Is it Safe to Buy a California Foreclosure?
Question: I bought my home from a major Bank that does business in America, do I have to worry that they did not own it legally and it can be taken from me?
Answer: No. Especially if the property is in California. Over the past few weeks I have had several conversations with attorneys and title companies and the consensus is that, particularly in California, the latest brouhaha on foreclosures will not affect your homeownership.
A quick recap for those on vacation abroad recently. It has come to light that in processing tens of thousands of foreclosures a week most major lenders were using "robo-signers" to process foreclosure documents. In some cases it was discovered that the paperwork used in court to foreclose on property was inaccurate or fraudulently attested to by bank employees. The explosive nature of the news caused Bank of America to halt all foreclosures in process nationwide until they could conduct a review. Attorneys General for all states created a join investigation process to determine if their state laws and federal laws were violated that resulted in illegal foreclosures.
The question that was part of the story is, if someone was foreclosed upon in what was proven to be an illegal process can that someone sue to get their home back? Sure they can sue but will they win? Probably not if the bank has resold the home and probably not, but less so, even if the bank still owns the property.
In California the answer is almost absolutely not since California practices non-judicial foreclosures for residential real estate. 
Meaning the foreclosure process does not involve a judge and a hearing as it does in other states. Because of this the chances greatly decrease that a judge revokes a prior ruling of foreclosure.
Should the prior owner of your home make a claim to title and for some reason a court rules in favor of returning title, chances are very high that your title policy will cover the claim and either pay-off the prior owner or buy you out. Almost everyone I spoke to about the matter however was of the opinion that the likeliness of such a claim being successful is very, very slim.
Why? The primary reason such a claim would not make it very far is because of the root cause of the problem. Someone signed a Promissory Note. That note said in part above the signature line "...I promise to pay...." Someone at some point failed to make payments. Failure to make payments results in foreclosure.
Go ahead and redecorate the living room and plan the kitchen remodel, you are safe at home. 
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Source: This article was originally posted by Dennis C. Smith, Stratis Financial Corporation, mortgage broker, Huntington Beach, CA, October 22, 2010. This article is copied here with permission granted by the author.
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posted by Harrison K. Long @ 3:59 PM
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Housing markets at the OC will be slow for 2010 and next year 2011, then demand will increase, with rising affordability, and decreasing market fear, and sales will go up.
The unknown would be possible change for negative if lender shadow inventory of homes with delinquent mortgages gets moved quickly through foreclosure. If that happens, more conventional recovery in housing probably would be delayed until early 2012, when more sales and stable sold prices still expected to dominate Orange County housing markets for next 12 months.
Why will it take to 2013 or 2015 for CA housing market to get back to "normal?"
Stopping all home foreclosures isn't what our economy needs and is not what those in foreclosure deserve. 
In the few illegal foreclosures, victims will be taken care of. 
Foreclosures now scheduled are mostly valid and should be moved forward. These are where borrowers were unable to or declined to pay their loans and defaulted. 
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