In Nevada Walking Away from Foreclosure would be an Unwise Move for Borrowers
In states like Nevada walking away from foreclosure would be an unwise move for borrowers because time is on the side of the lenders and their minions. The lenders have the legal right to pursue the borrowers and seize their assets and income years after the foreclosure drama. Today the borrowers may not have either income or assets but tomorrow they will. And just when they have recouped the lenders and their henchmen will come knocking armed with legal rights.
Philip Goldstein a bankruptcy attorney said, “I hear (lender) attorneys say they’ll put a clock or two years on the debt, so the person can get a new job and back on their feet. They they’ll start wage garnishment. It’s a very cruel economy right now.”
The law gives lien holders who are not part of the foreclosure operation six years time to collect their dues and there are ways and means to extend that time. Tisha Black-Chernine of Black Lobello, in Las Vegas said that the fundamental point is that the borrowers cannot escape without being harmed. The borrowers ink a promissory note and the agreement clearly states that the penalty for not paying entails the surrendering of the property. It would also stain the credit history of the borrowers.
Black-Chernie explained that when borrowers fail to get their loan modified they try for short sale. But now their stand is different – they will not pay intentionally and purposefully. She said, “They’re going to look at strategic default with a keener eye. We’re at 60 percent negative equity position in some houses. They’re starting to realize it’s throwing money in the hole.”
Of all the homeowners in Las Vegas, two thirds are underwater – their loans being more than worth of their houses. Despite the HAMP plan of President Obama that had been initiated to check foreclosures, the defaulting numbers have increased by 15% last January from what it was in 2009 January according to RealtyTrac.
The borrowers no longer have any faith in the sincerity of the banks to implement the programme and modify their loans – especially when the issue is about reducing the principal. Some are continuing to stay in the houses hoping against hope that the value of their houses would stabilize in the near future. But pundits predict otherwise.
There was double digit increase in value of property from 2003 to 2006 but since then it has dived down by 50% and sometimes by even 60%.
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In Nevada Walking Away from Foreclosure would be an Unwise Move for Borrowers
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