Foreclosure Prevention Workshop - We're Here to Help

Don't go it alone.

If you or someone you care about is struggling to make mortgage payments and facing the possibility of foreclosure, please make time to attend this informative workshop. The workshop is designed to provide homeowners with information needed to evaluate the many options available in these uncertain economic times.

This is an opportunity to have your questions and concerns addressed with discretion, competence and compassion.

Foreclosure Prevention Workshop - Sponsored by Prudential Rand Realty

When: 6-9:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 25
Where:The Comfort Inn, 425 E. Route 59, Nanuet, NY


If you'd like more information, you are welcome to give me a call on 845-641-8613 or send me an email at donna.cox@prudentialrand.com.

Donna Cox
Broker Associate
Prudential Rand Realty
845-641-8613

Here are additional details....

For those at risk of facing foreclosure, a workshop Tuesday will include congressional representatives, nonprofit housing counselors and Rockland County's district attorney, sheriff and county clerk.

The free event will have two panel sessions focusing on fraud preventionand foreclosure prevention. A third session will have comments from local, state and federal officials. A question-and-answer session will follow. The event is from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at the Comfort Inn in Nanuet.

Rockland District Attorney Thomas Zugibe will moderate the first panel, which will inform homeowners how to protect themselves against fraud and scams when seeking help. The panel also will explain how the county clerk and Sheriff's Department can help homeowners.

The second session will offer practical information on foreclosure-prevention options such as loan modifications and short sales.

That panel includes representatives from the Rockland Housing Action Coalition, the Legal Aid Society of Rockland County and HOGAR Inc., as well as Sean M. Moss, the New York/New Jersey director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The panel plans to explain the steps of the counseling process, encourage homeownersto schedule appointments and explain a homeowner's rights and expectations if doing a short sale to avoid foreclosure. Karen Oates, president of the Mental Health Association of Rockland County Inc., also will speak on how to prepare children and adults for a foreclosure.

"We are creating a safe, sanctioned atmosphere where they can find answers ..." said Greg Rand, managing partner with Prudential Rand Realty, the event's sponsor. "We hope to put a compassionate face on a daunting process and help homeowners take action."

Journal News, November 22, 2008