By the time the foreclosure process gets to the sheriff’s sale, the person in the house is usually doomed. Because to get there, there would already have been months of negotiations over bankruptcy or other options to deal with the problem. The sheriff's sale is mostly a formality in that its a process where the holder of the mortgage almost always inevitably purchases the mortgage for a predictable amount. Others can go and bid, but are not likely to win other than in exceptional circumstances.
There is a six-month window for the owner of the property to purchase the property from the mortgage company. And Nick might be able to do that if he completes the sale of the second house. But I also wonder if the other house also has an outstanding mortgage.
If he stopped paying the mortgage a year ago, he stopped paying it right around the time the money from rumble ended.
The really interesting thing is that just about a year ago, Nick had to choose between his cocaine habit and making house payments. Because the coke he was using would certainly have covered the house payments. Yet in the worst kind of moronic hood rat crackhead logic, Nick decided not to make the house payments.
This might also explain why the house was so dirty and things like the doors under the sink were not fixed. Nick had committed mentally to losing the house early in 2024 and just didn't care what happened to it anymore.
The only thing I can't figure out is how (or why) Randazza is still on the case in these circumstances. Was Nick really so dumb that he decided that showing up Monty in court was more important than keeping a roof over his head? The only thing I can think of is that he paid a massive six-figure retainer to randazza at the start of that case that he can't take back now.