We bought house (a foreclosure) in 2005 for 5K. Our loan ppl said our payments would be 00/mth. We didn’t know about taxes and ins. Or the 2nd mortgage. Payments = 00 a month.
We are self employed. 6 months later I refinanced the 2nd for repairs and business exp. Now we owe 0K – 0 on first & 100 on 2nd. Things did not continue to go well. We were loosing up to K a month sometimes, and getting by on credit cards!
So last year we put the house up for sale and guess what? Yup it still hasn’t sold. We were in credit card debt of K then. We’re in for K of cc debt now. And out of credit.
We are making enough to pay the mortgages, biz exp and groceries (4200 mth). Not enough to pay the credit cards (1200 mth). I’m at 30 days late with 8 cc’s now. We have no savings; some mths we may have enough to pay a debt reduction firm, but I can’t be sure.
If we lease purchase the house, that will give us money to move away and rent a cheaper house.
I just don’t know how many more months we can hold on. I don’t want to do bankruptcy.
Is there a way to do short sale without ending up with a 1099?
What about foreclosure? I really don’t want to do that but anyone have advice for me?
We’re making as much money as we can to pay our bills; the economy is hurting all small businesses. I never intended to have to use a debt reduction firm, this is very hard. The credit card companies won’t work with us until we’re 60-90 days over they say. I can’t get anyone that speaks good english on the phone at our 2nd mortgage company (Suntrust) and 1st (Countrywide) says they can’t do anything to help, not even deed in lieu.
There is no extra money for anything right now; this month we had to pay 0 to dentist for one of our kids. We have no health insurance. That’s why we couldn’t pay our cc’s this month.
Please don’t roast me; we need help from people smarter than us pls. Thanks.
This was our first house purchase, sorry we were green and didn’t know there would be extra taxes and insurance, esp at an extra 0 a month. Mortgage people have been getting bad press for not fully disclosing details. Sorry if we were one of the suckers.
We have no family other than ourselves -both sides. That sucks.
Due to debt to income ratio, countrywide will not refinance, nor will any other companies. I’ve tried.
Please note – we recognised we had a problem last year and tried to be proactive and sell the house so we could pay our debts. Buying too much house was a huge mistake.
I’m just asking for help. Thanks
State = Georgia
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