How Do You Purchase Sherff Sales Properties Before Sale

There is a property I am looking at appraised at 165,000, with mortgage of 86474.00. It will be sold at a local sherrifs auction on June 9. They will begin taking bids on it for 2/3 of the 165,000 which is 110,000. My question is; is it possible to contact someone and offer to simply pay off this mortgage (all cash) and prevent it from going to the sale? It would be a tremendous buy if I could. Who should I contact about this. I am assuming since it has been foreclosed that the owners are out of the picture as far as a contact.

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  • cjmazur26th May, 2005

    you could potentiall do a short sale, or buy the debt from the lender.

    Remember apprasied value has little to do w/ FMV.

    In the case of buying the note, at least in CA, you have stepped into the shoes of the borrower and still have to conduct the auction.

  • cjmazur26th May, 2005

    if the mortgage is say 100K but the auction prices is 80K, there is a deficiency of 20K.

    In some states the creditor can go after the borrower for this money.

  • bgrossnickle26th May, 2005

    where did you see this chart? I can not find it.

  • bc126th May, 2005

    In my neck of the woods, a deficiency judgement is rarely pursued by the beneficiary.

    By the way, in Oregon, the notice requirement is four months, not five, as stated in the chart.

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