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Default, foreclosure, and what to do if you can’t make your payments
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!
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
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
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
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.
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 […]