There are numerous ways to avoid an impending foreclosure. Educating yourself on the following options may help you find your way through the legal thicket of mortgage agreements without incurring the expense of an attorney. 1. The Short Sale A short sale, in real-estate terms, is one in which the price at which the house [...]

Recently, many homeowners in trouble have caught on to the less than scrupulous practices of lenders, and contested their foreclosures. Of course, the legal proceedings of foreclosure can seem a very tangled web to the uninitiated, and so it’s important to ensure that you be meticulous in following the right procedure. Prior to contesting a [...]

A mortgage, by definition, is a secured loan that has to be used to buy immovable property – namely a house, building, or piece of land. Since the property-price slump brought about by the global economic crisis, there’s been a large-scale upsurge of home mortgage applications. The reasons are twofold. Firstly, it’s a buyer’s market [...]