Your House and Foreclosure

You can keep your house off a foreclosure home listing by consulting with your mortgage lender through a debt consultation. There are several points that will be discussed during this consultation which you must be ready to answer as truthfully and as comprehensively as possible.

First and foremost, you will be asked how you got to be on the foreclosure home listing in the first place. You will need to describe the circumstances that lead to your financial setback, including all the expenses that you may have spent for instead of the mortgage payments. If you lost your job or incurred medical expenses lately, mention these during the consultation, no matter how unpleasant.

The next step involves determining a way to use what you have to get off the foreclosure home listing. You need to declare all sources of income that you regularly receive including pension and benefits. If you have any investments or other assets, you also need to list these down.

Third, you need to find out what it is you must pay on a monthly basis before you can get off the foreclosure home listing. Do not include impulse buys and luxury items on this list; it has to be trimmed down to the barest essentials including food, utilities and transportation.

Fourth, you need to come up with a plan to get off the foreclosure home listing together with the debt consultant. If there are sources of financial assistance that you can think of, this would be the best time to use them. It is also during this time that you may want to consider selling your home so that you have enough to pay off debts and hopefully purchase a smaller, less expensive home to move into.