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Potential Tax implications when loosing your home to Foreclosure or Short Sale

Josh Talayka | February 25, 2011

When a property is sold as a short sale or lost to foreclosure, it is treated as a sale or exchange from which you may realize a gain or loss. The amount of debt that is forgiven is seen as a gain since this is an amount you will no longer have to pay in the future. Except in cases of a gift or bequest, you must include cancelled amount of debt which you are personally liable for as income. However, all or a portion of this canceled debt may be excluded as income under the following exclusion classes:

Nevada Rural Housing Authority: Home at Last Program (tax credit)

Josh Talayka | January 3, 2010

The Home at Last Program Is a Mortgage Credit Certificate (MCC) program that provides a dollar-for-dollar federal income tax credit equal to 20% (for loans over $190,000) or 30% (for loans under $190,000) of the interest paid on a mortgage loan. This credit is given to the homebuyer every year as long as they live in the home. This tax credit will provide an estimated annual savings of $2,000 a year per household.

What Happens to the second mortgage if the first forecloses?

Josh Talayka | June 1, 2009

When the first lender carries out a foreclosure sale, the second mortgage lender may be able to take the following steps: Deficiency Judgment, civil judgment, bid for the property, charge-off