This headline out of Missouri at first seems encouraging to the average homeowner trying to find anyway possible to keep from having their home taken from them. Like this family in the featured story, many homeowners have done everything possible to “keep a roof over their heads”, including selling all the family jewelry. But unlike…
“Thus, as counter-intuitive as it may seem, the high share of underwater homes is helping the market by at least keeping the supply of homes for sale low.” In an article in Core Logic today entitled : “The positives of Negative Equity”, ( http://www.dsnews.com/articles/positives-of-negative-equity-on-home-prices-corelogic-2012-06-11), the author draws several conclusions which are worth your consideration! Locally,…
If you’ve been reading blogs and articles on how to save your house from foreclosure and you are overwhelmed by it all, you are not alone – Like Mat Kearney’s song about having your back to the wall and getting that bank notice, the situation can seem dark. The answers can be hard. As loan…
Depending on who you ask, the Commonwealth of Virginia is the second easiest state in the United States in which to foreclose on a deed of trust or mortgage. Along with about half of the states, Virginia is a “non-judicial foreclosure state”. That means that in most cases, a mortgage lender does not need to…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/16/us-housing-borrowers-idUSBRE84F04Y20120516 Very encouraging article in Reuters today about how quickly some “victims” of financial failure have been able to turn their lives around and buy a new home after a short sale. Actual statistics are not yet available nor can an exact amount of recovery time be quantified, but if you are facing a no…
