- Joined
- Jan 17, 2017
He owes $90K and it's only worth $60K. Assuming it sells for $60K the lender may have the ability to let him pay them the $60K up front and keep paying the rest of the mortgage but they probably won't because at that point they'll have lost all collateral.I don't understand why he would rather foreclose on the condo and actively stop paying and lose it instead of selling it and actually getting some money back. What is the reasoning? Just everything about that idea sounds fucking dumb I don't understand how anyone capable of reading at a 3rd grade level thinks it is a good idea.
DSP thinks, because he's an astronomical moron, that he can just stop paying for it and the lender will repossess the condo and leave him alone. He doesn't understand (well... he might now if that's what his stressful phone calls were about) that they won't just leave him alone; they will auction it off for like $40K and sue him for the remaining $50K plus legal costs and auction costs. They will win. "I can't afford to fulfill my contractual obligations" is never good enough for a judge. He'll lose, they will garnish his income, and the end result will be him paying the same amount every month as he was before except now he doesn't own it anymore.
Then he'll declare bankruptcy and he will be forced to file documents (which will become public record for all time) showing how much money he makes, how much debt he has (along with who it's to and how it's secured), how much money he has, and how much personal property he has (along with what it's worth.)
The potential foreclosure saga will happen at earliest 3-4 months from now and the potential bankruptcy saga will happen in the following months.