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Free foreclosure prevention workshop offered for struggling homeowners
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Free foreclosure prevention workshop offered for struggling homeowners
A free foreclosure prevention workshop provides struggling homeowners an opportunity to meet with trained housing counselors and lenders to solve mortgage problems.
The nonprofit Orange County Home Ownership Preservation Collaborative sponsors six foreclosure prevention workshops every year. This one’s different because of a new requirement that homeowners talk with a HUD-trained housing counselor before they meet with mortgage lenders at the event.
Organizer Connie Der Torossian, says studies indicate that homeowners’ chances improve when they have a counselor who can continue to advocate for them after the event. It’s someone to call when the bank says it’s lost your paperwork. Again.
"I can’t guarantee any kind of outcome, but I can at least say you can meet face-to face with them, you can bring your paperwork, you can hand it off to them and you have somebody to call — a live person — at a nonprofit agency, that you’ll be able to follow up with your file."
The workshop is Saturday, Feb. 26, at Ladera Ranch Middle School, 29551 Sienna Parkway, Ladera Ranch, CA 92694. Registration is at 9 a.m. The event continues until 1:30 p.m. Homeowners should bring all their mortgage-related paperwork.
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