Countless seminars and how-to books promise to turn even the most novice buyer into a high-powered real estate investor through the magic of foreclosed homes. The trouble is the dream of instant, safe, trouble-free wealth often turns out to be like most things that sound too good to be true—a scam. If easy money was to be made, everyone would be getting rich off of foreclosures.

Foreclosure is the legal method by which lenders or governmental agencies take properties from owners who fail to make payments, and then resell those homes to recoup money owed them.

Nonpayment of a mortgage or home equity loan is the most common reason a home gets foreclosed, but it is far from the only reason. But people could also be facing a foreclosure because of a balloon payment, not paying property taxes, not carrying enough insurance, or even failing to keep the property in good working condition.

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