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Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Foreclosure in Houston!
If you have a house that's going into foreclosure? We have investors who are prepared to make you no obligation offers to buy your house fast for cash. If you are not able to make up the payments on your house and it is going to foreclosure. We have investors who can buy houses fast and prevent you from having a foreclosure on record.
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Why you want to stop a foreclosure getting on your record.
Here some reasons to avoid a foreclosure:
a. First, a homeowner would like to stop a foreclosure to keep their home. Whether or not this is possible depends on every situation. Often there is not enough equity to make this possible. Some investors may make wild and empty promises in order to take advantage of a homeowner in this situation. This is why it is very important to check out your possible investor/buyers and make sure you understand what kind of deal you're getting into.
b. Once you have a foreclosure you will always be asked about it when getting a home loan. When applying to purchase, or refinance a home every lender asks the question, "have you ever had a foreclosure?" So naturally having a foreclosure in your history is something to be avoided, as it will be seriously looked at by any lender.
c. The foreclosure will stay on your history for a very long time. While it is possible the foreclosure may come off your credit report after many years, lenders always require that you disclose whether you have had one, or not and there is no time limit for that.
Can you stop, or just avoid foreclosure.
Selling your house fast to avoid getting a foreclosure on your history can often be done by selling to cash investor buyers. In some cases, but not always, a lender may postpone the foreclosure if you have a valid contract showing intent to sell the property. Sometimes the foreclosure day can not be avoided, in which case the sooner you work on getting your house sold the better. A lender may be less likely to delay a foreclosure, if they have already done so, but you were not able to get the debt repaid.
If you can get your house sold and not have a foreclosure, then you will have a better chance of realizing your home owners dream again in the near future. If your house is foreclosed on, you may have to wait a lot longer. Credit is something that can always be improved again. Over a period of time you can improve your credit again through making timely payments on credit accounts and this good credit will serve to cover, or negate your former poor credit history. However a foreclosure is not easily covered and is best avoided altogether.
How much time is needed to sell a foreclosure.
Typically investors can purchase a house in 2-4 weeks, but there is often not that much time when a house is going into foreclosure. In the best case scenario, an investor might be able to purchase a home in days, but usually need at least one week to get their title insurance researched on the property.
If an investor is buying a home for all cash, they will certainly want to have title research done and to acquire a title insurance policy. Title companies can sometimes get this done on a rush in days, but that is not the norm. Since we're talking about foreclosure though, time is very important and there is often not enough of it.
Although a home owner is usually aware a foreclosure is coming months in advance, that time is usually spent understandably, trying to pay off the debt, or refinance the home so they may keep it, which of course would be best. Sadly though this often does not work out, and they may end up waiting too late to work on actually selling the home.
That is why it is useful to explore your options early and make a decision on what you need to do. So if you do decide to sell the home that is going into foreclosure, you will have at least a few weeks available to find a suitable buyer who will then have sufficient time to purchase the home.
Stop Foreclosure scams & empty promises:
As you start exploring different possibilities for avoiding a foreclosure-especially if you're searching on the Internet-you're likely to run into all kinds of businesses, some with wildly fantastic claims. It is important to be cautious whom you deal with and that you don't waste what little time you have left to the foreclosure deadline chasing empty promises.
There are too many people out there willing to take advantage of your vulnerabilities at this difficult time. Read and make sure you understand whatever you consider signing. Ask lots of questions, check people out and get second opinions.
There are websites online where you can view recent subdivision sales to make an estimated valuation of your property. If you are expecting to sell your house fast for cash, do not expect to get top dollar for it though. If you hold out for retail value of a property going into foreclosure, you risk losing it anyway and having a foreclosure history.
Things to be cautious of, so you know what you're getting involved in:
Some of the following are things to be mindful of when selling your property under these circumstances. There are scenarios where someone might try and take advantage of your difficult situation. Following are some things to be cautious of and you may be offered, but you should be aware of the details so you can make an educated decision.
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We can save your credit, just pay a fee and sign the deed over to our company. The foreclosure will be on us and won't go on your credit. Not true, the foreclosure will only be reported on the borrowers of the original note, no one else.
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We'll cure the default and we'll pay you to sign the house over to us. Yes, some companies might be able to do just that, but you must know there's no guarantee the house will not still get foreclosed on and that they will make all the payments. If you're only other option is foreclosure though, there are cases when this would not be a bad choice.
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We'll buy the property and lease it back to you with the option to buy it back. While this might happen some time, to buy it back you're new loan will have to be bigger than the loan you already have and probably with a higher rate. With higher payments it will much harder to qualify when it comes time for you to buy the house. While you may not have much choice in some cases, don't be naive in thinking it'll be easy to get a new loan to buy the house back.
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Our Realty company specializes in selling pre-foreclosures for best price. Any agent, or company can claim this and what does that mean? Well you'll sign a listing agreement, then can't sell the house yourself if you do find an investor to buy it without having to pay the agent their commission and that may erase any equity an investor needs to buy the house.
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You can stop foreclosure with a bankruptcy. Not true, bankruptcy does not stop foreclosure, it just postpones it, but that may give you much needed time to straighten out your finances. If you're waiting for that last minute check from a dying relative though...they never come.
When facing a foreclosure situation where your time is limited as it usually is, you don't want waste time on suppositions and vague possibilities. Get to business and make some decisions on what you need to do, time is your enemy and working your options early, will give you more of them.
Foreclosures are certainly on the rise with the recent problems in the subprime market.