t find the information you need, call them back once every two or three days until you do. You don’t have to be a pest and leave a message every time you call. Just say “thank you” and call them again another day.

3) When you find out who is handling your short sale package, ask them who owns the loan. I guarantee this will make your negotiations go more smoothly. Once you know whether the loan is a VA, FHA, Fannie, or Freddie loan, you can know exactly what their negotiation limits are.

4) Pleasantly explain your offer to the loss mitigator and push to have the lender order a new interior appraisal or BPO immediately.

5) Conduct an effective BPO.

6) Pull a title report after the BPO is done so you can resolve any outstanding issues before the closing.

7) Don’t be shy about asking the loss mitigator about the BPO number. You might get an answer, and you might not. If you do find out, count on paying 90 percent of that number.
If the lender refuses to disclose the BPO, you need to ask for a counteroffer. (When they make their counteroffer, this is usually equal to the amount of the BPO anyway.)

9) When you submit your counteroffer, include additional documentation to back up the amount you’re offering. You can use repair estimates, low comps, negative news reports about the neighborhood, and even the MLS listing itself, which shows how many days the house has been on the market.

10) Remind the loss mitigator that you can close quickly with cash.

You don’t need special tricks, and you don’t need a buddy in every loss mitigation department. You just need to realize that you can use the leverage from the fact that a short sale is generally better than a foreclosure in the eyes of a mortgage lender. Your job is to make them a sensible offer that will help them unload a problem property with the least amount of expense. Focus on what they need, and you’re on your way to getting what you need.

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Know your rights.

More than 80% of mortgage contracts violate one or more lending laws-and most of them go unnoticed. But these violations can be your biggest weapon in the loan modification process. They can give you the leverage you need to negotiate with your lender and stop foreclosure. Your loan modification attorney can help you understand your rights and use them to get the results you want.

Waiting too long can hurt you.

The foreclosure process is designed so that you have time to get back on your feet and save your home. But that doesn’t mean it’s safe to delay. The longer you wait, the harder it gets to get you out of that fix. As soon as you decide you need mortgage help, call for a loan modification help and get help.

Do work with your lawyer.

Your Home Loan Modification doesn’t rest in the hands of your lender, your broker, or your loan modification attorney. These people can help, but you have to do your part and cooperate with your lawyer. Make sure to submit your paperwork on time, answer questions honestly, and give them a clear picture of your financial situation.

Don’t file for bankruptcy, unless you really have to.

Many people think that filing for bankruptcy can help them stop foreclosure. But data from the American Bar Association shows that it doesn’t work that way. In some cases, bankruptcy is still a viable option, but don’t make any decisions without getting professional advice.

Do have a backup plan.

Not all people will qualify for a mortgage loan modification. Maybe you’ve fallen too far behind, your lender may be simply hard to work with, or maybe you don’t need it after all. It’s always good to have a Plan B. Your mortgage modification attorney can help you find the best solution for your situation.

Talk to your lawyer about a short sales if you can’t get your mortgage modified. This involves selling your home for less than its fair market value and giving the proceeds to your lender. Although you still lose your home, it’s not as damaging to your credit as foreclosure, so it’s easier to get back on your feet.

Contact a Loan Modification Specialist now to see if you are elgible to save on your mortgage.

Let’s face it, as easy as it may seem to just walk away from a home, the haunt of a foreclosure goes on for years to come affecting credit and even employment, in some cases. Many people are not aware that foreclosure even can affect their security clearance levels and future employment. Foreclosure is certainly not the best option, particularly with the advent of HAFA and other alternatives.

Hiding your head in the sand (ostrich mode) is not the answer. It is well worth the time invested to investigate your options, particularly in light of HAFA, which among many other things, provides monetary relocation assistance and eliminates the hovering concern over deficiency judgments when a short payoff has been negotiated.

One of my passions is to inform the public about their options to avoid foreclosure. I setup my Phoenix real estate “Home Rescue Network” website to do just that. Distressed homeowners who have negative equity or who are behind on their mortgage need to take the time to educate themselves. There is a comprehensive list of options to avoid foreclosure available on the site and a questionnaire to help determine eligibility for the new government programs.

With our National network of top agents around the country, we’re able to refer homeowners to the experts in their area to further educate and help them rescue their homes from the black hole of foreclosure. Homeowners or Agents who would like more information can contact me directly.

