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| Your Foreclosure Companion | |
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| Foreclosure: The Big Picture | |
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| What to Expect | |
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| Your Options: An Overview | |
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| How You Can Stay in Your House Payment Free | |
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| Why Foreclosure Doesn't Have to Be So Bad | |
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| Don't Get Scammed by a Foreclosure "Rescue" Company | |
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| Foreclosure Nuts and Bolts | |
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| How Much Time You'll Have to Respond | |
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| In or Out of Court? | |
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| Deficiency Judgments: Will You Still Owe Money After the Foreclosure? | |
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| Taxes | |
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| Can You Keep Your House? Should You? | |
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| The Emotional Part of Foreclosure | |
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| The Economics of Foreclosure: What You Need to Know | |
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| When It Makes Sense to Keep Your House | |
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| When It Makes Sense to Give up Your House | |
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| Negotiating a Workout | |
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| Do You Have Enough Time to Negotiate? | |
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| Using a HUD-Approved Housing Counselor | |
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| The Making Home Affordable Program | |
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| Basic Workout Options | |
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| Workouts for Government-Backed Mortgages | |
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| Foreclosure Avoidance Mediation Programs | |
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| Special Protections for Service Members on Active Duty | |
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| How Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Can Delay or Stop Foreclosure | |
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| Using Chapter 13 to Keep Your House | |
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| Using Chapter 13 to Delay Foreclosure | |
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| Coming Up With a Repayment Plan | |
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| An Overview of the Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Process | |
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| Will You Need a Lawyer? | |
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| How Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Can Delay or Stop Foreclosure | |
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| How Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Helps You | |
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| Using Chapter 7 Bankruptcy to Keep Your House | |
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| Using Chapter 7 Bankruptcy to Delay a Foreclosure Sale | |
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| The Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Process: An Overview | |
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| Do You Qualify for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy? | |
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| Will You Need a Lawyer? | |
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| Fighting Foreclosure in Court | |
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| How Long Can You Delay the Sale of Your House? | |
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| When It May Be Worth Fighting | |
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| How to Fight a Foreclosure | |
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| If You Decide to Leave Your House | |
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| Let the Foreclosure Proceed | |
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| Be Community Minded | |
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| Sell the House in a Short Sale | |
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| Offer the Lender a Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure | |
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| Avoiding Deficiency Judgments | |
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| Income Tax Liability for Deficiencies | |
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| How Long Can You Stay in Your House for Free? | |
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| When You Miss Your First Payment | |
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| After You Receive a Formal Notice of Intent to Foreclose | |
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| After the Sale | |
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| After You Get a Notice to Leave | |
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| Resources Beyond the Book | |
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| HUD-Approved Housing Counselors | |
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| Real Estate Brokers | |
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| Mortgage Brokers | |
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| Lawyers | |
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| Foreclosure Websites | |
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| Books | |
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| Looking Up Foreclosure Statutes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| State Information | |
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| Alabama | |
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| Alaska | |
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| Arizona | |
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| Arkansas | |
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| California | |
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| Colorado | |
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| Connecticut | |
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| Delaware | |
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| District of Columbia | |
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| Florida | |
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| Georgia | |
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| Idaho | |
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| Illinois | |
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| Louisiana | |
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| Maryland | |
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| Mississippi | |
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| Montana | |
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| Nebraska | |
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| Nevada | |
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| New Hampshire | |
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| New Jersey | |
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| New Mexico | |
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| New York | |
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| North Carolina | |
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| Ohio | |
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| Oklahoma | |
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| Oregon | |
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| Pennsylvania | |
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| Rhode Island | |
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| South Carolina | |
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| Tennessee | |
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| Texas | |
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| Vermont | |
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| Virginia | |
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| Washington | |
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| West Virginia | |
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| Wisconsin | |
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| Wyoming | |
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| Index | |