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Preventing Foreclosure
AHAA recognizes the importance of maintaining home ownership and has listed several tips and suggestions to help homeowners in danger of losing their homes. Losing your home to foreclosure will create family stress, seriously damage your credit and negatively impact your future finances. Your main priority should always be keeping your home. Please feel free to utilize the resources below or contact AHAA directly if you need help.
- Read this important Home Retention Checklist information about what to do if you are facing foreclosure on your home.
- Contact a housing counseling agency and talk to a credit counselor at HOPE NOW or AHAA.
- Check your State Housing Finance Agency for help. Many State Government Agencies have created a variety of programs to help homeowners.
- If you are in need of a place to live, visit the website of Social Serve.com, an affordable housing database that provides information on available units.
- Obtain legal help by contacting the Institute for Foreclosure Legal Assistance, which funds local groups nationwide that assist homeowners who are facing foreclosure.