Simplifying and streamlining the use of Short Sales will be the result using HAFA’s top features including:

1. Providing incentives (financial) to borrowers, servicers AND investors

2. Elimination of deficiency judgments by requiring servicers to release borrowers of future liability

3. Standardized processes, documents and timeframes will be used to streamline and standardize the short sale process

4. HAMP eligible borrowers will have workable alternatives complementing HAMP

5. Financial and hardship information collected in HAMP will require no additional analysis on eligibility in HAFA

6. The homeowner will be allowed to receive pre-approved short payoff terms prior to the listing of the property

With over 11,000,000 homeowners in negative equity positions on their mortgages (that’s roughly 24% of all properties with a mortgage), I look forward to seeing what HAFA will be able to do to help borrowers avoid foreclosure and how the goals of HAFA to standardize the process flow, minimize the performance timelines and standardize documentation of short sales will play out.

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If you’ve been in your home for a number of years and have built quite a bit of equity, there is no question that you will want to weather the storm and keep making your payments if at all possible. Even though your home has lost a lot of its value, over time hopefully this value will return.

Then there are those people who purchased homes over the past few years, with little to no down payment, because they were promised very low interest rates for the first year or two. Once the interest rates increased so too did payments, making foreclosure almost certain.

But what about those who are still working and can afford to make their payments? There is a growing trend among some of these homeowners to just walk away, stop making payments and let their homes go into foreclosure.

The fact is that even though they can afford their mortgage payments they have come to a sobering conclusion. They realize that no matter how much cash they pour into paying down their mortgage, their homes are losing value faster than they can pay them down. They feel that it’s just not worth it to keep paying.

But everything is different when you are dealing with foreclosure that you choose to allow to happen. Before you let it happen, it’s important to seriously think about the long range consequences of your actions. That’s because the same rules won’t apply to you. So just what can you expect if you allow this kind of foreclosure to happen?

Well, for starters, government officials have stated that the “forgiveness” clause that can be applied to people who legitimately lose their home to foreclosure won’t apply to people who choose a foreclosure even though they can afford payments. They have not yet revealed what steps, if any, they are prepared to take to stop these walk away by choice foreclosures.

There is no doubt that your credit rating will be negatively affected. It’s quite possible that the penalties may last longer or be more severe. Financial institutions are especially concerned because of the fact that if you’ve chosen to walk away from financial obligations once, what’s to stop you from doing it again at some future time.

If you have a notation on your credit report to this effect, you may have more difficulty getting financing for other major purchases. If you are able to get financing, it’s quite possible that you will pay much higher interest rates. You may not be able to even get a credit card for a long while.

In the future, will banks and mortgage companies be willing to finance mortgages for those who default by choice? Or will this choice have a negative impact in future years?

There is no definitive answer as to what exactly will happen. But before making the decision to walk away, carefully consider what dealing with foreclosure under these circumstances may mean for you, not just now but in the future.

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Maybe you already have an idea of what might happen in foreclosure, especially if you know someone who has already been there. Most people don’t realize they have more options than to stay or leave. Moving away might be a temporary solution, but there’s more to it than just giving the house back to the bank. How will the foreclosure affect your credit? Will you even be able to buy a car after this is over?

No matter whether you’re the homeowner or someone who works with homeowners in foreclosure, you should be aware of all the options in this situation. If you’re the homeowner, it is best to understand everything you can about the foreclosure process. If you’re someone who works with homeowners, it’s your job to help that homeowner understand their options during this difficult time. It helps if everyone has a realistic view of what could happen and why.

Two of the options have been covered frequently in the media lately: deed-in-lieu and loan modifications.

When homeowners agree to a deed-in-lieu, they voluntarily give up their home. The bank is spared the time and cost of going through with the foreclosure, but the homeowner’s credit is damaged just the same.

What about loan modifications? The government’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) promotes mortgage loan modifications as being a viable way to deal with the foreclosure crisis. Yet the current rate of success for those loans to go from trial to permanent modification is 4 percent. Using California as an example, roughly 140,000 trial loans have entered into the modification process; however, only 5,600 loans will be modified based on their current success rate (4 percent). California filed over 450,000 notices of default for 2009. Those being helped are few and far between given the current numbers.

There are four more successful options.

1) Live in the house until eviction, and let the bankruptcy system hold off the foreclosure until the auction date. It won’t make the foreclosure go away, but it will help the homeowner save money temporarily.

2) List the house for the amount of the debt and hope someone comes along who loves the house so much that they will pay your asking price before the auction date. You can dream all you want, but the odds are that nobody will pay more than the house is worth, and you’ll end up going back to option one.

