What I Know About Foreclosure

This is probably a good life lesson in general, but I’ll put it in context here.
I was attending a local foreclosure auction recently when a man approached me asking where the auctions were held. I told him that he was in the right spot and he proceeded to tell me that he was trying […]

One of the most important pieces of advice you can heed if you are FACING foreclosure yourself is this:  get out while the getting is good.
Obviously none of us wants to leave our house.  I understand that.  I don’t mean to simplify the situation to make it sound like you can easily walk away from […]

It appears I’m not the only person on the net trying to provide good FREE advice. Foreclosure.com has just launched a free newsletter called “Investment Exchange.” I have not read it much yet, but I would like to recommend it to any of my readers who are looking for some good advice on the cheap.

It’s interesting to title a post this way because it sounds so elementary…. How do you bid on a foreclosure? Well, you go to an auction, and when they ask for bids, you bid.
Okay, so it’s not REALLY that simple though. Perhaps a good alternate title for this post would be, […]

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 […]

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, […]