Quick Rules about Preserving Your Home through Bankruptcy

When does filing bankruptcy save your home?  When is “straight bankruptcy”—Chapter 7—the right tool, and when do you need Chapter 13?  If your most important goal is to preserve your home, here’s how each kind of bankruptcy helps (or doesn’t help) in circumstances which may apply to you. 1. If you’re current on your home […]

Final Reasons to Get Legal Advice Before Deciding to Sell Your Home

Bankruptcy gives you a wide range of tools that can help you keep your home or sell it on your own schedule. Many of these tools provide surprising advantages for you. Especially when it comes to your home, know your options before you make decisions.   This is the last of a series of three […]

Know This Before Deciding to Sell Your Home

If you’re a homeowner who is selling his or her home for any of the following three reasons, think again: 1) you can’t afford the house payments, 2) you owe income taxes with a tax lien on your house, and/or 3) your mortgage modification application was rejected.   A couple blogs ago I told you […]

10 Big Reasons to Get Legal Advice about Bankruptcy Before Selling Your Home

The SINGLE overarching reason to get advice from a bankruptcy attorney before selling your home is to save money, possibly a great deal of money.  I’ll tell you ten ways to do so—three today and then the rest in a couple blogs next Tuesday and Thursday. 1.  Avoiding judgment liens:  If some creditor has sued […]

Get a “Fresh Start” in Bankruptcy for Your Assets, Not Just Your Debts

Bankruptcy helps both sides of your balance sheet. Getting a financial fresh start means not just getting relieved of your debts, but also protecting your essential assets. You can preserve this crucial benefit of bankruptcy by not selling, using up, or borrowing against your protected assets BEFORE the filing of your bankruptcy case. It is […]

What IS the “S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index”?

I got curious—I’ve been hearing about this index for years without knowing what it’s actually measuring. So I dug a little and here’s what I found out. At 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the last Tuesday of every month, Standard & Poor’s Financial Services releases the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. It’s actually not a single […]

Reasons to Do a Short Sale? Maybe Not

Besides avoiding a foreclosure and its hit on your credit record, you may have other sensible reasons for looking into a short sale of your home. Let’s consider those other reasons.

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