Foreclosure Survival Guide, The: Keep Your House or Walk Away With Money in Your Pocket. This item is unavailable.Foreclosure Survival Guide, The: Keep Your House or Walk Away With Money in Your Pocket

Facing foreclosure? Put together a plan. Take action.

When you’re in foreclosure, there’s no time to waste. You need to know your options and The Foreclosure Survival Guide can help. You’ll learn how to:

• determine whether you should try to keep your house
• find loss mitigation programs that could help you save your home
• apply for mortgage relief from your lender
• bring your loan current in Chapter 13 bankruptcy, and
• if you can’t stay in your home, avoid unnecessary costs by filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

The powerful, yet practical advice in this edition also explains:

• your most important tool―the 120-day foreclosure waiting period before foreclosure starts
• how the foreclosure process works
• potential tax consequences, and more.

People affected by COVID-19 will also learn about moratoriums and how to address mortgage problems using the most current foreclosure avoidance options.

Amy Loftsgordon is a legal editor and writer at Nolo, focusing on foreclosure, debt management, and personal finance. She edits several Nolo books and is also the coauthor of The Foreclosure Survival Guide and Solve Your Money Troubles. Before joining Nolo, Amy worked in the areas of foreclosure and debt collections for over 15 years. Her broad experience includes helping people fight collection actions and enforcing debtors’ rights under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and other laws. As part of a national settlement involving the mortgage industry, she has also reviewed servicer records to uncover extensive credit reporting errors. Amy received a B.A. from the University of Southern California and a law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. She is licensed to practice law in Colorado.