Foreclosure Effects On Your Credit Report

We decided to release some of our short videos from our CharlotteForeclosureChallenges.com website to our Bee Home Solutions audience. These videos are created from the top 20 questions that we receive from our customers and/or prospective customers and we’ve provided answers to them here.

The video below discusses the effects of having a foreclosure on your credit report. Please watch and leave us your comments below. Thanks!

take care,
Mike Moulton, Broker
Bee Home Solutions, Inc.
704-885-0488

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Multiple Lenders Delaying Foreclosures In 23 States A Coincidence?

Charlotte Foreclosure Real estate

By now, most of you have seen the headlines from last week where a number of lenders including Bank of America, GMAC and JP Morgan Chase have announced that they are delaying or halting the processing of thousands of foreclosure filings in 23 states.  Click here for the Washington Post story.

This is definitely a challenging economy for many businesses and homeowners and the fact that these lenders are “rubber stamping” documents through their foreclosure presses doesn’t make someone whose been working hard to keep their home get a warm fuzzy about their lender and their processes.  So they are basically admitting that no one has reviewed, read, or even processed the content within these documents.  What about all the time homeowners have spent the past couple of years trying to workout a loan modification with these lenders?  How much time was wasted for a 4% success rate across the board?  The question that arises is was anyone even looking at that paperwork as well.

Call it a conspiracy theory or not, but the fact that all these lenders just so happen to announce the same problem with foreclosure document processing within the same week makes me wonder if they are all tied into the madness together.  The uncovering of one stone will lead to another and so on.

Mike Moulton, Broker, BeeHomeSolutions.com
Serving the Greater Charlotte, NC real estate market

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That’s why the lady is a HAMP…or is it Jimmy HAFA?

If the corny title to this blog post didn’t get your attention, I think that the details behind it will.  Mike Moulton of Bee Home Solutions, Inc. in Charlotte, NC discusses the pros and cons of the government programs surround HAMP (Home Affordable Modification Program) and the HAFA  (Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives) program.

HAFA is designed for homeowners who have applied to HAMP for assistance but have had no success with their loan modification program. To participate in HAFA, homeowners must still meet HAMP’s eligibility criteria (principal residence, first-lien mortgage, serious delinquency, unpaid balance under $729,750, and a mortgage payment over 31 percent of gross income).

Watch the video for more details. Bee Home Solutions, Inc. is a licensed real estate firm in NC and helps to provide numerous no fee solutions to homeowners facing foreclosure.  704-885-0488 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              704-885-0488      end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

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Homeowners beware of your lenders Deed in Lieu of foreclosure offer letters

Recently at the end of June, many of the big lenders started sending out letters to homeowners that are behind on their mortgages offering them what they are calling a favorable deed in lieu of foreclosure offer.  What many homeowners don’t realize is that they are giving up their rights to the title of their properties and have to move out within 30 days maximum.  Checkout the video that I recorded on this:

Through working with a lot of our clients in the greater Charlotte, NC area, we have found excellent alternatives to foreclosure for them via a short sales and other methods.  For more information, please call our office at 704-885-0488.  You can also visit our informational site at Charlotte Foreclosure Challenges.

All the best,

Mike Moulton

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Greater Charlotte Area Real Estate Market Statistics – March 2010

Sell_Your_HomeAlthough its May, I’m reporting and interpreting the Greater Charlotte, NC real estate market data for March’s activity. This is because April’s activity is not available yet.  For March 2010, overall there were 1,900 residential units sold (condo, townhome, house, etc.) vs. 25,526 on the market (7.5% sold in March vs. what was available). This is up 36% from the previous month in February 2010 with 1,397 units sold. The homebuyer tax credit most likely had a large impact on this but we’ll see when we get April’s data since April 30th was the last day to be under contract (this should uptick closings through June 30th which is the closing deadline for that program).  Pending status (under contract) was right at 2,498 for March which is up over 500 units from February 2010. What is interesting to note is when the Pending status increases and stretches out from month to month, its a direct indicator of the longer processing times in the mortgage industry. In our business we are still seeing delays with short sale approvals and timing.

Drilling down a bit, in Union County had the most sales in March with 164 units sold with an average sales price of $259,477. The Lake Wylie market has declined in sales tremendously only producing 23 sales in March with an average sales price of $397,322. The following are the sales numbers for March 2010 for some of the surrounding counties:

Mecklenburg County (N) – sales 159 (avg. sales price $ 183,806)
Mecklenburg County (E) – sales 122 (avg. sales price $ 122,708)
Mecklenburg County (SE) – sales 75 (avg. sales price $ 161,597)
Mecklenburg County (SSE) – sales 74 (avg. sales price $262,975)
Mecklenburg County (S) – sales 153 (avg. sales price $ 363,914)
Mecklenburg County (SSW) – sales 63 (avg. sales price $ 194,830)
Mecklenburg County (SW) – sales 72 (avg. sales price $ 140,859)
Mecklenburg County (W) – sales 57 (avg. sales price $72,000)
Mecklenburg County (NW) – sales 90 (avg. sales price $129,450)
Cabarrus County – sales 148 (avg. sales price $159,000)
Iredell County – sales 90 (avg. sales price $ 138,413)
Lake Norman – sales 72 (avg. sales price $314,500)
Lincoln County – sales 24 (avg. sales price $ 137,864)
Lake Wylie – sales 23 (avg. sales price  $ 397,322)
Gaston County – sales 140 (avg. sales price $ 109,759)
York County – sales 121 (avg. sales price $ 201,386)

Hopefully you found this useful. As always, feel free to give us a call at 704-885-0488 if we can help you with your real estate needs or click here. Take care,

Mike Moulton

Bee Home Solutions, Inc.

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