Safeguarding Your Home from Foreclosure: Your Lifeline to Financial Security
Are you facing the daunting threat of foreclosure, uncertain about the fate of your cherished home? Discover the lifelines that can safeguard your home from foreclosure, while helping you regain control and protect your most precious possession. Explore our comprehensive guide and find the path that suits your unique situation, ensuring a new beginning for you and your home. Your sanctuary deserves the best.
Avoid foreclosure
Sell for a higher price
Get the most out of your equity
Rebuild your credit
No closing costs
No commissions
In this comprehensive guide, we will explore seven potential lifelines to safeguard your haven, each with its own set of advantages and challenges. These lifelines offer you a chance to regain control and protect what means the most to you.
Loan Modification
While a loan modification can provide temporary relief, it often leaves you in a sea of uncertainty. Negotiating with your lender to adjust the terms of your mortgage can be a nerve-wracking process. There is no guarantee that your lender will agree to your proposed changes, and missed payments may still accumulate, pushing you closer to foreclosure.
Refinance
Refinancing might seem like a lifeline, but if you’re faced with a higher interest rate due to credit issues, it can potentially sink your financial ship. Additionally, the initial costs and fees associated with refinancing can exacerbate your financial burden. Proceed with caution.
Bridge Loan
A bridge loan can provide temporary relief by granting you more time to sell your home. However, this route comes with its own set of challenges. If your current home doesn’t sell swiftly, you might find yourself juggling two mortgages, which can be financially strenuous. High interest rates and fees associated with bridge loans can also eat into your equity.
Short Sale
A short sale can save your credit from the complete devastation of foreclosure, but it’s not without its drawbacks. You’ll need your lender’s approval for the sale, which can introduce another layer of uncertainty into the process. Your credit score will still bear the scars of this financial hardship, though not as severely as with foreclosure.
Listing with an Agent
Listing your home with a real estate agent can require patience. The traditional selling process can be time-consuming, and agent commissions and other expenses can chip away at your potential proceeds. However, a fair market price can be achieved through this route.
Selling to a Cash Buyer
Selling to a cash buyer offers a rapid and hassle-free solution to foreclosure. While the offer you receive may be slightly lower than the market value, the speed of the transaction can outweigh this difference. This lifeline ensures you have cash in hand quickly to address your financial woes.
Take Over Payments
Having someone take over your mortgage payments subject to the existing financing can save your credit from the scars of foreclosure. This lifeline allows a buyer to absorb the responsibility for your mortgage payments. However, it hinges on finding a trustworthy buyer who can manage the payments.
We Buy Homes in Harris County – Cash and Take Over Payments
We Buy Homes for Cash
Selling your home to We Buy Homes in Harris County directly is characterized by speed and simplicity. While the offer may be slightly lower than market value, the rapid resolution can rescue you from the imminent threat of foreclosure. The peace of mind that comes with a quick transaction is invaluable during challenging times.
Take Over Payments
This option preserves your credit and offers a chance for a fresh start. By transferring the mortgage to a willing buyer, you can stop foreclosure in its tracks. The key lies in finding a reliable buyer who can shoulder the payments, allowing you to safeguard your financial reputation.
What homeowners are saying…

Honestly, we had no idea this was even an option. We are so glad We Buy Homes In Harris County reached out to us. This process was quick and easy and only took a week or two.
TERESA A. [NEW CANEY, TX] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Benefits of selling your home “subject-to” the existing mortgage

Improve Credit. Since the loan will remain in your name, you will see an improvement in your credit score as the mortgage continues to be paid on time.

Instant Debt Relief. If you owe more than the home is worth, you can use our program to get out from under all that debt and move on with your life with a stress-free process.

Get More Value for Your Home. We can reduce costs when buying your home, allowing you to get more value out of the sale of your house. The higher your loan, the more money you will save.

Loan Transparency. We will arrange for a loan servicing company to collect and report payments so you have complete transparency throughout the process.

Avoid Foreclosure. If you need to sell quickly, subject-to will allow We Buy Homes in Harris County to purchase your house quickly despite needed repairs or low to no equity.

Purchase Another Home. While this might depend on your lender, your debt-to-income ratio will not be affected when your contract shows the debt was sold as subject-to.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why would any seller agree to doing to this?
Typically in negative equity, no equity and low equity situations the seller avoids having to bring money to the closing table, so the seller is able to walk away. Considering interest rates have started to climb with no end in sight this is a win-win situation. After we catch the sellers up on their mortgage payments and taxes there are instances where the sellers can walk away with cash in their pocket instead of bringing money to the closing table. The seller is able to move on from the property. The seller no longer owns the property and therefore is no longer responsible for expenses such as repairs, maintenance, utilities, taxes, insurance, HOA, etc.
1. How will I know the mortgage payment will get paid on time? We use a third party loan servicing company to withdraw money from our account and make direct payments to the mortgage. This also shows proof that payments are being made. Each month you will get an email showing that the loan servicer has received payment.
2. What happens if you miss a payment? We would use a pre-signed Deed in Lieu agreement held at the loan servicing company. The house is effectively transferred back in the sellers name if we default over a 30 day period. Keep in mind, we brought an outstanding loan balance current & caught the seller up on any taxes, HOA fees that were in arrears. So essentially the seller in this situation would inherit the property back and benefit from any all loan pay down payments, improvements made to the home and appreciation that the property has seen. The seller could then sell the property again for even more money.
3. Who is responsible if there are repairs and maintenance needed on the property? The seller is no longer responsible for any repairs and maintenance on the property after the deed is transferred. The person responsible for any repairs or maintenance would be whoever is on the deed of the property. Since the seller’s name would only remain on the mortgage and the deed would change into the buyers name, then the buyer would be responsible for all of the repairs and maintenance.
4. Won’t this affect my Debt to Income to buy another property? For Conventional and FHA loans, we pre-pay 1 month of a lease agreement upfront and the lender that we use is typically able to wipe off 75% of the seller’s DTI right then. After 1 year of on-time payments, 100% of the DTI should be removed from the seller’s name. All you will need to do is show your lender that on-time payments are being made by us for the past year. If you have a VA loan, the amount you can purchase on your next home would depend on how much entitlement you have remaining. If you didn’t have enough entitlement for your next property, then you can use your proceeds from the “Subject-To” sale towards the down payment needed for your next home.
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