Five Most Common Mistakes Alabama Consumers Make When Sued For Ejectment After Foreclosure


Five Most Common Mistakes Alabama Consumers Make When Sued For Ejectment After Foreclosure

discover the most common mistakes consumers make when they're being sued for ejectment after foreclosureAfter an Alabama consumer has gone through a foreclosure, a demand will be made to leave the home within ten days.

If you don’t leave your home, then the mortgage company will sue you in what is known as an “ejectment action” to eject or evict you from your home.

Most Alabama consumers do nothing – and so the judge will rule against you and you will lose your home.

We have a book entitled “THE FIVE MISTAKES CONSUMERS MAKE WHEN FACING AN EJECTMENT LAWSUIT” that focuses in on the mistakes we see in Alabama. If you would like this book, at no charge, call us at 205-879-2447 or contact us through this website.

Here is an overview of the five mistakes:

Mistake #1: Not answering the lawsuit.

This is the most critical mistake.

If we don’t answer the lawsuit, we will lose.

There is no other way to say it.

Whether the company suing for ejectment is right or wrong, it doesn’t matter.

If we don’t answer, we lose.

You can read about this mistake of not answering the lawsuit here.

The second mistake explains why people often don’t answer.

Mistake #2: Assuming that nothing can be done after the foreclosure sale.

We’ll talk for a moment about judicial versus non-judicial foreclosures.

Here in Alabama, we have non-judicial foreclosures.

Once the house is sold, many people wrongly assume there is nothing that can be done.  We have been successful in a number of lawsuits to undo the foreclosure and get our folks back in good standing with their mortgage companies.

That’s why they don’t answer the complaint.

Mistake #3: Assuming that the mortgage company (or whoever it was that foreclosed on the house) had the right to foreclose.

Some people call this “standing,” and what is meant by this is that the company doing the foreclosing has to have the legal right to do this.

If they don’t, then they lack the standing to foreclose and any foreclosure by this company will be a wrongful foreclosure.

Mistake #4: Assuming that the foreclosure process was lawful and valid.

People think, “It happened, and they must have done it right.”

That’s not always an accurate assumption as we have seen many foreclosures that were wrong and illegal.

Mistake #5: Failing to file a counterclaim.

This is when folks have potential claims they can bring against a mortgage company that is suing to eject or evict them from their home, but they fail to file counterclaims.

In other words, when people have been sued, they have the right to countersue or file a counterclaim, but they don’t do that.

We’ll talk about some of the consequences of that in future articles.

In future articles we will dive into these issues in more detail but hopefully this overview helps now.

Contact Us.

If you have any questions, you can reach us by phone at 1-205-879-2447.

You can also fill out a contact form and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible.

I look forward to chatting with you!

Have a great day!

-John G. Watts

PS — As an update to this article, keep in mind you can use RESPA letters even after a foreclosure to help you get answers from your mortgage company.  You can request documents and information.  You can tell your mortgage company to fix errors (including a foreclosure).  Here is a training video you can watch on how to use these powerful letters.


2 Comments

  1. Leah says:

    I would like a copy of this book.

    Thanks for your help, I was lost before I found your website.

    [Name and address redacted]

    • John Watts says:

      Be glad to send this — should go out in the mail tomorrow to you.

      Hope it helps and in the meantime call my office at 205-879-2447 and we can set up call or meeting in person to go over your options.

      Thanks

      John Watts

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