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Pre Foreclosures & Short Sales In Michigan

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Are you behind or about to be behind on your Mortgage Payments?

In Michigan it is more and more common for homeowner to find himself/herself in a hardship situation when they are no longer able to make their mortgage payments, due to a variable interest rate that has changed, divorce, illness, job loss or a variety of other reasons.

At MARK Z. & Associates we work with your lender on your behalf to set a price that will get your home sold quickly. This requires your lender to take a discount on what is owed them. Sometimes your lender will take as much as 20% or more less than what is owed. If you have a FHA mortgage, your lender will send out an appraiser and can accept approximately 82% less than the appraised value.

Why would a lender take less than what is owed to them? Because a short sale will save your lender the costly process of getting the home back in Foreclosure. The foreclosure process in Michigan is very costly for a lender. Lenders do not want to become property managers. Lenders want to lend money. While the house is left vacant, the pipes may freeze throughout the cold winter months, the house could be vandalized, and usually the home will sell for much less than what it could sell for in the short sale process.

We are a team of real estate professionals who specialize in working with mortgage companies to provide pre-foreclosure solutions to homeowners who are in this very situation. We work with your lender on your behalf to list and sell your home.

The benefit of a Short Sale over a Foreclosure.

If you participate in a short sale, and your agent is successful in getting the bank to accept short of what is owed to them on your mortgage, your credit will only show 30-60-90 day late payments, contrary to an actual foreclosure on your record.

Your lender pays our commission and also your closing costs.

You need to know that Michigan is on the top of the list for number of foreclosures in the country and because of that, you must act quickly.

Required Documents to complete a Short sale

The first thing you should do to start a short sale process is call your lender and ask for the loss mitigation department and ask for a short sale package. Sometimes you must stop making payments for a month or two before your lender will begin to take you serious. Below is the package we must compile before your lender will even begin to entertain a short sale.

  • Authorization to release information form
  • Hardship Letter
  • Financial Worksheet
  • Listing agreement
  • Copies of tax returns (last 2 years for everyone on the note)
  • Copies of all bank statements  (last 2 months for everyone on the note)
  • Copies of pay stubs (last 2 pay periods )
  • Signed purchase offer (MARK Z. & Associates will get) 
  • HUD 1 closing sheet (MARK Z. & Associates will get)
  • CMA with pictures (MARK Z. & Associates will do)
  • Application for Pre-Foreclosure sale program (Only if FHA , HUD form 90036)
  • Homeownership counseling form (Only if FHA , HUD form 90038)

If there is a homeowner assoc. you may have to pay for resale certificate (About 195.00)

Need to have a copy of your property survey ready (Title co. will want it)

If you are facing this trouble, please gather this information and call us today. We will have a member of our team call you today.

Call 248-675-6908 now for immediate answers to any of your Short Sale Questions...

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Much has been written about the financial woes and soaring unemployment rates of metropolitan Detroit as automakers struggle to recover from the recession of 2001.  Michigan, and the Detroit metro area, currently has literally thousands of foreclosed properties.  Many consider Detroit the foreclosure capital of the world right now. 

A big reason for the foreclosures can be traced to the large decline in the manufacturing employment. Homeowners in Michigan are giving back their homes to the bank for a number of reasons.  Some have lost their job and can't afford to keep making their mortgage payment because of the lack of income and some homeowners got involved in mortgage programs that ended up not being in their best interest.

Layoffs of carmakers� executives have inevitably led to foreclosed homes among the gated communities and estates of the desirable suburbs in Oakland County and along the east river toward Grosse Pointe, in historic Indian Village, and in Northwest Detroit, in Palmer Woods, Sherwood Forest and other attractive neighborhoods.  Bank foreclosures have touched the wealthy and the poor alike. Everybody knows someone who foreclosed on their house.  Until recently appraisers never used foreclosures as comparable sales to justify a price.  Now they are looked at like any other sale because of how common they are.

Michigan Bank Foreclosures & Government Foreclosed Houses, Federal Homes, and Distressed Properties are all at your fingertips here. Foreclosures, HUD, VA, and other government property home lists and listings are represented here.

For more information about the short sale or foreclosure process in Michigan, contact Michigan Foreclosure Specialist MARK Z. & Associates.