Update on the Cash Distribution to Foreclosed Homeowners from the National Mortgage Fraud Settlement
What qualifies you to receive the $1,500 to $2,000 restitution payment for losing your home to foreclosure? More clues have just become available.
Getting Just Enough Help for Your Home through Chapter 7
When does filing a Chapter 7 "straight bankruptcy" case help you enough so that you don't need a 3-to-5-year Chapter 13 case?
Reasons to Do a Short Sale? Maybe Not
Besides avoiding a foreclosure and its hit on your credit record, you may have other sensible reasons for looking into a short sale of your home. Let's consider those other reasons.
Short Sales: Seldom Easy and Often Not What You Expected
A short sale of your home is sometimes your best alternative. But short sales often do not successfully close, and even when they do you may get a rude surprise.
The Bankruptcy Consequences of the National Mortgage Settlement
The bankruptcy world played a quiet but significant role in bringing about this controversial $26 billion settlement. So, fittingly, the settlement terms require the banks to make significant changes in their behavior in bankruptcy court.
National Mortgage Settlement to Hand Out Cash to Foreclosed-Out Homeowners
Most of the $26 billion or so in this national settlement is designed to help current homeowners keep their homes. But $1.5 billion of it will go to about 750,000 who have already lost their homes to foreclosure. That’s about $2,000 each.
The National Mortgage Settlement’s Actual Terms Finally Released
The settlement documents of the deal that was announced more than a month ago were finally completed and filed at court on Monday, March 12. They catalog page after page of serious wrongdoing by the banks in their servicing of mortgages and processing of foreclosures.
