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Archive for April, 2009

Foreclosure Laws In California

Question: california law re: foreclosures?

I am trying to locate the law that says if you get a house in foreclosure that all of the prior liens of record are wiped out by the foreclosure. That is true isnt it? I dont know about tax liens but regular liens are wiped out right? but i cant find the law to back me up. I know it is out there!

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Answer: Typically on a foreclosure, you get the right, title and interest of the lienholder. If the property tax lien has a "superpriority" it may have priority over earlier liens (not sure) but with tax liens, only the junior liens are wiped out. So if the house has a first and second deed of trust and a couple of judgment liens as well as the tax lien, which you have stepped into with the foreclosure, none of the earlier filed liens will be wiped out. The general rule with tax liens (other than property tax liens which have their own rules) is "First in time is first in right".

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Louisville Foreclosed Homes

The down turn in the global economy has made pay cuts and job loss the order of the day. A lot of people are defaulting on their loan and mortgage payments and as a result they are being foreclosed by banks or financial institutions. That is why there are a lot of foreclosed properties available in the market for home buyers to choose from. Louisville in Jefferson County of Kentucky, USA is also not an exception to this trend. If you are planning to settle down in Louisville by buying a property there then you should first peruse various listing of Louisville Foreclosures.

There are various steps of buying a foreclosures property and these basic steps are as follows:
·        Know about the various types of Foreclosure properties and their legal aspects
·        Find out about your own specifications about the property you want to buy
·        Set your budget for buying a foreclosed property and secure your finance
·        Settle on a representative to bid for you in force closure auctions.

However, before settling on a property from the Louisville Foreclosures you should keep certain key things in mind. You should glean extensive information about different types of foreclosed properties like Notice of Default (NOD), Notice of Trustee (NOT) and Real Estate Owned (RTO) foreclosed properties. You should decide which end of the foreclosure cycle you want to buy the property from. It would be safer to buy a property already foreclosed by a bank or government but then again with these properties you have to deal with a larger pool of buyers.

Secondly, you should understand your own requirements first if you are planning to buy a property from Louisville Foreclosures for your own use. You should first decide what size of property you need, that means settling on the number of bedrooms and bathrooms you might need. Then fine tune the other specification like pools and yards. If you have got small children then you surely need a home with a yard to play for them.

Various foreclosures listing websites available in the internet can be of immense help to you in this regard. Before you refine your property search you can use these broader criterions to check out the various foreclosed properties available in the market. All you need to do is to log into these websites and get registered with them for a small fee. Then you can avail all those information about foreclosure listings which were earlier available to professional real estate agents.

About the Author:

Ron Akins is Chief Writer on Real Estates and Foreclosures with over 20 years of experience in writing and provides expert tips on buying Louisville Foreclosures. For more details please visit Louisville Foreclosures

Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Tips for Buying a Property from Louisville Foreclosures

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Buying Foreclosure From Bank

Question: I want to buy a bank owned foreclosure home with cash. How do I begin?

I live in Albuquerque, NM.

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Answer: First you have to do some research and find out where these homes are or at least the home you want. I would suggest using the site GovernmentAuctions.org - they have a comprehensive list of foreclosed homes, details info on where and when the home goes up for sale, and who is in charge. If this is your first foreclosure - they also have a tutorial. After that I would find an auction that specifies that cash is allowed. Most of them go with cashiers check.

Real Estate: Buying Bank Foreclosures

Stop Foreclosure In Nevada

 Nevada again is on top of the foreclosure statistics, and I really don’t feel the necessity of citing any sources. It is an open secret for quite sometime. Foreclosure is on the rise, and the tide has become uncontrollable especially in Nevada even after some phony good news. Even though I had written extensively in my other blog under “loan modification attorney of Nevada, I still I like to mention briefly here the tips to stop the foreclosure:

1. Please contact your lenders/servicers immediately. Don’t wait for the notices to start appearing and posting in local newspapers. Contact them urgently. It is important. Most of the foreclosures are happening because of no or lack of communications.

2. Open a dialog and tell them your situation. Write down all the facts of your situation. Send them letter, and keep copies for your record.

3. Don’t be frustrated with the process. It is obviously time consuming. There are lots of people ahead of you and banks are swamped with similar requests.

4. Most of the folks (newly hired) by your lenders and servicers are new folks, and learning the job as they go. Please be patient with them as they have no experiece, a customer service kind of education (meaning high school) and are not paid much ($10 an hour or so).

5. Make record of every phone calls, write down the name, phone extension etc of the person you spoke.

6. No need to lose your temper or frustration on any of the customer or loss mitigation representative. They have not caused this situation.

7. Send them whatever they want, resend the same things again. Don’t make a big deal about their demands. They are swamped. Their fax machines are overworked and may be out of ink, or papers, or other technical issues. Remember they are human beings as well.

8.Try to call the rep by their first name more often than one time during conversation. Try to build a bond between you and him/herself. Yelling, screaming would be totally unproductive. No need to tell them the horror stories, they know enough already. Try to be brief, and not very legalistic. You are not an attorney, you are consumer. Ask yourself one question, why I am behind? How many months I am behind? Why did not I pay them? Afterall, you signed the contract as well. Please stop having over expectations. No one is deliberatly harming you. Accept the fact that you could be wrong also, and you had made mistakes as well. Now, let us sit back and read this wonderful article.

9. Once you have been denied, explore other options.

10. If nothing works, walk out graciously from your home without destroying anything. Maybe try to get a cash deal for “keys”. Treat it as white elephant and balance your budget.

About the Author:

Malik Ahmad is a Nevada licensed attorney and counselor at law. He is admitted in all courts in the state of Nevada, including US District Court. He has an extensive experience in real estate, including mortgages, escrow, rela estate and foreclosure. He is a solo proprietor and the principal of a small firm in Las Vegas, Nevada

Source – How to Stop Foreclosure–General Tips

Stop Foreclosure in Reno, Nevada

Government Tax Foreclosure Houses

Question: For foreclosure properties, can you tell me the steps of the process please?

For example, how is it determined whether house is owned by bank or government and whether… and how is it determined whether it goes on the market or to an auction… and where are the auctions held? If back taxes are owed, does the bank pay the city off? I am very curious as to how this process works.

If know any of these answers, will you reply please?

Thanks!

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Answer: Calling an agent is a great idea (I am a broker) but I think what you are looking for are tax sales and sheriff sales. These are typically posted at your local county court house. Go to the court house and ask at the assessment office, or tax claim. One or the other will send you where you want to go.

Financial institutions that hold mortgages on these properties will purchase the properties at auction and then they may put it with your local real estate agent. There are some deals to be had at this level.

Where you have to be careful is if you purchase a property that still has a lien on it meaning you buy it for back taxes but you are also buying the old mortgage too. This can happen at auction.

Good luck, make sure you do your research.

Real Estate Tax Foreclosures