3) The homeowner can list the property with a real estate agent who is willing to wait out the short sale process and encourage buyers to do the same in order to get a discount on the property. The buyer may get a great deal on the house, and the real estate agent may still get credit for the sale, but it doesn’t always work that way.

The agent can run into a roadblock when the buyer says they need a home right away. Most short sales can’t be completed in less than 60 days.

If the real estate agent or the seller isn’t familiar with negotiating a short sale, other problems can arise during the negotiation process. Banks have entire loss mitigation departments staffed with people who are trained in collecting mortgage debt, and they have no problem taking advantage of homeowners who don’t understand the system.

I’ll give you an example. Did you know that deficiency judgments and post-sale promissory notes can be avoided in some cases? You can know the basics of how the process is supposed to work, but shouldn’t you learn how to work the process? Wouldn’t that alone be worth it?

4) The fourth option is to put the home up for sale with a real estate agent who is willing to work with an investor as the buyer. A well-educated investor would use the right contracts and the lender’s forms to obtain approval for a short sale while still guaranteeing the real estate agent’s commission. The investor would then own the house to keep, rent, or sell, and the homeowners could move on with their lives.

Why should the homeowner work with an independent short sale investor? People who negotiate short sales every day know the best ways to get the best deal for the homeowner. For instance, the BPO process is more than just having an appraiser stop by. An experienced investor will know how to handle the situation to the homeowner’s benefit.

Every real estate agent who works with homeowners who are threatened with foreclosure should know these four options. Homeowners can file bankruptcy and stay until the auction, sell the property for the amount due on the mortgage, ask the lender to approve a short sale and hope a buyer will wait for that to happen with them, or apply for a short sale with an investor waiting to become the buyer.

My partners at Strategic Real Estate Coach specialize in educating people about short sale solutions for homeowners in trouble. We offer a free Silver Membership in the coaching program, and the benefits include several reports to help you learn everything you need to succeed!

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When you help people learn the truth about foreclosure and how to avoid it, you give them a chance to overcome one of the most difficult times in their lives. Educate each homeowner about their options, and watch them turn a bad situation into a fresh start.

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First off, make the decision to do whatever it will take to keep your home. Just having this attitude will help you in your negotiations with your lender.

You may be feeling skeptical right about now. But the cold hard truth is homes everywhere have been greatly devalued. Many homeowners have thrown in the towel and walked away from their mortgages and their homes. Lenders are losing a great deal of money every time this happens. So if you can approach your lender with a plan of action you may be able to prevent the foreclosure from going through.

Here are several of the options that you have, to try to stop a foreclosure.

The first thing you should do is to arrange a face to face meeting with your mortgage holder to talk things over. Be clear that your intention is to work to stop the foreclosure from occurring and you want them to help.

Come prepared with financial statements, paycheck stubs, and anything else that can demonstrate your ability to pay something each month.

Be upfront and honest. Since your home is likely valued at less than you owe, like so many homes today, try to renegotiate your mortgage. Point out that if you are forced to walk away from your mortgage, and your home is sold through foreclosure the lender will not be getting market value.

You are trying to make a real case for an altered agreement with your bank, so you can stop a foreclosure. You have a good shot at being able to refinance if you have a variable interest rate and have had a good credit history in the past. Refinancing will allow you to lock in at a lower interest rate and bring your monthly payments down to a more manageable range.

Another method of refinancing is when a revised repayment agreement is set up. This agreement will probably include a clause where you agree to immediately repay a portion of your arrears. This demonstrates to your mortgage holder that you are acting in good faith.

With this type of agreement you are getting your payments lowered without necessarily getting a lower interest rate. The length of your mortgage will generally be extended in this case.

If refinancing is not an option, it’s possible that you may still be eligible for a loan modification. In this situation your mortgage holder is providing you with a new mortgage with a different set of terms as well as lower interest rates, hopefully. The goal here is to make the payments affordable for you.

The bottom line is that if you sit back and do nothing, you will lose your home to foreclosure. But hopefully now you have a few ideas that will help you figure out how to stop a foreclosure and avoid losing your home.

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The first thing is not to panic. You do have several options. Some of the most common solutions to stop a foreclosure that we can help with is to catch up your back-payments, take over payments or negotiate a short sale with your bank

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Tipping points that put homeowners over the edge:

–Homeownership Preservation Foundation data of 60,000 homeowners Lenders and Foreclosure

Lenders and investors do not make money on foreclosures. Losses range from 20 cents to 60 cents on the dollar. Lenders typically lose $50,000 or more on one foreclosure. – Craig Focardi, CMB, Research Director, TowerGroup’s consumer lending division, cited by Dona Dezube, “Heroic Homeownership,” Mortgage Banking, (June 2006) p. 82.

