Question by love the journey: How does home foreclosure work?
If you fail to make your mortgage payments, can the bank garnish your wages for the payments?Or do they just take repossession of the home and auction it off themselves?And if they just auction it and can’t sell it for enough to cover the remaining mortgage amount, can they come back and sue you for that, even if you no longer have access to the home?I’m asking because I need to know…if a person decided to deliberately stop making payments on their home mortgage because the home will not sell on the market quick enough and they have to move out of state, what are the repurcussions?(Besides bad credit)The goal is to just get rid of the house, regardless of the loss in profit from the sale of it, and regardless of how it will effect the homeowner’s credit.Please provide any information pertaining to this.
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Answer by Rex
They don’t garish wages for it duing foreclosure, although I would think they can after the fact.
They take possession and are presently simply selling most of them. They sell them short and while they can get hte rest of the money out of you they typically have not been. Altough typically people work with them, your idea is not typical and they very well may sue you for the rest of the money, plus all of the expenses. They would win, as you obviously did borrow their money and you obviously did not repay the money that you took.
You are better off contacting them and telling them that you want to default and try a “short sale”. If you are working with them they agree to take a loss for a specific amount and you sell the house for that. While it is not that great for your credit they will leave you alone.
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