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Homes For Sale : How To Preserve Your Property

By: Peter Shukla

If you've spiraled into a terrifying financial situation, take heart, because you're not alone. In today's volatile housing and job market, many people across the nation are facing repossession and bankruptcy due to no fault of their own. You may feel as though there is no way out of your situation, but there is an option you probably haven't thought of - selling your house and renting it back.

Clare Wilson, a single mom, went through this exact situation two years ago. After rheumatoid arthritis left her disabled, she could no longer work. She received a small sum of money from disability benefits each month, but this was not enough to pay her mortgage, let alone to feed herself and care for her two teenage sons.

Clare felt trapped and hopeless after wrestling with huge bills and debts for three years. She was to the point where she thought she would have to sell the home she had called hers for thirty years. She'd researched rental prices in the area and found that she couldn't afford them, so she resigned herself to moving with her two sons into a relative's home. She could find no homes for sale that she could conceivably purchase, and she was almost out of hope.

Fortunately, when her home started to enter the repossession or foreclosure process, an old friend called her up and told her how she had figured out how to sell and rent back her property. Clare was intrigued. After a few inquiries, she realized that this would be a viable option for her, and let her stay in her beloved home that would someday be hers again. Her home would not become one of those houses with a " home for sale " sign!

Here's a quick example of how the sell and rent back process works. First, Clare sells her home to a real estate firm that specializes in repossessions or foreclosures. After sitting down with a representative from a company, she determined a monthly rental rate that worked for her. She choose a rate that was low that she could get her house back in a reasonable time, without risking her ability to provide necessities. The properties to rent back, such as Clare's house, would rarely undergo a change of hands.

When a person sells a house to rent back, their monthly payments help to build equity in the home. They can just continue to rent indefinitely, but they can also use their rent toward the purchase of the home. They can either save up a down payment in order to buy the house back sooner, or they can keep paying rent until they've paid the total value of the house. That way, a person can eventually buy back their house when their finances improve. Being able to stay in one's house also prevents any embarrassment arising from knowledge of one's financial straits becoming public, and they will still have the proceeds from their home available to pay off the bills that have become insurmountable.

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After three years of massive bills and a mounting debt, she feared that the only way out was to sell the home she had lived in for thirty years. There were no other nearby homes for sale in her price range. Here is how to follow the process of sell and rent back. Clare sold her home to a firm that works in the repossession and foreclosure market, then she sat down with one of their representatives to determine renting back at an affordable rate for her. The properties to rent back will usually not ever go through a change of hands.

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