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The year 2009 has experienced an overflow of homes foreclosed in the market. The lifting of moratoria and rising unemployment have been the two main factors leading to this trend. In an attempt to curb the oversupply of foreclosure properties a number of states have launched some initiatives.

The $8000 tax credit provision put in place by the Obama government to aid the foreclosure program is one of these initiatives. This new program is meant to aid the taxpayers that are conducting their first home purchase in three years. However in order to be eligible to this claim they must be able to purchase the home prior to the end of this year. Unfortunately with the rising unemployment not many people have been able to take advantage of this program.

The government foreclosure programs have also inspired several states to create their own loan programs. These programs are meant to advance tax credits for taxpayers that qualify. This will increase the buying power of the masses which will eventually contribute to cutting down the foreclosed homes glut. Basically these loans act as second mortgages that are due when the $8000 tax refunds from the IRS have been received.

Missouri in particular has been the pioneer in developing such programs. It developed its own program as a spin off from the government’s foreclosure program. In actuality the advance tax credit amounts for 6% of sales price without interest and they will have till June 2010 to pay up. If in any case the advanced tax credit does not get paid it would automatically be converted into a fixed rate second mortgage for the ext ten years.

On the other side Washington aims to expand its foreclosed homes tax credit loan program. They want to modify it to function as a down payment program. Other states that have launched there own initiatives include Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Mexico. With these programs in the pipelines other states will be forced to come up with their own initiatives in order to stabilize the housing market.

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Question: Bankruptcy and Forcloser question......?

I filed for bankruptcy about a year ago but contiued to make payments on my home. Now I can no longer afford to make the payments on my morgage loans. I know that the home was part of the bankruptcy but as long as I stayed current on the payments I would be fine. So my question is...If I stop making the payments, how long do I have before they foreclose on my home? Can I just pack the things I want and move into a rental and let the morgage lenders deal with the house? I dont think they can come after me for the money because it was part of the bankruptcy. I live in Washington State and I know it usually takes 90 to 120 days to evict but I was wondering if it would be quicker because of the bankruptcy. Basically any info on my situation would be helpful and refinacing and/or continuing the payments is not an option. I need to foreclose. Please only knowledgable people on this subject answer. Thank you.

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Answer: Find an investor who can work a short sale with the lender. There's really no reason to leave the house just yet. Stay in it and save your money, for now. But be sure that it was included in the BR though. There is also a deed in lieu of foreclosure where you just quit claim the house over to the lender to save them the expense of foreclosure. Or, you can just walk away and ignore it. But talk to your BR attorney and look at your credit report before you decide. If your BR has been discharged, I can't see how you won't be on the hook for the mortgage. Good luck.

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Washington Dc Foreclosed Homes

You may wonder who pays the real estate agent when a foreclosed home is purchased. In these economic times there are many foreclosed properties on the market. There are many real estate investors who are buying up homes rehabbing them and selling them for a profit to first time home owners and even to other investors. Some investors are paying as little as thirty cents on the dollar.

They are buying from foreclosed properties or what is known in the real estate industry as an REO. This stands for real estate owned. These are properties that the bank owns because they were foreclosed upon. The buyer or person who took out the loan on the house failed to make the requisite payments and defaulted on the loan and now the bank owns the property.

The problem however is that banks are not in the real property selling business. Banks are in the business of lending money. Now we have banks with a large inventory of foreclosed properties, or REO's. Because of a very active and influential lobby group in Washington DC, banks cannot sell their foreclosed properties without a real estate agent.

So if you are looking to buy an REO for real estate investment purposes or if you are looking for a home to buy to live in you will have to go through a real estate agent and not deal directly with the bank. And in almost every case the agent will be paid his or her commission from the sale of the house which means that the bank will pay the commission.

However you need to understand that the agent commission is figured into the price of the property. So the buyer will not have to cut a check to the agent but the buyer will be paying for the commission in some form simply because the bank has added part if not all the commission to the sale of the property.

But usually when an agent is acting on the behalf of a bank he or she will not get as high a commission percentage as the agent would when working with a private buyer and not a bank which has more ability to negotiate a lower rate of commission because of the volume of houses they deal in. Many banks only work with a limited number of agents.

In fact when you contact an agent you might notice that some will list on their business cards that they are REO specialists. If you are looking for a foreclosed property you will want to work with an agent with this specialty. What has been happening recently also is that many banks are actually holding onto many foreclosed properties.

There rationale is that if they release their REO properties little by little they will be able to inflate the prices of their properties and thereby not lose as much money as they would have if they released all their houses at once. The government is frowning on this practice as it is creating a falsely inflated housing market.

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