Facing foreclosure First the good news

Sacramento CA – It takes a lender months to foreclose on your house. I have seen some lenders take 2-3 years to foreclose on a house. There are two reasons this is happening. First, there are a lot of people unable to make their payments. Second, the court system is backed up.

This gives you plenty of time to negotiate a loan modification.

Here are a few examples. I have seen many lenders wait up to a year to file for foreclosure. The homeowner stopped making their payments in January. Their lender didn’t file for foreclosure until October or November that year. In many situations, the lenders are waiting even longer than that. Obviously it all depends on the lender.

Here is an example of how the court system is backed up. Many lenders will file for foreclosure. In some situations, it takes a judge two to three months to respond to a request. The court system is only designed to handle so many cases.

There are simply too many cases being shoved into the system. Once a judge is overloaded, it takes longer for them to respond. The other thing is that the lawyers for the lenders are overloaded. Many of these law firms reduced staff during the last economic boom. Now they are having to crank up production. It is taking time for them to hire on and train new staff.

What does that mean to you? They are slow to file the foreclosure case. They don’t “push” the case to foreclose faster. I have heard of foreclosure cases in some states that would sit dormant for 1-2 years. The foreclosure lawyers simply weren’t filing the necessary paperwork. If you are facing this is good news.

You can stay in your home rent free for a long time. I saw one person move out of their house a couple of months after the foreclosure started. He couldn’t afford rent at his new house and was evicted. However, it took his lender over two years to foreclose on his house. He could have lived in his original house for free during those two years.

Hope this helps you in your situation. Would you like to discuss your situation with me? You can call e-mail me at 3hayes@sbcglobal.net or call me at 530-306-3316. Our Sacramento loan modification kit has the instructions you will need to get a loan modification approved.

We show you how to prove to your lender that they will make more money by accepting your loan modification versus foreclosing on the house. They’re in the business of making money, right? That is why this strategy works. Get more info on this strategy and the tools you need for a successful loan modification.

Thanks for reading this, John Hayes.

John is a real estate agent at RE/MAX Gold.

Phone: 530-306-3316. 3hayes@sbcglobal.net.

John Hayes specializes in loan modification assistance and short sales in Sacramento California. Sacramento Loan Modification Help, Sacramento Short Sales.