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Buying Foreclosed Homes
You can usually find lists of foreclosed homes at your county sheriffs dept., at the courthouses, or online through many different foreclosure listings websites. While buying foreclosed homes does have many benefits, there is also some risk involved. Foreclosed homes are normally purchased on an "as is" basis without any warranty of fitness. That means that you as the buyer assume all risk for any problems with the home, minor or major, and have no recourse against the lender who is selling the foreclosed property. You can buy foreclosed homes through a realtor, through sheriff's auctions, directly through banks, among many other ways. When buying a foreclosed home through a sheriff's auctions you are usually required to pay a minimum of 10% right after your bid is accepted either in the form of cash or a cashier's check. You then have 30 days to pay the remainder of the balance of the home. You can either pay this amount in cash or through obtaining a mortgage. Interest will generally begin to accrue each day beginning immediately after the auction. Many investors buy foreclosures under value. Some of these homes are neglected but many require mere cosmetic repair. If you are
interested in purchasing a investment home be sure to ask your loan officer about their Non Owner Occupied programs. You can also ask for a referral to a real estate agent in your area that specialized in banked owned properties. Though you may be qualified for 100% financing, the property might not be. The lender might not approve the condition of property where they want to invest their money on. Be sure to do home inspection and find the fair market value before you make the purchase decision. Paying Cash when buying a foreclosed home - Not all cash. You have to pay some cash to buy any home (the down payment). Therefore you buy it the same way you would buy any house. Ask the loan consultant for financing option. In some instances, they might have up to 100% financing available. When you buy a home that was foreclosed on, from a sheriff's auction most sheriff's auctions will require 10% to be placed as a down payment immediately. You will then be given 30 days to either come up with the rest of the money and pay for the house in cash or to obtain financing for the remainder of the balance. With a sheriff's auction cash is the best, easiest and most highly recommended way to buy the home. When you are trying to finance a property that is being bought through sheriff's auction most lenders will require an appraisal to be done and the sheriff's department will not allow you to have an appraiser get into the house. With these types of home purchases (sheriff's auctions) there is more risk to a lender on that property because if the people who owned the house previously could not afford to make the payments on the mortgage then they probably could not afford the upkeep of the property, they may have trashed the property or they could have taken permanent fixtures from the property and made the house unsafe to live in. Therefore, lenders will usually be a little more strict and underwrite these types of loans a little more strictly. Therefore, while financing a foreclosed property bought from a sheriff's sale is sometimes done and it is possible to do, paying cash for the property is much easier and usually better recommended. Do your homework on these types of properties to make sure they truly are a good sound investment because not all foreclosed homes are a good deal and some of them can cost much more money that they are worth.
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