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Underwater Homeowners Get Much Needed Short Sale Relief – Redding CA

In an effort to conform  California state law to a federal law at the end of Dec. 2012 which extended mortgage debt forgiveness, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS  is sponsoring Senate Bill 30, so that struggling California homeowners on the brink of foreclosure can get much needed mortgage debt relief.
This bill will for one more year exempt the taxation of mortgage debt that is forgiven when homeowners and their mortgage lenders negotiate a short sale or loan modification and that is including any principal reduction.

What does this mean?

Homeowners who want to or need to sell their home have 6 more months to do so.  The average time a short sale takes is four to six months.

If you are thinking about selling or need to sell your home, time is of the essence. Contact us for a free consultation to see if you qualify for a short sale.

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Short Sale Mortgage Debt Relief Act Extended – Redding CA

Underwater Homeowners Get Much Needed Short Sale Relief – Redding CA

Short Sale Mortgage Debt Relief Act Extended – Redding CA

Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief extended through 2013

For huge numbers of financially distressed  property owners of homes with underwater mortgages, this was the biggest issue in the entire fiscal cliff debate. The mortgage debt relief act provisions in the IRS tax code, first enacted in 2007, expired at midnight Dec. 31 on 2012.

Had Congress not acted, the IRS tax code would have reverted to its pre-2007 treatment of mortgage principal reductions or cancellations by lenders and banks, whether through loan modifications, short sales, deeds-in-lieu or foreclosures: All principal balances written off would be treated as ordinary income to the homeowners who received them.

For illustration, if a lender wrote off $80,000 of debt to facilitate a short sale, the seller would be taxed on that $80,000 at regular marginal rates, just as if they had earned it as income salary.

A return to taxation of principal reductions would have disrupted short sales , a growing segment of the home real estate market in 2013, and almost certainly would have encouraged more struggling home owners to take foreclosure and or bankruptcy.

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Short Sale Mortgage Debt Relief Act Extended – Redding CA

Tax Relief for Distressed Property Owners-Short Sale-Redding CA

The pressure is on for 2012 US congress to extend  the mortgage tax relief for homeonwers who may have mortgage debt canceled or forgiven through a short sale.

Did you know the Department of Justice made a settlement with big banks such as GMAC, Ally Bank, CitiMortgage, Chase, Wells Fargo and the biggie Bank of America.

This settlement to the big banks included approx. $25 Billion a Billion with a “B” to help struggling homeowners with loan modifications and other solutions to avoid foreclosure or short sale their home.

The fight is one for the extension of the mortgage debt relief act, extending the tax exemption.

It is anybodys guess if the tax exemptions will be extended.

Learn your options.

Any tax extension may ease the pressure on some distressed homeowners. But it would not eliminate it. All extensions ultimately will have another expiration date, possibly just one more year away.

Short sale real estate transactions can take several months, and the timelines are likely to stretch as homeowners, escrow officers and real estate agents rush to beat the deadlines.

Is a short sale right for you? What happens to the tax extension?

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The Redding Short Sale Team has experience dealing with banks and property owners, ask questions.

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Tax Relief for Distressed Property Owners-Short Sale-Redding CA

Short Sales are Not the Same as Foreclosures -Redding CA

The Redding Short Sale Team writes a great deal about real estate short sales in Redding, and we discuss avoiding foreclosures and their effect on homeowners and our Shasta County Properties.

Short sales are not the same thing as a foreclosure, but for some people looking into moving and selling their opportunities in Redding CA, short sales might be your best bet.

Short sale real estate transactions offer homeowners who are underwater on their property an opportunity to release themselves of their mortgage debt without going into foreclosure.

When a foreclosure occurs, the bank or lien holders take over full ownership of the home.

What happens during a short sale, the homeowners agree to put the house up for sale, but the purchase price is less than what is still owed on the mortgage.

In turn the bank agrees to accept less then the full amount owed on the mortgage.
A short sale is when a lender is being paid off “short”, less than the amount owed.

A short sale takes several months to complete. The sale of the property is not solely left to the discretion of the property owner, as is the case during a traditional property sale in Redding CA.

A offer to buy the real estate must pass through the bank or bank(s) for approval before going into a traditional escrow.

For this reason, short sales can sometimes take months to come to fruition, a process that will require patience by the homeowner, potential buyer and agents involved.

The best advice homeowners need when approaching a short sale is to not go the process alone.

Having the expertise of a property short sales agent at your side can make the entire process as easy as possible in this difficult situation.

The Redding Short Sale Team has experience dealing with banks and property owners, ask us for free advise.

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Short Sales are not the same as Foreclosures-Redding CA

Repairs and Short Sales-Redding CA

Many homeowners ask ” Do I need to do repairs or fix things in my home during a short sale transaction?”

The simple answer..

NO

The buyer needs to add the cost of the repairs to the purchase price and determine if this is still a good deal for them. Some buyers may choose to do the work themselves, or to purchase the property as is.

In all short sale cases the current homeowners usually do not