A foreclosure lawsuit is initiated by the attorneys for the lender by filing a Summons and Complaint in the County Clerk’s office of the county where the home is located. Thereafter the Summons and Complaint is served on the homeowners by a process server. The end of a foreclosure lawsuit is the sale of the homeowner’s home. The sale is an auction sale where anyone can come and bid as long as they have at least a third of the money up front and the rest within a few days.
The Home Is Under Water
There are cases where the foreclosure sale will not provide enough money to repay the mortgage loan. This is a situation where the home is called said to be Under Water. Under water means that the home is worth less than the amount that is owed on it. In these situations, the bank can move for a deficiency judgment against the homeowner. Here is an example of that situation: The homeowner owes $850,000. The home is sold for $750,000 at the foreclosure sale. There is now a deficiency of $100,000. The homeowner still owes the bank the $100,000. This means the homeowner can lose their home and still owe the bank a lot of money. Filing a bankruptcy can stop the foreclosure sale and in certain circumstances eliminate deficiency judgments against the homeowner.
After the Sale
After a home is sold at a foreclosure sale the new owners need to notify the homeowners of the details of the sale. Then the new owners start to take action to have the prior homeowners removed from the house. Unfortunately, the loss of a family’s home is a very unpleasant experience.
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In New York a foreclosure is a court supervised process. A lender retains an attorney and files a lawsuit to enforce the lender’s right to take the home back for failure of the homeowner to fulfill their requirements of making payments under the mortgage. Prior to initiating the foreclosure lawsuit the lender must give the homeowner a ninety 
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The bank retains a law firm that drafts a Summons and Complaint. The Summons and Complaint is filed with the County Clerk’s Office of the County in which the home is located. The filing of these papers gives the Summons and Complaint an Index Number. This Index Number is a tracking device for the case going through the Courts. Simultaneously with filing this Summons and Complaint, the attorneys for the financial institution file a Lis Pendens. This advises other people that there is a Court case against the property. This has a negative impact on the title to the home.
The State of New York has a residential foreclosure actions consumer bill of rights. This gives homeowners information they can expect if their home goes into foreclosure. The foreclosure legal action is a lawsuit initiated by the bank’s attorneys to repossess the home, sell it and use those funds to pay off the mortgage.
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A foreclosure is the name of a lawsuit that the financial institution holding a mortgage files against the homeowner. The filing takes place in the County Clerk’s Office of the County in which the home is located. The lawsuit moves forward in the Supreme Court in the County where the property is located.
