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Default, foreclosure, and what to do if you can’t make your payments

Posted by admin on June 11th, 2007

If you’re having trouble making your payments, there are very few people you can trust.  Believe me, I know.  In this case, you may be overextended because your interest rate jumped, because you lost you job, because a family member is ill or incapacitated… the list goes on and on.  What I can tell you […]

iamfacingforeclosure IS BACK!

Posted by admin on June 8th, 2007

So apparently Casey Serin has got his site back up and running due to some manner of stipulation in a publishing contract. Given that publishing contract, I am left wondering if his site will actually provide any more useful information from here on out. After all, if his publisher wants him blogging to […]

Casey Serin and iamfacingforeclosure.com

Posted by admin on June 6th, 2007

So it has come to my attention that some time recently, a kid named Casey Serin had to take down his site iamfacingforeclosure.com. Of course, this site is not really about foreclosure itself, so I don’t have a whole lot to say about it. What I DO think is worth commenting on is […]

Foreclosures 101

Posted by admin on June 4th, 2007

There are a lot of tricky nuaces to buying foreclosures and there are an even greater number of “creative” options available for capitalizing on a foreclosure before it actually happens. A list of some of the things that can trip you up when buying at auction would include: junior liens, tax liens, civil judgements, […]

Just walk away

Posted by admin on May 25th, 2007

So as I mentioned in this post, when I went to bid on my first foreclosure, a strange thing happened to me. I was offered $5k just to go back home. Now, I may be young, but I’m not too young to know that ‘free money’ doesn’t exist and if something seems to […]

I didn’t land on foreclosures, foreclosures landed on me.

Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2007

When I started learning about foreclosures, it was actually not at my own direction. I was sailing around the Caribbean on a 60 ft Swan (nice sail boat), when I found out that my Captain had worked in the foreclosure business. Well, not exactly. He had actually had a business buying tax […]

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My name is Aaron Biek. I live in Charlotte, NC and am self-educated in real estate foreclosures. Because I consider most of the foreclosure deals out there unethical, I am unable to participate in them. I therefore created this blog in the hopes I that could educate more people about how all of this stuff works.