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MLS# T3176195
Pre-Construction. This split bedroom home features a large covered porch and foyer. Easy entertaining with an open floor plan and kitchen which includes granite counters, all wood cabinets, an island and also a large pantry. Property is located...
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6003 HARWELL ESTATES DR, DOVER
MLS# T3150424
If you’re looking for a Lutz home with land, this is for you. Don't forget the huge workshop it could store the mower, tractors, supplies, or could be just an oversized workshop. Great opportunity with lots of potential. This beautiful country...
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2827 MAX SMITH RD, LUTZ
MLS# U8000146
Expand the living space by opening the sliders from the living room and den and step on to the tiled wrap around balcony where you can sit back and enjoy expansive views of the South Course. Master bedroom features 2 queen pillow-top beds and...
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36750 US HIGHWAY 19 N #17213, PALM HARBOR
MLS# T3165460
The tree lined private driveway welcomes you to exquisite landscaping and a nostalgic front porch. The grand foyer boasts soaring two story wood ceilings with incredible natural light, formal living room and fireplace. Two bedrooms share an...
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3213 POLO PL, PLANT CITY
Alternatives to Forclosure
Escape Foreclosure! (Foreclosure Options)
If you have experienced increased expenses, reduced income, or other hardship and are having trouble making your mortgage payment, you are not necessarily doomed to the devastation of foreclosure. Here are six options you may have to keep your house, if you cannot make your current mortgage payments, are about to default on your mortgage, or feel like you are going into “pre-foreclosure” status:
1. Refinance: You simply get a new mortgage loan and pay off your old (unaffordable) loan with the new one.
2. Repayment Plan: You work with your lender on structuring a repayment plan you can live with – one that lets you catch up on your missed payments by paying more than one full payment per month until you are current on your mortgage.
3. Forbearance Program: You work with your lender to delay or to suspend all (or a part) of your normal monthly payment for an agreed-upon period of time. You may roll the “suspended” payments into the existing mortgage loan, or you may make those payments as part of a repayment plan or loan modification, as agreed between you and your bank(s).
4. Loan Modification: You work with your lender to change the original terms of your mortgage loan. You may be able to change your interest rate, the duration of the loan, or the amount of the loan (adjusted by the amount that you are behind in paying).
5. Short Refinance: You work with your lender to obtain an adjustment or “forgiveness” of the actual principal portion of the balance. This may be used with Forbearance and Repayment Plans.
6. Bankruptcy: You may change your original terms of your mortgage loan as part of a bankruptcy filing, order, reorganization, or repayment plan.
All of these methods require you to be able to make a payment that the Bank agrees with and to make it on-time every month.
If you have encountered a hardship, income reduction, or increase in expenses that prohibits you from participating successfully in any of these programs or that will simply delay the inevitability of foreclosure because you’re actually unable to make acceptable payments, even under modification or other attempt to adjust your mortgage burden, you may need to consider a Short Sale to escape foreclosure and its devastating effects on your life.
For more information on what a Short Sale is and how it can help you, please feel free to call 813-671-6657 for a free consultation or email: [email protected]