New Home Loan Waiting Periods After Bankruptcy, Short Sale, Foreclosure or Deed In Lieu of Foreclosure

Both my wife and I had financial problems in 2008 because we had a big mortgage and my wife was laid off. Due to that, our credit suffered greatly and we went into default with our mortgage. I had credit collectors calling me non stop, even at work. I am employed by a government agency and am out on the field most of the time and these credit collectors were constantly calling my superiors and leaving nasty messages that I was contemplating filing bankruptcy. My house went into foreclosure and my wife and I went into a rental. It was very difficult to have a management company to accept us due to our credit so we ended up renting a mobile home from an elderly lady. Last year we started to look for homes and found one we liked. I called a mortgage company and applied for a loan and was rejected because they told me my 3 year waiting period is not up. I told my wife that we had to wait another year. Then, my realtor called me and told me to contact Gustan Cho. Gustan Cho is a mortgage broker who has offices in Florida and Illinois. My realtor, Scott Johnson from Remax told me that Gustan Cho has helped people with really bad credit get loans and Gustan Cho just got a loan for one of his associates clients in Financing a Condotel in Hollywood, Florida. Scott told me that no lender in this country finances condo hotel loans and was really surprised that Gustan Cho was able to do so for his associates Hollywood, Florida condotel.

Skeptically, I contacted Gustan Cho through his website, GustanCho.com and spoke to him. The first thing he wanted was the paperwork by the county stating when the sheriff sale was or when the deed was transferred to the lender. That was no problem because my other loan officer, Mike, asked the same thing. I emailed Gustan Cho what he requested and he told me that I was in luck. I did not believe Gustan Cho at first but he swore to me that the foreclosure was a non issue but I still needed to qualify for the mortgage. Gustan Cho told me to go to GustanCho.com and apply online. My wife, Kate and I applied online and filled out the application. Within an hour or so after we submitted our application, Gustan Cho contacted Kate and told her we were preapproved and told us what the rate and term was for a $250,000 FHA loan. He then sent us our application to sign and we submitted all of our documents along with a real estate contract. We closed on our home exactly one month after submitting all of the documents to Gustan Cho. It has been almost a year since we are proud homeowners thanks to Gustan Cho.

Why did Gustan Cho get us a home loan when the other mortgage broker could not? The first mortgage broker was incompetent. Mike, the other broker (I will not use his last name or mortgage company because I think he was a newer loan officer and do not want to slander the kid or his company) did not read the foreclosure certificate correctly. The certificate drafted by the Broward County Circuit Court Clerk had two dates. One date was the date of the certificate of title and the other date, dated one year later, was the date of when my foreclosed loan was sold to Fannie Mae. Mike used the date the loan was sold to Fannie Mae and not the date of the certificate of title. Bottom line is that you as a borrower need to check with a competent loan officer like Gustan Cho. For us, it was a case of bad luck but got lucky because of our realtor Scott.

My wife and I have a Chapter 7 now discharged for 2 years. We rolled the house into the BK beofre ever going into FC and moved out of the house before house ever went into FC. I understand FHA is 2 years for BK and 3 years for FC. However, I have talked to my attorney on several occasions and he is very addiment that it is not considered a FC since it was dismissed at time of discharge. Please help clarify if this is considered a foreclosure or just a BK. Will lenders look at this as a BK or FC? We want to purchase a new home and it is now at the 2 years mark since BK discharge. If lenders look at this as a FC it will be about 2.5 more years, which is insane. 

Just wanted to share that I spoke with VA today and they do make some exceptions to the 2 year rule. This is due to the current environment.

if the home was part of BK then the seasoning of the foreclsoure ends with BK on conventional loans .
contact me direct for any info you might need on any types of loans, jumbo / conventional /va or FHA . we are a direct lender and will give home loans to people who had a foreclsoure yesterday ... we have no seasoning requirment as long as the fico is 670 and you have 20 percent down .
Mr Johnson i read your blog right above .. its not good to lead people on and make them think that you can lend at 3% ... there is no 3% in the market especially with bad credit. To raise any ones hope just to get them to call you and then sell them some thing else is called 'bait and switch .... honest good lenders do not indulge in these practices .

Wow! Nice article.
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