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What Are the Differences Between Foreclosure and Short Sale?

Once you fall behind your mortgage payments, you would be confronted with certain repercussions. For one, you might be on the verge of losing your home. Other home owners in a difficult position like you are in dire need of rescue on what to do to save their home or at least be free from debt. Your option then is to sell your home. But with the pre-condition of financial hardship, your choices are narrowed down between two - foreclosure or short sales.
Either option would do your credit standing some harm. On the other hand, these two processes have distinct attributes per se. Before you can enter either transaction with your lender, it is best to know the real current status of your mortgage. Consult your broker so as you can immediately advance to steps regarding your home. Meanwhile, below are some of the differences between foreclosure and short sale. Carefully take into account their respective details so that you can better understand which one you can opt to go for.
Foreclosure is commonly dubbed as the worst option a home owner is left with in case the lender wants to take the house. The expenses and stress involved in this process can be very detrimental. For one, the lender can request for a court-assisted judgment against you for the arrearages you were not able to pay. You might also be asked to pay for the costs accumulated by the lender when the foreclosure action was pursued. Ultimately, your credit rating will be tarnished for a long time. It would be very hard to recover.
Apparently, the disadvantages a foreclosure can bring you are almost endless. That is why a lot of home owners try to rescue their homes and crediting status by presenting their lenders with a proposal for entering short sales. The crucial part though is convincing your lender to consent such sale. Remember that this sales endeavor would require your lender to accept remuneration way less than what you owed. Thus, you must have proficient negotiating skills to make your lender agree.
While there might not be deliberate credit advantage by going through short sales, there are other forms of benefits you can have. There are very rare cases wherein lenders do not deliver promptly or at all the negative details to the credit reporting bureaus. Some fortunate delinquent borrowers have only seen their scores decrease by only 100 points. Also according to Fannie Mae guidelines, home owners who went through this option were allowed to purchase another home with relatively decent rates within two years. Those who went through foreclosure would have to wait five to seven years before they would be presented with reasonable mortgage rates and useful financing.
Although your credit report would reflect the process as a pre-foreclosure process with an attempt to redeem your property, a deficiency judgment would also appear in your credit record given particular circumstances. For one, this process entails your responsibility to compensate for the discrepancy from the sale, which most lenders require by the way. If you cannot pay the outstanding balance within the time frame your lender set, negative data would put in your record.
With the conditions existing in both options, neither seem to better than the other. In order for you to be saved in going through such set ups, prioritize organizing your finances. Keep track of your payments to protect your credit score and property ownership.

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