The Art Of War – Defending Your Home

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If the bank has entered foreclosure procedures because you are three months late on your mortgage payments, consider yourself at war. Suit up and call in the militia. You have now entered a battleground in which your castle is under siege.

Rather than physical confrontation, your job is to go to war using your intellect. It’s important to know the types of programs that are at your disposal. Put together a list of resources that you can tap into to help you win this battle.

3 Resources to Help You Defend Your Home:
1. Open Programs: There are open programs that are held in large venues – football stadiums and convention centers – in which homeowners can meet and discuss their situation with a bank representative.
2. Pre-suit mediation/mediation: Foreclosure mediation is a court-administered process done when there is an open foreclosure case in the courts. This means the bank’s attorneys file a complaint with the court because the borrower has not paid, and is in default of the mortgage loan. Just because the client may be behind in their payment, does not mean they have a court case against ...
... them. If a client has a case and that property is their homestead, mediation is an option in most cases. There are, however, other pleadings a foreclosure defense attorney would recommend filing prior to requesting mediation.
3. Government Sponsored Programs: Conduct research into the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sponsored programs. On its website, hud.org, an “Avoiding Foreclosure” page lists information on various programs available to homeowners who are ‘under water” on their mortgage payments.

Remember, when you enter into any of the above, the parties who talk to you and provide you with information do not have an interest in saving your home; only to process the file. This means that homeowners without legal counsel are ill advised.

They are freighted and put in rooms/situations in which no one is properly advising or advocating for them. In fact, we have heard of situations in which clients have been rushed out of foreclosure mediation into an ambulance, because the client was having chest pains that developed into a heart attack.

You win by getting a foreclosure defense attorney whose job it is to help you save your home. We understand how to work with the lenders and we are the ones who handle the high stress of dealing with the lenders and the attorneys in submission, negotiation and review of a modification.

Your home is your castle, and is generally one of your most important material assets. Protect it by learning the art of war to defend your home.

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