Well, friends - it ain't over till it's over. That's all I'm saying.
Last week, we were sure we were toast. We talked to St. June on Friday morning, and she said that she didn't think that we were going to be able to pull this off; that they wanted our house and that was it. She said to my husband, "Why don't you give them a call yourself and see what they have to say." When he called, to our surprise we found out that not only was there no new sale date (we had been told that the new sale date was the 26th of April) but we had been taken off the foreclosure list.
Apparently the bankruptcy filing had put the house on hold. The bank asked my husband to take the house off of the bankruptcy hold so that they could 'offer him a loan mod'. St. June said to do no such thing; what they wanted was to lift the restriction so that they could take the house. Remember, OneWest bought IndyMac at a fire-sale price; this means that they bought our loan for pennies on the dollar, which means that the profit margin on our house is enormous. They have no interest in letting us stay in our house unless we make it more difficult to foreclose than to work with us.
This does not mean that they won't ultimately take the house, but it does mean that they're not taking it right now, which is a vast improvement.
I'll take limbo. Limbo beats 'game over'.
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All I could think about reading this was the lines in the Woodie Guthrie song about Pretty Boy Floyd: "As through this world I've rambled, I've met lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a 6-gun, and some with a fountain pen. As through this world I've rambled, as through this world I've roamed, I ain't never seen an outlaw drive a family from their home."
But you're musicians. You already know that.
When I first heard that song, I thought it referred to quaint bygone days of financial strife. Never thought it would be relevant to modern times. Ah, but the braying happytalk media tell us the recession is over...
keep hanging in there.
Wondrous news! I simply could not believe the bankruptcy filing gave you only 2 weeks' reprieve.
Hold on to St. June!
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