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Many Homeowners in Foreclosure Believe in Magic

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Foreclosure is a financial and legal issue. If you attack the issue from a financial standpoint, you must to have cash to pay your mortgage. If you attack it from a legal standpoint, you must be able to find a flaw in the foreclosure lawsuit to dismiss it. I don’t see any other way of stopping foreclosure.

If you are facing foreclosure at this moment, you are inundated by letters from foreclosure assistance companies that charge outrageous amounts of money to negotiate with your lender; the majority of these companies are a scam.

You also get creative letters from so-called “investors” offering free advice and with the intention to make you sell your home to them at a deep discount using deceptive kitchen table closings in which they make you sign mysterious paperwork (land trusts, etc) that basically transfer the title/deed of your home to them sometime taking over your mortgage payments and leaving the loan liability on your name. Some of this “investors” also offer very deceptive “lease-back” arrangements in which they let you stay in your home as a tenant, and they pray that you stop paying rent so that they can evict you so that they can take possession of your house. You also get letters from Realtors® who are trying to make you list your home for sale and paint a rosy picture of the real estate market and the value of your home (Read National Consumer Law Center’s report “Dreams Foreclosed;” one of the best studies recently written about the rampant theft of American’s homes through equity-stripping foreclosure rescue scams).

Last but not least dangerous, you get letters from nice attorneys offering free consultations to make you file Chapter 13 bankruptcy; what these attorneys don’t tell you is that based on research (see studies: The Realities of U.S. Personal Bankruptcy under Chapter 13, and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Successful Versus Unsuccessful Debtors) the overwhelming majority of Chapter 13 filers do not complete their payment plans and are not discharged.

You will also find on the internet a proliferation of eBooks that promise to stop foreclosure magically with names such as “Foreclosure Free Zone,” “The Fight Of Your Life: How To Beat The Foreclosure Demons Smart Solutions For Saving Your Home,” “Avoid Foreclosure And Fix Credit Problems,” ”Foreclosure Help – Don’t Let The Bank Take Your Home!“ In my research, I’ve even bought some of these type of eBooks just to see what’s so magical about them, and found that they don’t have any information that isn’t common sense and readily available for free online. All the advice in these books fall into these categories: 1) Talk to your lender, 2) Sell your home, 3) File for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection, and 4) Refinance/Get a loan. None of these books, nor the Chapter 13 attorney, nor the Realtors®, nor the “investors” in their white horses tell you about your legal rights and how you can defend yourself from the abuse of the debt collector attorneys.

Foreclosure is a financial and legal issue. If you attack the issue from a financial standpoint, you must to have cash to pay your mortgage regardless of negotiating a payment plan with your lender yourself or through a foreclosure assistance/consulting company. Bear in mind that when negotiating a payment plan with your lender (sometimes called Forbearance Agreement) , you may be required to come up with a lump sum (usually half of your past-due payments) and proof of income. It’s very simple; if you have sufficient cash and/or income to pay your monthly mortgage obligation, it’s very likely you can negotiate something with your lender to stop foreclosure. If you don’t have the cash and/or the income, you will have to attack the issue from a legal standpoint.

If you attack the issue from a legal standpoint, you must learn about your legal rights and, preferably with the help of a consumer protection attorney (www.naca.net), find a technical or legal flaw in the lawsuit to have it dismissed. These flaws could be hidden in the lender’s debt collection attorney not following your state’s rules of civil procedures (for instance: You were served improperly) or by digging into the foreclosure complaint and court docket to see if there is an actual plaintiff’s proof of ownership of the promissory note, or if the original promissory note has been filed in the court records, or any of the other twenty-something reasons that that could render a judgment void or invalid.

There is no magic in foreclosure. If a homeowner doesn’t pay his or her mortgage, the lender will foreclose on their homes. There is no magical negotiation with a lender that can be done without cash at hand and/or ability to pay supported by proof of income. There is a lot of literature on the internet and in bookstores about the debt collection industry, on how to stop foreclosure negotiating with the mortgage lenders, about how debt collections works, about what to expect from debt collectors, etc, etc. However there is little information about how to navigate the legal system, on how to file pleadings and motions and on how to execute the steps necessary to win the debt collection/foreclosure battle in court. Almost nobody explains to homeowners in simple terms how the legal system works and how they can use it to your advantage to win debt collection lawsuits.

