Foreclosure Options To Consider

The Center for Responsible Lending estimates that there we’ll be 2.4 million homes foreclosures in 2009. Does that number shock anyone? apparently it doesn’t seem to affect anyone in Washington. While our government makes health care a priority,

Americans are losing their homes in record numbers. This is a byproduct of an unemployment rate in double digits. This is also a byproduct of irresponsible lending and irresponsible borrowing.

One of our visitors relates the story of the loss of their home.The value of the home was $350,000 2 years ago. The last month that we lived in it I tried to sell it for under $100,000 and had no takers.

Banks are taking back homes and they are not reselling them. We have to ask why they are not, because there must be a motive for that. There is government foreclosure help available, but frankly it is not available to everyone.

Below you’ll find the posts at Financial Advice Zone from the foreclosures category.We highly recommend you read each of them if you’re serious about saving money and saving your house from foreclosure

The Emergency Homeowners Loan Program

The federal government just passed the long awaited plan called The Emergency Homeowners’ Loan Program, (EHLP). This program was launched last year, however due to political and technical difficulties that delayed the government from beginning the program over a year ago. EHLP is a government issued loan with a zero percent interest rate aimed at [...]

Strategic Mortgage Default Not Always the Best Option

Are you underwater on your mortgage? Millions of Americans are. Millions of homeowners find themselves in foreclosure. There’s another group of homeowners who have decided that a strategic default on their mortgage is their best course of action. If you have been considering a strategic default, you should know that those who have decided strategic [...]

How To Avoid Foreclosure

Many people in the United States diligently pursue a great American dream of home ownership. Regardless of economic conditions or financial hardship most Americans seemingly pursue owning a home with passion and purpose. Only a home and encompasses many benefits as well as many responsibilities. Home ownership comes through many ways and means. Some may [...]

Understand Foreclosure Terminology

Contact your lender or mortgage company as soon as you realize you may have a problem and may have missed a payment or soon will be missing a payment. Research suggests that at least half of all homeowners that have defaulted on a mortgage or missed payments never contact their lender or mortgage company. This [...]

Beware Of Foreclosure Scams

When you first purchased your home is not likely that she thought about the possibility of losing your home to foreclosure. The reality is the potential and possibility of losing your home can be a traumatic experience. Sadly millions of Americans are facing losing their homes through foreclosure every year. As horrifying as that experience [...]

How the Short Sale Process Works

With the current housing crisis, short sales are becoming very popular with underwater homeowners and lenders that are holding a lot of bad mortgages. A short sale is an agreement between the homeowner and the bank to sell their property for less than what is owed on the mortgage contract. In the past few years [...]

Are You At Risk of Foreclosure

Anyone who owns a home worries about foreclosure at one point or another. This leads you to wonder how you get foreclosure help. There are services out there to help stop foreclosure. But the first step is recognizing when you might be at risk of being foreclosed on in the first place. The most obvious [...]