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Protecting Your Home Brochure
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Information on predatory lending practices. PDF document (may load slowly).
By: South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center
Steps That Advocates Can Take To Help Prevent Foreclosure
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Older homeowners fall behind on their mortgages for many reasons: sudden decreases in income due to the loss of a spouse; poor financial management which contributes to nonpayment of utility bills, service shutoffs and liens against the property; failure to perform necessary repairs and maintenance which make the property uninhabitable; second mortgage scams which make impossible demands on the homeowner's limited resources.
All of these contributing factors can be addressed by skilled advocates -- if homeowners turn to them in time. This issue of Consumer Concerns for Older Americans examines some of the measures that legal and non-legal advocates for the elderly can take to defend homeowners at risk of foreclosure.
By: National Consumer Law Center
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