How to Purchase Your Home at a Cheaper Price
Posted on February 21, 2010
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First-time home buyers facing financial constraints sometimes abandon their plans to buy a home. By identifying a foreclosed property, you can often buy a house at below market prices and with little initial cash down payment. Foreclosures homes are simply homes that have been repossessed by the bank or by a government agency due to default in mortgage payment by the original owner. Because the bank or agency is usually eager to unload the property, there’s a real opportunity to buy the home at a cheap price. But you have to do a lot of pre-study and some hard work to succeed in buying a home at foreclosure.
Where can you find foreclosures? The Internet has made things easy. Several web sites offer complete lists of properties at all stages of foreclosure. Properties offered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development are also available on-line. Many lender web sites now include lists of foreclosed properties.
How do you buy one? HUD homes (Housing and Urban Development) require a written bid, and except for those homes offered through exclusive listing contracts, HUD sells homes only through sealed offers. You can use any HUD approved real estate agent to help you submit one. For bank foreclosures, the procedures may vary. Auctions are usually advertised in the newspaper with specifics as to how much of a deposit will be required by bank check to secure the bid the day of the auction.
Please bear in mind that foreclosures homes are usually sold in âas is” condition. It is therefore critically important that you thoroughly inspect the home before deciding to buy. Do not fail to calculate what repairs on the foreclosure may cost by obtaining a bid from a contractor. Strangely, in quite a few cases, when you add the cost of the repairs to the purchase price, you may end up paying much more than you originally envisaged.Â
Now let us examine buying pre-foreclosure homes which are lot cheaper then even foreclosure homes. The basic advantage in buying pre-foreclosure is buying the home at under market value price. If you are an investor in real estate, then buying pre-foreclosure is a windfall income. However, no matter investors or home buyers, you should first understand pre-foreclosure in order to avail the benefit.
Pre-foreclosure is the first stage of a home being foreclosed. This happens when the home owner has missed at least one payment and is now considered delinquent on the loan. The home owner receives a formal warning sent to the homeowner. The homeowner will be given a certain period to respond to the borrower. In this state, home owners are somewhat desperate and look for prospective home buyers to bail them out.
It should be understood that the home owner is passing through a bad patch in his life that has caused him to fall behind in his mortgage payments. Therefore, foreclosure home owners are very distressed when borrowers send in the warning of foreclosure. Remember, you as a home buyer can always help these foreclosure homeowners. If you are able to buy the foreclosure home with some amount above their mortgage balance, homeowners would settle part of their financial problem. Thus, buying pre-foreclosure is a win-win situation for both buyer and existing homeowner. You can get a under market value foreclosure home while homeowners could settle their unpaid home loan. However, the biggest challenge of buying pre-foreclosure is getting the attention of homeowner. Thus, acting fast and effectively will help you to reach pre-foreclosure homeowners.
Sarah Jose
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What should you do if your home price is now less than you paid for it and it is about to make you bankrupt?
The house was purchased in CA in 2003 and houses take about one year to sell even when the asking price is on the low end. Prices continue going down and if I can’t get rid of this house soon, I will have more in debt than in assets - essentially being bankrupt. Also I have a 5/1 ARM that will reset in 2009 (I had to refi in 2004 due to divorce). I won’t be able to afford the new payment. This is not an investment property; it is my primary residence and it was one of the cheaper ones in my area at the time I purchased it. What to do?? Thanks!
The first thing I would try is to renegotiate the mortgage with the current holder of that mortgage. The next thing would be to try to refinance. I don’t think either of this is likely to work, but it won’t hurt to try.
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Wait for the market to reverse or sell now and cut your loss. So many people thought the market always went up. You had to know it could drop one day!!
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If your ARM doesn’t reset until 2009, don’t panic yet. This housing mess can’t last forever, and if you’re making the payments fine now, then don’t do anything. Wait until it gets closer to adjustment time and then refi into a fixed rate. Perhaps by then, the market will have stabilized and you can put it on the market if you don’t want to live there anymore.
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I’m a Realtor
go to ur bank in person. explain what is happpening in ur life (cash wise).
have with u the sale prices of all the houses in ur area/subdivison , the number of houses on the market, the number of house sold last year. they can figure the rest.
ask to have the mortgage changed to a fixed lower rate 30 yr or less.
explain u would like to keep the house BUT !!.
if they say no ask for the manager , supervisor , local vice pres, president etc..
when u get the very last no. ask if they will accept a ’short sale with out recourse".
no! ask when they want the KEYS to the house.
visit daveramsey.com to learn the hard lessons coming ur way from others mistakes.
bankruptcy is expensive and will not save the house often
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ex credit junkie/slaver
biz owner 12th yr ‘home base i-net’
As a single guy, you can consider a room-mate or you can rent out your property and find a chipper rental for yourself.
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