What You Need To Know
Looking to buy a new home but worried you won’t be able to afford the monthly mortgage payment that comes with it? Sellers (i.e., banks or government agencies in the case of foreclosures) prefer working with buyers who they already know can qualify for a mortgage. Foreclosures are considered bad assets to banks and the longer they have them the more they want to get rid of them.
You’d have to understand what it means to buy this home now, if it has no equity, and wait to buy it out of foreclosure when the lender has canceled the mortgage. In the case of mortgage possession or repossession, if the home is sold or auctioned for a price that exceeds the loan balance, those funds are returned to the consumer.
Don’t skimp on the process and take time to thoroughly investigate the house before you make an offer. It’s a …