In a short sale, you are asking your mortgage company to accept the proceeds of the sale as full settlement of your debt. This is better than a foreclosure, but is still a partial forgiveness of the debt. A less damaging option may be to convince the bank to allow the sale and give you a loan for the difference. Unless you can afford to keep the house, you are better of with one of these options.
Since listing change between a short sale and an REO it isn’t really practical to know what offers submitted at short sale were vs. when they sell as a bank owned but I know from the few times I’ve participated in the short sale and it fell through I saw the same house sell for substantially less when it went back to the bank. The reluctance by banks to accept short sales lies in many different areas, including mortgage insurance rules, write-offs, borrower’s ability to pay (even if they are not) and the sheer number of in-default loans they are dealing with. The best answer would be one given by one of the big banks but they refuse to explain these situations to us.
In a short sale, you are asking your mortgage company to accept the proceeds of the sale as full settlement of your debt. This is better than a foreclosure, but is still a partial forgiveness of the debt. A less damaging option may be to convince the bank to allow the sale and give you a loan for the difference. Unless you can afford to keep the house, you are better of with one of these options.
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In a short sale, you are asking your mortgage company to accept the proceeds of the sale as full settlement of your debt. This is better than a foreclosure, but is still a partial forgiveness of the debt. A less damaging option may be to convince the bank to allow the sale and give you a loan for the difference. Unless you can afford to keep the house, you are better of with one of these options.
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Since listing change between a short sale and an REO it isn’t really practical to know what offers submitted at short sale were vs. when they sell as a bank owned but I know from the few times I’ve participated in the short sale and it fell through I saw the same house sell for substantially less when it went back to the bank. The reluctance by banks to accept short sales lies in many different areas, including mortgage insurance rules, write-offs, borrower’s ability to pay (even if they are not) and the sheer number of in-default loans they are dealing with. The best answer would be one given by one of the big banks but they refuse to explain these situations to us.
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In a short sale, you are asking your mortgage company to accept the proceeds of the sale as full settlement of your debt. This is better than a foreclosure, but is still a partial forgiveness of the debt. A less damaging option may be to convince the bank to allow the sale and give you a loan for the difference. Unless you can afford to keep the house, you are better of with one of these options.
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