How to Help Yourself
Avoid Foreclosure
A Step-By-Step Consumer Self-Help Kit

CAAs might consider adapting this information for use in their respective state.

Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia, Inc. (HOME) has published a How to Help Yourself Avoid Foreclosure Self-Help Kit.  This simple guide is designed to help homeowners evaluate their financial situation, determine if their home is affordable, offer direction on how to work with their mortgage company, and options that may help them avoid foreclosure of your home.  It also raises awareness about “foreclosure rescue” and loan modification scams and how not to become a victim.

Other related items available through HOME include Complete Foreclosure Prevention Intake Forms Packet and How to Avoid Foreclosure of Your Home (brochure).

Click here for additional Foreclosure Assistance Resources that have been gathered on Virtual CAP.