Buying Foreclosures Washington DC

by Broderick Perkins
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Deadline Newsroom – On a scale of fear where 1 is a sort of "pshaw" and 10 is your life flashing before you, the fear of buying foreclosures should be right up there with the out-of-body experience.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

No doubt a foreclosure purchase can be a good way to save money on buying a home or investing in real estate, but if you don't know what you are doing the ordeal can smother you under a shroud of financial losses.

There's simply too much risk in foreclosure acquisition for most financial portfolios and there are easier ways to make a buck in real estate.

The American Homeowners Foundation (AHA) says with more and more homes facing foreclosure, some home buyers are considering acquiring foreclosures -- or they are being led by the nose to the "deals".

[Also see: Foreclosures, Short Sales Already Less Taxing]

More than 2 million Americans stand to lose their home to foreclosure in the current mortgage market morass.

"Whenever the real estate market shifts, there's always this tendency to say, 'Hey. It's a good time to buy,' perhaps to cash in on those who maybe didn't understand what that really means, to cash in on the shifting market, to cash in on a returning or new trend," says Newport Beach, CA-based consultant Danielle Babb. ...

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