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Foreclosure Survival Guide

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Foreclosure Survival Guide (1st Edition)

How Long Can You Delay the Sale of Your House?

As you might expect, contesting a foreclosure in a judicial foreclosure state is very different than doing so in a nonjudicial foreclosure state. (If you don’t know which kind you’re likely to come up against, see Ch. 2 or your state’s page in the appendix.) And the amount of delay you’re likely to get depends on the procedure, too.