Mortgage Short Sale Can Save Your Credit
Almost everything revolves around credit these days. People who don’t have any credit can attest to that. Many of these people will have no chance of renting a hotel room or a car or even renting an apartment. But it doesn’t end there! Some people with bad credit can’t even get a particular job. If you’re a homeowner, who is in financial disarray, mortgage short sale can save your credit and is worth investigating going the extra mile to avoid any kind of foreclosure or bankruptcy.
The mortgage short sale may or may not be something you’ve ever heard of. Although it was created long ago, he was somehow put to rest and resurfaced in recent years. It was designed to relieve homeowners of their mortgage responsibility if they fell into financial trouble.
Homeowners whose homes are mortgaged above the current market value may qualify for this type of sale. There really are no catches involved in this solution, only some prerequisites that must be met. To begin with, the mortgage must be in arrears. And it goes without saying that you cannot have any savings. The reason being is that your banker or mortgage lender will have to accept a loss due on the loan.
In most cases, the homeowner will be released of any responsibility on the home once it is sold. In order to apply for a short sale, you must request the short sale package from your bank or mortgage lender. This package requires you to gather some pertinent information, attach certain important documentation and return it to the lender with hopes that it will be approved.
It is advisable to all homeowners to hire a real estate agent, who agrees to a lower compensation than usual, to help with all the steps involved in such a sale. Lenders are more willing to negotiate with a real estate professional rather than solely with the individual homeowners. Of course, a realtor has more selling power than any homeowner can have, as they have the power of the MLS at their disposal. This can often result in selling the home much quicker.
With respect to saving your credit, a short sale appears differently on a credit report than does a foreclosure. After having successfully done a short sale, your credit report would read “pre-foreclosure in redemption” and would reduce your FICO score by about 100-200 points.
In the case of a foreclosure, your report would read “debt discharged due to foreclosure” and would have a huge impact of a 300 point reduction on your score. This is not something to be taken lightly.
This would be the difference of rebuilding your name and your life much faster as with the latter which would follow you for approximately ten years. Remember, not having credit means that you are limited in making any purchases that would exceed the amount of liquid cash you have at that moment. It means that instead of leasing or buying a new car and making monthly payments, you would have to come up with the total amount of the sale price in cash, in one lump sum… Something that most people are not able to do.
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Fred Weaver is a founding co-owner of Group 46:10. He has been working in the financing/real estate business for over 7 years. Fred began his real estate career by working for a large wholesale bank as a processor and rate/lock specialist for home mortgages. After 2 years in the business, Fred transferred from the banking side of home loans to the mortgage side. While on the mortgage side of financing, Fred gained experience originating mortgages and processing files for Morgan Capital of Arizona, Inc.
Kevin is a founding co-owner of Group 46:10. He began working in the real estate business in 2007 after spending 8 years working in the finance industry for companies such as Bank One, Green Tree Financial, & GE Capital.