Low- and moderate-income borrowers who enter a repayment plan are 68% less likely to lose their homes.– Dona Dezube, “Heroic Homeownership,” Mortgage Banking, (June 2006) p. 82

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How To Avoid Foreclosure San Diego

There are several ways to prevent foreclosure. Most of the families face foreclosure problem due to following reasons: unexpected unemployment, medical emergency, divorce, death within the family, excessive debts and inability to pay increasing interest rates,If borrower has failed to pay more than three mortgage payments or lender has filed a notice of default (NOD), then you may lose your house. But there are certain ways which can help you stop the foreclosure process.Foreclosure Workout: Borrowers have some time till the house goes in for auction; some lenders may work out a plan which would allow borrowers to save their house from foreclosure. Short Sale:Short sale means mortgage lender is ready to accept less payment when the homeowner sells his house, lower than what he owes on his mortgage. The mortgage lender would prefer not to close in on a property since the process is too expensive and they do not want to be saddled with vacant properties. Refinance: When a homeowner or borrower is not able to pay three months mortgage payment on time, they may take a new home loan to pay off existing debts. Refinancing can help homeowners to stop foreclosure and settle the process. There are various government programs that help homeowners with refinance during foreclosure process. Some of them are making home affordable program and Hope for Homeowners Program. Bankruptcy: Bankruptcy is a process wherein a person legally declares himself or his business unable to pay outstanding debts. Homeowners go in for bankruptcy only when they can’t find any other alternative. There are two types of foreclosure bankruptcy: Chapter 7 and chapter 13 bankruptcy. In chapter 7, all assets will be sold to repay debts. This means you will be losing your home to foreclosure permanently. But it depends on the bankruptcy court as to whether you’re eligible for this type of bankruptcy. In chapter 13, an individual can stop foreclosure without leaving his home. Homeowner has to make repayment within three to five years. This filing is good for people who are having regular income but suffering from temporary financial difficulties. Deed in lieu:Deed in lieu of foreclosure means the homeowner gives the property to lender because he can’t pay mortgage amount. Lender sells the property in order to retrieve a part or whole of the loan balance the borrower owes. Documents required for deed in lieu of foreclosure are Agreement in Lieu of foreclosure and Warranty deed. Ask for forbearance: Sometimes homeowners are not able to pay monthly mortgage amount due to loss of employment or short term illness. If you think that your financial condition will improve in the future then take to mortgage lender and request for forbearance. To qualify, you must provide proof of financial hardship. They will analyze your situation and if you qualify, they’ll temporarily suspend mortgage payments until you get back on your feet. Forbearance period is for six to nine months. Loan modification:Contact your mortgage lender and ask for loan modification. Mortgage loan modifications can result in lower interest rate or extended loan terms. Altering original loan term is sufficient enough to lower mortgage payments and stop foreclosure.

How To Avoid Foreclosure San Diego

Do you need to stop foreclosure in California?  Don’t worry, you are not alone.  You do need to act extrememly fast if you want to be successful though.

There are a few ways to stop foreclosure.  The most popular involve using an attorney (which costs some money that you might not have) or using the produce the note option.

The produce the note defense is a very cost effective way to stop foreclosure in California and even other states as well.  It is NOT a permanent solution to foreclosure.  What is will do is stop your pending foreclosure and by enough time to work out a loan modification or get your lender to agree to a short sale so you do not have a foreclosure on your credit report for 7 years.

This is a fairly simple option.  You really just have to file some paperwork that asks your lender to produce the note on your home.  This verifies that you owe them the balance on your home.

Lenders are so backed up right now, it takes time to produce the note.  This can be a month or several months, it just depends.  What is good about this is that it almost always works.  If you have a foreclosure sale pending in 2 days you can still do it.

Then, you can decide what you want to do.  If you have an income coming in, but can’t afford your current mortgage payments, you may qualify for the Obama Mortgage Plan.  This program will dramatically lower your monthly payments and if you qualify, your lender cannot foreclose on your home for 3 months.   This gives ample time to complete the loan modification (some lenders can do this in a few days with this program) and save your home.

If you would like information on how to stop foreclosure in California and want to see if you may qualify for the Obama mortgage plan, just visit the site below.  They have a free loan modification calculator that will tell you if you qualify.

How To Avoid Foreclosure San Diego