If your home has been foreclosed on, there is no way to save your home. The important thing is to save your home from foreclosure before the foreclosure is finalized.

Because this issue is foremost in the minds of our leaders in Washington right now, there are a lot of programs to help you stop foreclosure and keep your house. Talk to your lender first to find out what you can do to stop foreclosure. You may be able to do a “loan modification” on your mortgage and get the payments down for you. Some lenders also allow you to add the missed payments onto the end of your loan.

You need to find out if you have a “Right of Redemption” in your mortgage that may give you up to a year to straighten your situation out and to get back on track with your payments.

It is by far preferable for you and your future to stop foreclosure and sell your house before the foreclosure is finalized. If you try to sell you house and cannot get enough money to pay off the loan, you may be able to do a “Short Sale” with your lender. This is where your lender agrees to take what they can get and give you a release on your mortgage.

Often times lenders will not consider allowing you to give your house back to them by you deeding it back to them with a “Deed in “Lieu of Foreclosure” unless you have had a terrible hardship. Your hardship has to have been very serious such as death of the larger breadwinner, loss of jobs, a health situation or similar. A natural disaster may count if your county was registered as a Federal Disaster.

In this situation it is by far better to stop foreclosure in its tracks before it goes to the Sheriff’s Sale because as mentioned before there is no way to save a house once foreclosure sale has taken place.

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