Home foreclosures : including reverse mortgages, tax liens, condominium liens, land installment sales, and seizure of manufactured homes / Geoff Walsh, John Rao, Steve Sharpe ; contributing authors, Jeremiah Battle, Jr. [and nine others].

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Consumer law practice series.
Main Authors: Walsh, Geoff (Author)
Rao, John, 1956- (Author)
Sharpe, Steven (Steven Raymond) (Author)
Corporate Author: National Consumer Law Center
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : National Consumer Law Center, [2023]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Consumer law practice series.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xxxiv, 1,012 pages ; 28 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Authority to foreclose
  • Challenging the authority to foreclose
  • Authority to foreclose special issues : servicers, GSE loans and MERS
  • Procedural and equitable defenses to home foreclosures
  • Government insured loans and moratoriums
  • Defending foreclosures by challenging unfair lending practices
  • Litigating foreclosure cases
  • Using bankruptcy to prevent foreclosure
  • Issues arising after a foreclosure sale
  • Manufactured home foreclosures and repossessions
  • Second mortgage foreclosures
  • Forfeiture of land installment sales contracts
  • Condominium and homeowner association liens and foreclosures
  • Preventing foreclosure of reverse mortgages
  • Tax liens and tax foreclosures
  • Foreclosure rescue scams
  • Appendix A. Selected provisions of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
  • Appendix B. Selected statutes and regulations pertaining to mortgages held or insured by the federal government
  • Appendix C. Reverse mortgages
  • Appendix D. Summary of state reverse mortgage laws
  • Appendix E. Summary of state foreclosure laws
  • Appendix F. Summary of state real estate tax abatement laws
  • Appendix G. Summary of state tax lien foreclosure laws
  • Appendix H. Summary of state condominium laws
  • Appendix I. Foreclosure prevention practice aids and sample mortgage documents
  • Appendix J. Helpful websites
  • Appendix K. Glossaries.