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Welcome > For Sellers > Alternatives to Foreclosures ...

You Have Options and Alternatives When It Come Foreclosure. 

THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES TO FORECLOSURE. You have options if you owe more than your home is worth and you need to sell, no matter what the reason. We are real estate brokers and Realtors® and have vast amounts of knowledge and experience with short sales negotiations. Our marketing expertise will get your home the maximum amount of exposure necessary to bring the right buyer. When your home is under contract, we have a team of attorneys working on your behalf to help you get the outcome that you require. 

What are the warning signs of foreclosure?


Life changes are often a contributing factor to foreclosure – especially unexpected changes that affect your finances, such as: 

  • Loss of employment or reduction of hours
  • Major illness or injury
  • Divorce or separation 
  • Death of a spouse 



Financial Warning Signs:

  • Mortgage payment changes (changes in interest rate, property taxes, homeowner insurance, and/or other mortgage loan changes, etc.)
  • Maxing out credit cards 
  • Using credit to pay for day-to-day expenses, such as groceries, utilities, etc. 
  • Being unable to pay your bills on time
  • Paying only the minimum amount on credit cards 
  • Applying for new credit cards after maxing out on existing ones 
  • Having to choose which bills and/or living expenses to pay first



Missed a Payment?

The Delinquency Cycle of a Mortgage Loan

Arizona Law does not mandate that the lender wait 90 days to file a Notice of Trustee's Sale.  If a private investor wishes to foreclose, he can do so on the 1st day of the delinquency.



 

What happens if I do not make my payment on the due date?

 

The loan servicer expects to receive your payment by the due date.  If the servicer has not received your payment by that date, it is delinquent.  Most loans have a Grace Period, which is the length of time between the due date and the date when late fees begin. The promissory note contains the due date.   

 

What happens after that?

 

The Collections Department may start contacting you between the 16th and the 30th of the month if the payment is still due.  

What is the Collections Department?

The Collections department is a division of loan servicer that is responsible for obtaining and applying payments due on mortgage loan.  


The Collections Department will contact you to collect past due payments.

 

If the Collections Department has not been able to collect or make acceptable payment arrangements with you, your account may be referred to the LOSS MITIGATION DEPARTMENT/ Home Preservation/ or Work Out Department. 

What is Loss Mitigation?

 

This is a division of the loan servicer that will work with you to establish an acceptable plan to get you back on track with your mortgage payments. 


You will begin to receive letters from your lender/servicer requesting that you call them. ALWAYS OPEN ANY LETTERS FROM YOUR LENDER/SERVICER. ALWAYS ANSWER and RETURN THEIR CALLS!  This is the period where you may have other options available to you. The Servicer / Lender will make many attempts to contact you.

CALL YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY/SERVICER IF YOU KNOW YOU’LL BE

LATE AND ALWAYS RETURN THEIR CALLS!! 

What if I am More than 30 Days Late?

Although you are late from 1st day after the due date, the COLLECTIONS, sometimes referred to as the LOAN SERVICING Department, of your mortgage company will start calling you between the 16th and the 30th of the month.  

 

What is the Collections or Loan Servicing Department?


Collections is a loan servicing division of the mortgage company that accepts and applies your payment each month, tracks any late fees, monitors and when included in your payment, will pay the taxes and insurance when due.  They will contact you when payments are missed.   The “collections” or “loan servicing” department will start calling you to collect the past due payment.

 

What happens after I am 60 days late?

 

On the 61st day, the loan payment is 2 months past due, and if the Collections department has not been able to collect or make acceptable payment arrangements with you, your account will be turned over to the LOSS MITIGATION DEPARTMENT also know as HOME PRESERVATION or WORKOUT DEPARTMENT.


Note: Servicers / Lenders may send someone out to physically inspect the property, to verify that the borrower has not abandoned the property (sometimes between 45-60 days).  This is a normal process do not be alarmed.
 

What happens after I am 90 days late?

 

On the 91st day (in AZ), a third party TRUSTEE takes over your delinquent account.  The Trustee will send a “Notice of Trustee Sale” stating that the property will be sold 90 days from the date the Notice was filed and recorded.  There will be a notice published in the newspaper once a week for four weeks.



OPTIONS TO KEEP YOUR HOME

 

(Loss-mitigation options available in your situation depend on the investor, the type of loan you have, and what the loan servicer is able to negotiate.)

 

Refinance - A new mortgage on the loan with no change in ownership.  The ability to refinance a loan requires that the borrower not be delinquent and that there be equity in the home. 


Repayment Plan – Plan where delinquent payments are distributed over a period of time, usually no more than12 months.  The monthly amount is added to usual mortgage payment resulting in a higher payment until the delinquent amount has been repaid.  This repayment plan brings the account up-to-date within a specified period.

 

Loan Modification - Past-due interest and escrow to the unpaid principal balance, which is then re-amortized over a new term. Rate adjustments, term extensions, and principal forgiveness may be considered.  Loan modification results in permanent, contractual changes in one or more mortgage terms. 


Additional loan fees may be involved based on the type of the mortgage a customer holds and on the specific investor.  A loan modification immediately brings the account up-to-date.

 

Forbearance – A temporary reduction or suspension of a borrower’s payment. The repayment plan is based upon the customer’s financial situation. Because of long-term implications, this option is used only in severe hardship cases.

 

THE MAKING HOME AFFORDABLE PLAN      

 

The Making Home Affordable (MHA) plan is part of President Obama’s broad, comprehensive strategy to get the economy and the housing market back on track. The plan potentially could help up to 9 million families restructure or refinance their mortgages to avoid foreclosure. 


The Home Affordable Modification and Home Affordable Refinance are the parts of MHA that use refinancing and loan modifications to reduce monthly mortgage payments to a level that borrowers can afford today and into the future. 

 

The refinancing option is only available for conforming loans owned or securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Most conventional loans including prime, subprime, adjustable, loans owned by lenders and loans in securities are eligible for a Home Affordable Modification. The Administration is working with Congress to enact legislation that will allow FHA, VA and USDA to offer modifications consistent with Making Home Affordable. Currently loans insured or guaranteed by these agencies are being modified under other programs that enable

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Foreclosure Information Booklet


Another alternative to foreclosure is to do a short sale on your home.  For more information regarding short sales, please don't hesitate to contact us here at Desert Premier Realty Group. Call us at 602-476-2727 or fill out the form below and we will contact you shortly. 



 

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About Appraisals >Fair Market Value

What is the best price for a piece of real estate? Mortgage lenders, appraisers, and real estate brokers use what is called the "fair market value" (FMV). FMV has been defined as "the price that a buyer is willing to pay and the seller is willing to accept, when both parties are knowledgeable about the property and neither is under any time pressure to buy or sell". Sounds great, but how is this price determined?

The starting point for determining a fair price may be an opinion of the value or "comparative market analysis". Such an analysis uses information on similar properties which are: 1) currently for sale, 2) already sold, or 3) expired properties (those which did not sell). Local, national and international trends and market conditions must also be evaluated.

By comparing similar properties in each of the three categories and the market conditions, appraisers, lenders and agents come very close to the maximum price that buyers would be willing to pay for a house.

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