Avoiding Foreclosure  – Discover The Options You Have

“If you are avoiding foreclosure you might be shocked to discover the options you have, and the pitfalls you need to know to avoid along the way”.

By Harry Faulkner

You do have many options when you are avoiding foreclosure.  Many of the options include selling your home, short sales, deed in-lieu of foreclosure, repayment plan and more.  If you are looking at foreclosing you should work out something with your lender to save your home.

Many people end up foreclosing on their home due to a death in the family, divorce, and other traumatic events that cause them to be in a difficult financial time of their life.  If you are facing foreclosure there are things you can do to stop the process.

A repayment plan is an option available to most people from a lender.  If you are behind on your monthly payments you can have the option to repay the payments you are behind on in separate payments.  This means you will start from today and make the normal stated payments on your home.  The past payments will be split up for you to pay on them when you can.  If you were just down on your luck for a couple of months this should be an option if you want to keep your home.

If you cannot keep your home and you know you won’t be able to afford it you should look into selling your home.  Talk to an agent right away and put your home up for sale.  The best thing to do is put your home up for sale for the amount of money you owe the bank.  You must try to sell your home first before you can do a short sale.

A short sale on the home is where the bank will allow you to sell the home for about 30k less than what you owe the bank.  You will put the house up for sale at a lower price but specify to the people to ‘make an offer’ because it is a short sale.  When you receive an offer on the home the bank will approve or deny the amount.  If they approve the sale at a lower amount then you will not have to pay back the difference of what you owe the bank.  The bank will call the loan paid off.  When you file taxes the next year, the difference of what you owed the bank and what your home sold for you will have to claim as income.  You will have to pay taxes on this amount.  This is one of the best ways to avoiding foreclosure.

Another way you can stop foreclosure is by just signing the house back over to the lender.  You will sign the title back over to the bank.  This is called a deed in lieu of foreclosure.  It doesn’t look like a foreclosure on your credit score but it doesn’t look good either.

There are ways of avoiding foreclosure you should consider if you cannot make the payments on your home.  If you know you cannot keep your home because you cannot afford the payments you should consider your options.  These options can help you save your credit from being destroyed.

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