ForeclosureSelfDefense.com is the official blog and website for Foreclosure Self-Defense For Dummies, a great new book (February 2008) that can help you save your home, keep your equity, and re-establish your credit!

If you can’t make your house payments or received a notice of default or foreclosure notice from your lender, and you are running out of precious time, then this blog may help.

Most people facing foreclosure mistakenly believe that they have only two options: pay up or get out. But the as the authors of Foreclosure Self-Defense For Dummies, we can tell you that is simply not true. In our book, and here on our blog, we reveal and expand upon over a dozen options for saving your home or getting out from under it, including:

• File for bankruptcy
• Reinstate the mortgage (by catching up on missed payments)
• Negotiate a forbearance
• Refinance your way out of trouble
• Sell to an investor and buying it back
• Negotiate a short sale (convince the lender to accept less than you owe)
• Redeem your home after the auction (buying it back)
• Sell the home yourself (to reclaim more of your equity)
• Walk away… without having to throw good money after bad
• Offer a deed in lieu of foreclosure
• Stall… through the courts and other delays

If you or someone you know is facing foreclosure, our no-nonsense book and blog can help you size up all your options and increase your chances of saving your home. You’ll see how to delay foreclosure, form a plan of attack, negotiate solutions with your lender, and restore your financial health. We’ll also share field-tested strategies for dodging the foreclosure trap or getting out from under a house you really can’t afford.