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My husband and I are both 35. We have two small children, ages 5 & 2. We are a military family in the midst of the foreclosure process.

Our Story:

Our family has been facing the idea of foreclsoure for the last year, but it has now come to decison time....

Our brief story......My husband is currently on Active Duty in the Air Force. In June 2006, we were sent (called a PCS in the Air Force) to Las Vegas, NV. At that time, we purchased a house for 455,000. This was well in our means and affordable. Nothing large, 4 bedroom 3 bath. It was next to impossible to even get a house at that time. We put 10% down plus an additional 50,000 to finish the house (it was new construction and needed landscape, window treatments ,etc.). Now, 3 years later, our house is worth 212,000 - we have no choice but to "walk-away" from our dream home.

This past summer we once again moved for the military. This time to Kansas. We knew our future looked dismal. Fortunately, we were able to get renters in our house; however, they were paying less then what we owed our mortage company monthly. These renters have turned out to be bad news. They have been late on payments and are now leaving our house. Now, unable to get renters, plus knowing that we can not afford the additional payment of 3,000./month, we have no choice put to walk-away.

We have tried everything else we know of. Over the past year, we have sent several "hardship letters" to the bank. All of which have been denied. In addition, we even "qualified" for the "loan modification program" from the government. However, after two weeks in the program we were sent a letter stating we were denied for no reason. What a joke that was:)

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

A couple of updates....

1.  Two of our credit card companies slashed our limits from 20,000 to $500.00.  We knew this was coming so we were well prepared.  Can't say we really need a credit card except to book flights, hotels, etc.  So, we will just pay them off immediately and $500.00 should be just fine:)

2.  We recieved a letter from Wells Fargo stating that our loan file has been referred to their attorney to begin foreclosure proceedings.  I hope this means the process is continuing to move forward.

We are anticipating our Notice of Default in the next couple of weeks.  My understanding is that we will receive it once we are 90+ days late.  I will keep you posted.

2 comments:

  1. I hope it goes fast.

    G in NY

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  2. My husband and I are beginning this whole process and I truly feel for what you're going through. We plan to talk to the mortgage company as little as possible. Know that you're not alone... there are so many people out there in your situation. You would think that the Banks/Government would be listening now. What the Gov't offers just isn't enough and the homeowner is the one left holding the bag. But... it is what it is and as time goes on, foreclosures will go up. I don't feel bad about letting them have this house... I feel bad that we'll get hurt by it (credit score), but we won't lose sleep over it. These are rough times. We wish you well and hope that you'll try to look at it as a fresh start. That's what it is, you know.

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