Living After Foreclosure

Living After Foreclosure participated in last week’s Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted over at The Happy Rock.  The article submitted was on just walking away from a foreclosure.  Thanks for including my article!

• My workplace is turning into an MLS Maybe yours is too. Over the past few years I've seen people occasionally posting a place for rent or sale.  Usually not too often.  For the past couple of weeks, I'm greeted each day with four advertisements for property.  Three of them are looking for renters. It might be just......
• Upside down? Prepare now to keep your mortgage current Plonkee Money is going upside-down a little bit on her mortgage, and is getting a little worried.  She can afford the payments, but she's concerned that if she were to be laid off she might lose everything. This is a valid concern, and she's wise to consider how to allocate......
• Now we have to worry about our neighbor's finances This article by Liz Pulliam Weston, entitled Foreclosure Nearby?  It's your problem, brings up the "friendly fire" aspect of foreclosures:  a foreclosure nearby hurts everyone in the neighborhood, not just the personl foreclosed on. A neighbor who's in financial trouble probably is worried about their house, but it's almost certain......
• Steps to take if you’re facing foreclosure, Part 3 Here's the last installment of Liz Pulliam Weston's tips for dealing with the possibility of foreclosure: Offer a deed in lieu of foreclosure. This is an option if the shortfall between your house's value and what's owed on it isn't too much.  The lender can say, "Yeah, I'll take the......

• Carnivals and Festivals for the week MBH was part of three four carnivals this week (thanks Kirby!): Carnival of Debt Reduction #32 at MBN member Consumerism Commentary with some possible tips on debt reduction when you're upside down on your mortgage. Festival of Frugality #20 at the Money Blog Network, with my post on getting magazines......
• Weekend Personal Finance Review Rather than tell a boring off-topic story, I'll just get to the links this week. The Digerati Life wants to retire early and live on one income. I want to too. More on that in the upcoming weeks. Sun is Considering a 401k rollover. Generation X Finance gives a few......
• Friday Link Love And Carnival Roundup First off, let me apologize for the irregular posting schedule this week.  A deluge at work and some personal reasons have really cut into my blogging time, but I will be back on the regular schedule next week.  I'm working on writing some reserve posts I can publish just in case something......
• Carnivals, and an upcoming Festival! This week's Carnival of Debt Reduction is hosted today by Free Money Finance. FMF is fresh back from a trip to Russia, and has a number of pictures to share. So after you've perused this week of debt reduction articles from the far corners of the blogosphere (not that......