Use Chapter 13 To Delay Your Home Sale
Chapter 13 gives you much more power over your mortgage and other home-related debts so that you can sell your home when it's best for you.
Help Buy Time To Deal With Your Home Through Bankruptcy
Chapter 7 can help buy time to deal with some creditors or negotiate with others, which may help you keep your home.
Your Home Mortgage in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13
Here are 6 ways filing a Chapter 7 case can help you deal with your home lender and related debts, and 6 ways filing a Chapter 13 one can.
Many Ways to Buy Time for Your Vehicle and Home through Chapter 7
Chapter 7 buys you the crucial time you need in many situations when falling behind in your obligations related to your vehicle or your home.
Buy Time to Sell Your Home with Chapter 13
If you are behind on your mortgage, and are thinking of selling your home, you can often delay selling for many months or even for years.
Buy Much More Time for Your Home with Chapter 13
Filing a Chapter 13 case buys you time and flexibility for catching up on your mortgage arrearage. Lots more of both than in Chapter 7.
Buy Time for Your Home with Chapter 7
Filing a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case stops a foreclosure and buys some time to either arrange to keep the home or move in a peaceful way.
The Option of Surrendering Your Home Later in a Chapter 13 Case
As you decide whether to use the powerful tools of Chapter 13 to hold onto your home, it helps to know that you can later change your mind.
Protect Equity in Your Home Better with Chapter 13
If your home is exposed to your creditors and to the Chapter 7 trustee because it has too much equity, Chapter 13 can protect that equity.
Chapter 7 and Chapter 13–Selling Your Home in the Near Future and Protecting Its Increased Equity
Have the flexibility to sell your home when you want, giving time for it to add equity, while keeping creditors away from that equity.
Chapter 7 and Chapter 13–Selling Your Home with Equity but Have Lots of Other Debts
Protect the equity in your home from your creditors through either of the consumer bankruptcy options.
Mistakes to Avoid–Selling Your Home under Pressure instead of Waiting until a Better Time
Bankruptcy can buy you a few more months or even several years, so you can sell your home when you're financially and personally ready.
Making Sense of Bankruptcy: Does Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 Better Protect Your Home?
Although either kind of bankruptcy will stop an approaching foreclosure, which one should you choose?
Making Sense of Bankruptcy: Protecting Your Home from Foreclosure with the “Automatic Stay”
Either Chapter 7 or 13 will stop a foreclosure, even if your lender unintentionally or purposely proceeds with the foreclosure sale.
Making Sense of Bankruptcy: 5 More Powerful Ways Chapter 13 Saves Your Home
Here are 5 additional tools that come with Chapter 13, each one neatly solving a different challenge to your home.