This title and Mortgage servicing and loan modifications together supersede the fifth edition of Foreclosures and mortgage servicing by the same publishers. -- note from publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Authority to foreclose -- Challenging the authority to foreclose -- Authority to foreclose special issues : servicers, GSE loans, and MERS -- Procedural and equitable defenses to home foreclosures -- Government insured loans and moratoriums -- Defending foreclosures by challenging unfair lending practices -- Litigating foreclosure cases -- Using bankruptcy to prevent foreclosure -- Issues arising after a foreclosure sale -- Manufactured home foreclosures and repossessions -- Forfeiture of land installment sales contracts -- Condominium and homeowner association liens and foreclosures -- Preventing foreclosure of reverse mortgages -- Tax liens and tax foreclosures -- Foreclosure rescue scams -- Appendix A: Selected provisions of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act -- Appendix B: Selected statutes and regulations pertaining to mortgages held or insured by the federal government -- Appendix C: Reverse mortgages -- Appendix D: Summary of state reverse mortgages -- Appendix E: Summary of state foreclosure laws -- Appendix F: Summary of state real estate tax abatement laws -- Appendix G: Summary of state tax lien foreclosure laws -- Appendix H: Summary of state condominium laws -- Appendix I: Foreclosure prevention practice aids and sample mortgage documents -- Appendix J: Helpful websites -- Appendix K: Glossaries