kraftykrab
LoanSafe Member
OK, so what have we learned?I want to say this out loud. For anyone reading this post, or thinking of challenging your foreclosure. Unless you are just attempting to stall time, and literally have zero desire to keep your home, I advise everyone to attempt to workout a Loan Modification of any kind, or to consider a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy if the modification fails.
But you should only get a Chapter 13, *IF* you have received actual financial counseling, and can afford a purposed plan payment. DO NOT JUST TAKE THE ADVICE OF A BANKRICPTY ATTORNEY, WHICH *RARELY* HAS YOUR BEST INTEREST AT HEART.
As time rolls and goes on, many people who have lost their homes, or walked away, have immense regret. Almost all of them are paying more in rent now, than they ever were on their crappy subprime mortgages. And further more, the loan mods, while sometimes crappy, would have eventually landed them to upside, in 2020, and on.
The Banks, have learned a lot since 2007. They no longer file cases in the name of MERS Inc, or lose promissory notes. Judges are far less sympathetic towards defendants, and housing, housing is a whole other world.
The entry into homeownership, even starter homes, is unprecedented. It's also becoming quickly out of reach, for most people. Beginner Condo's which once sold for $300,000, back in 2018, now regularly fetch well in excess of $575,000.
I just think... considering the facts, most people are far better off getting a loan mod, and paying a bank, and slowly, but surely, building equity, and having a secure, fixed payment. Despite what others say, this insane housing market will slow, but will not burst. And rental prices... well, a lot of people are going to suffer a slow death of a 1,000 cuts.
IF the banks have learned a lot since 2007 and no longer use those same tactics, wouldn't it stand to reason that they must have lost a significant number of cases? Otherwise, they would not ever change the tactics they used. So, for anyone who's still fighting after all these years where those things DID happen in their cases, there's got to be info out there somewhere that proves their claims. Again, if the banks really had done nothing wrong, they would never have changed their tactics. There have to be cases out there. Those cases are hard to come by. Perhaps going to law libraries or clerk's offices and reading the hard copies of cases might help. Since standard searches won't typically show up things like this online, we need to change OUR tactics of research, perhaps.