Julio Martinez-Clark has a Bachelor?s degree in Electrical Engineering (B.S.E.E), a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) and extensive domestic and international business experience in the telecommunications and real estate industries. Mr. Martinez-Clark has been a victim of the deceptive practices of the debt collection industry and has done extensive research on debt collection law. Mr. Martinez-Clark also publishes an informative newsletter called “The Truth Report” available at his website www.juliomartinezclark.com in which he exposes the truth about several life topics (money, law, health, etc), news and general information that you likely won’t see in the mass media. If it?s in the media, it?s probably not important for you to know it. He is also the author of a book titled ?How To Legally Beat Debt Collectors.?

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Creative Real Estate Investing – Using Strategy Combinations to Make More With as Many Options as Possible

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One of the best ways to increase profits on as many properties as possible is to use a creative real estate investing system with strategies like assignments, subject to, foreclosures, and lease options in conjunction with one another. Once you learn each of the individual strategies, you can begin to apply them in conjunction with one another. This will help you avoid a lot of the pitfalls and scam tactics along the way. You will also have a lot more flexibility while limiting your risk substantially when you do this. Below are few examples of strategy combinations you can use in any market, whether up, down or flat.

“Subject To” and Lease Options

You can gain control of a property using a subject to arrangement, then lease option the property for higher rents, more cash flow and a higher purchase price. (When someone is leasing to purchase instead of just renting it is typical that they will pay more for rent and have a higher purchase price then an outright buyer)

“Subject To” and Foreclosures

When you find an owner in preforeclosure, you can gain control of the property using a subject to arrangement, then bring the loan current by selling, renting, lease optioning, or assigning the property to another buyer or investor.

Foreclosures and Lease Options

When you get a property in foreclosure (and maybe you even negotiated an additional discount using a short sale) you can then lease option the property for higher rents, more cash flow and a higher purchase price.

Lease Options and Assignments

You can gain control of a property using a lease option as a buyer, then assign that right to another buyer or investor.

Foreclosures and Assignments

You can tie up a property in foreclosure by getting it under contract at a lower purchase price (and even negotiate an additional discount with a short sale) then assign that right to purchase the property to another buyer or investor for a fee.

Other Combination Strategies

You can use a number of different strategies in conjunction with one another. For example, you may find a property that needs a lot of work, then rehab the property and lease option it for a higher purchase price and rents. The same principle can also apply to single family homes by doing lease options instead of traditional rentals. These are some additional ways to increase profits, cash flow and long term growth.

If you are buying and holding properties make sure you’re in a market that supports it. You will not want to hold properties that are losing value because of a market decline (unless you’re getting enough monthly cash flow to justify it). This is why faster, lower risk, strategies as described above are better to use for flat and down markets.

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Purchase Realestate Overseas for Many Different Reasons

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Capital spending in realestate overseas can be a great job. If you intend to invest on realestate overseas make sure you do a lot of research on the property marketplace. You will not remorse it if you do everything right because you will end up having money come in from all different directions during all different times if you invest a lot of different real estate overseas. At the end you could end up making a future just for investing realestate overseas, so you may want to begin seeking for that international property you are going to invest in right now.

If you are not the only one that has been planning to analysing in realestate overseas because there are bounty of people in the world who buy realestate overseas for many different reasons.
People who capitalize in realestate overseas do this for various reasons. Investing in realestate
overseas not only takes prodigy but also it will take a lot of time to invest in such property. You
are going to have to take time out of your diligent life to find that overseas property that you will
be investing on.Calculating the next big marketplace for overseas property purchasers is becoming gradually difficult as time moves on, as there are now few developed countries where Britishers have not started to pick up property and develop or improve it. With the raising inspiration of low-cost airlines on how we decide on and take our holidays, along with the perish of the traditional package holiday, owning a holiday home is more and more the norm for the general public.

By definition, investment in realestate overseas is used for rental income or capital growth by investing in properties. It is not mandatory to captured by the owner. More and more investors are respecting realestate overseas for profit generation. Divergent to the stock market that is capricious as values of the stocks dangling in more or less unpredictable manner, realstate overseas investments can be stable and predictable. One simply requires to realize the market value of the property if they want to resell it. Furthermore, if the realestate overseas investment is for rental, what the costs to be considered are maintenance, enhancement or repair. In other words, investment in realestate overseas can be handled substantially than investment in shares, stocks or bonds.

Now that you know the advantageous of investment in realestates overseas, you are featured with the choice to answer where to buy properties. The choice consists realestates overseas and local property. Investing in realestates overseas has its own benefits. One of them is that you can look for realestate overseas property under a nation with high tax incitements. This singly can offer you higher capital prowth of what you invested because your money will genuinly be on the property and not on the pocket of the government. Secondly, realestate overseas property is an alteration of the local market.

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