Important HUD Information

Alabama HUD homes become available on Fridays.  Properties are first available to owner occupants for 10 days as bid homes, after 10 days, anyone can bid on the homes.  Example:  123 Maple Street   (Price $83,500) Bid 1:  $83,500        Bid 2:  $85,799           Bid 3:  $95,600 Highest bidder wins - actually, the bidder providing the highest amount of funds to HUD.  Ask me and I will explain what this means.  Normally, HUD wants $500 Earnest Money or $1,000 if the home is over $50,000.  Also, the buyer must be pre-approved. Call or email me and I will be glad to show you the available HUD homes in our area. 706-527-4578 or kimolive@bellsouth.net

Links to various foreclosure
sites and investment info

Compass Bank
Fannie Mae
Fannie Mae Foundation

VA Forclosures

HUD
HooksVanHolm-If it is NOT on listing on this site, it is not available(even if it DOES have a HUD sign in the window).  If you want to bid on a HUD home you have to make sure you are pre-approved and you have the property amount of earnest money.  HUD does not play.

Foreclosure Listings

Property Foreclosure By Ron victor   

When a person buys a home, he has to take a loan regularly. The lenders, generally banks, keep the title to home collateral in this case. When the person is unable to pay the dues and payments in time, the ownership of the home is moved to the lender. Transferring of ownership to lender is called Foreclosure. Buying foreclosure has been compared to playing poker. Considering as an investment, it has its own risks. First the lenders will check out if there are any junior liens. When they find any pending loans, they pay off everything so that they themselves have clear title to the property. Once this is done, the lender adds up all costs to the loan amount to be recovered, and again resells the property so that they can convalesce the expenses together with the loan amount. This is an ideal time for investors to buy such property. Buying a property that has been foreclosed already has many gains.


The foremost and well-known benefit is the fact that all properties bought from lenders will have clear titles and ownership rights, thereby saving you the difficulty of doing any research. Next fact is that the foreclosure is not for profit booking. When the lenders sell foreclosed property they need their money back, so they are ready to sell the property cheaper than what it could have obtained in open market under normal conditions. The first step of buying foreclosure is to gather information. The best idea is to make a database in a specific manner so that you will have separate data on all the properties and markets in clear sets. The next step is to directly get in touch with the foreclosure owners and start negotiating with them. If you have the address of property but not the name, online directories may help you to find the pertinent names. Buying foreclosure property as a beginner on your own can be risky and if you are trying to buy such properties get help from agents.


One of the risks occurring is that when buying foreclosed property at auction, give just a week to deposit all the cash, and if you fail to do so, you may lose all your deposit at certain times. But as you keep on investing and making money, you can gain experience about bad construction, poor soils, problems with septic systems etc. Background reading and relevant information is extremely important before you get into foreclosure investing. Foreclosure laws in your state, priority of liens, bidding at auctions, title insurance, and bankruptcy are some key areas where you should obtain complete knowledge. You will be able to make better and safer investments in this way particularly. Property investment is not an easy game, and must be played only with caution and care. Little concerns for the person whose property is up for foreclosure are necessary for this process. But you can easily cut down the process of foreclosures into three primary stages. The first stage is pre-foreclosure, second stage is foreclosure auction and the third and final stage is bank owned foreclosures.


In general as you move along the timeline of the foreclosure process your potential for profit will diminish the latter you get to the foreclosure a property. If you're planning on making a full-time living eventually from real estate investment then you'll want to learn in baby steps how to get the most out of your time and efforts without any doubt. With that saying for those who are ambitious enough to do this full time work you have to learn how to find pre-foreclosures because they normally offer you the utmost leverage and profitability relevant to the most deep discounted properties available via bank owned properties.