I am aware that in California they passed a law about a year and a half ago where if your home foreclosures you are only legally bound to pay back the loan if you refinanced and took equity out not on your original purchase loan. That being said we can still make our payment but the neighborhood is getting really bad with gangs violence and break-ins. I am 20 something female whose husband works nights & I can’t sleep at night anymore since this has started & I think it will only get worse on a house that is now worth 50K less than we paid for it. So would it be better to walk away or see if the lender will accept a short sale. In a foreclosure do they send you a 1099 to get taxed on the difference? Because of the area we live in our houses will be the last to have value return. So we’ll be stuck there for the next 10 years probably & to top it off we have an ARM that we were told how easy it’d be to refinance before it resets so I fear 3 more years it will be too much $ anyways
Thank you for the concern but I would rather have to live with a foreclosure for 7 years than live with not being able to sleep at night or every go out of town or in a worst case scenario live with being raped for the rest of my life. So please answer what I asked not tell me no don’t do that. The values since the neighborhood is so bad are not likely to rise for another 6-7 years. I can’t stay and wait for it to get worse and worse.