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Foreclosure Steps and Timeline
This short article describes the actions and timeline of a foreclosure case from starting to end.
1. Mortgage in default
Default = 1 day previous mortgage due date
- Lender sends Notice of Intent to Foreclose (normally sent out 45 days after default) and a loss mitigation application
2. Foreclosure filed in Court
- Lender's law practice files Order to Docket. - Can file any time after 45 days from when the Notice of Intent to Foreclose is sent out (or 90 days in default)
- Lender needs to wait 28 days after submitting the Order to Docket before submitting the final loss mitigation affidavit - Lender should submit the last loss mitigation affidavit a minimum of one month before sale
3. Foreclosure mediation (optional action)
- Homeowner must submit mediation demand and send a payment of $50, within 25 days of:
- The Order to Docket, if final loss mitigation affidavit served at same time - Receipt of last loss mitigation affidavit filed after the Order to Docket is submitted
- In either case - 25 days from final loss mitigation affidavit
- 45 days after the house owner has actually been serviced with the Order to Docket if it has a final loss mitigation affidavit submitted with it; or - thirty days after the last loss mitigation is served if it is filed after the Order to Docket is submitted
- Within 5 days of getting a mediation request, the Circuit Court will forward the request to Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH)
- OAH will set up the mediation within 60 days of receiving the request. OAH can extend the time approximately 1 month for good cause or longer if all celebrations concur. - OAH will send out the homeowner a scheduling notification - OAH will also consist of directions for files that need to be provided to OAH and the lender's law company prior to the mediation. These documents should be supplied no later than 20 days before the scheduled date of mediation.
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- OAH files a report with the court within 7 days after the mediation - If there is no arrangement in mediation, the Lender schedules the home for foreclosure sale. - The Lender can arrange the sale as quickly as 15 days after the mediation has occurred
4. Foreclosure sale
- Homeowner might file a movement to stay or dismiss under Maryland Rule 14-211 if they have a valid defense on why the lender does not deserve to foreclosure on their home. - The movement to remain need to be filed within 15 days after the mediation is held. If no mediation happens, then the motion should be filed within 15 days after OAH submits its report with the court. This may occur if one celebration stops working to stand for mediation. - The property owner might file a stay if the house owner has not received a last decision on the finished loss mitigation application that was gotten by the loan provider a minimum of 37 days before the sale date.
- When the lender schedules the foreclosure sale, they need to provide notice to house owner. - Notice needs to be offered no behind 10 days and no sooner than thirty days before the scheduled sale
- The Homeowner can treat the default by paying all past due payments, penalties, and costs and renew the loan at any time as much as 1 business day before the foreclosure sale occurs.
- Within 2 week after a postponement or cancellation of a sale, the Lender's law firm shall send a notice that the sale was postponed or cancelled to the debtor and/or the Homeowner. The notifications shall be sent by top-notch mail, postage prepaid.
- Once the foreclosure sale has happened, the lending institution should submit a report of sale with the Circuit Court - The report need to be filed within one month after the sale
- The Notary issues a notification that the sale will be validated within one month of Clerk's notice
- If a homeowner wishes to file exceptions to sale, it needs to be filed with the Court within one month after the clerk's notification
- The Circuit Court validates the sale after the time for exceptions has previous or exceptions have actually been overthrown
- After the foreclosure sale happens and the purchaser from the foreclosure sale finishes settlement, the court appointed auditor will submit the Auditor's Report with the Court. - The Homeowner and any junior lienholder is entitled to receive a copy of the Auditor's Report. - The Auditor's Report will reveal a shortage or a surplus.
- If the Auditor's Report shows a shortage, then the Lender might file a Movement for Entry of a Deficiency Judgment.
- If the Auditor's Report reveals a surplus, then the court auditor will advise to the Court how the earnings ought to be dispersed.
5. Eviction
- The buyer from the foreclosure sale submits a Movement for Entry of Judgment Awarding Possession - The Court need to provide an order approving possession - After the entry of judgment, buyer needs to send an expulsion notification prior to executing the writ of possession
- After the expulsion notification is served, buyer should submit a request for writ of possession
- Sheriff then carries out the writ and forces out previous property owner
Read the Law and Rules: Md. Code, Real Residential Or Commercial Property § 7-105.1; Md. Rules 2-647 (Enforcement of Judgment Awarding Possession); 14-102 (Judgment Awarding Possession); 14-207 (Pleadings); & 14-305 (Procedure Following Sale); COMAR 09.03.12
The Foreclosure Process from the Maryland Courts
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