Homes For Sale: Clare Wilson's Story Homes For Sale: Clare Wilson's Story
If you've spiralled into a terrifying financial situation, take heart, because you're not alone. In today's volatile housing and job market, many people across the nation are facing repossession and bankruptcy due to no fault of their own. You may feel as though there is no way out of your situation, but there is an option you probably haven't thought of - selling your house and renting it back.
Two years ago, single mum Clare Wilson was facing exactly this same situation. After she became disabled due to debilitating arthritis, Clare could no longer work. She received a small amount of money each month from disability benefits, but it was just not enough to pay her mortgage, let alone eat and care for her two teenage boys.
Clare felt trapped and hopeless after wrestling with huge bills and debts for three years. She was to the point where she thought she would have to sell the home she had called hers for thirty years. She'd rental prices in the area and found that she couldn't afford them, so she resigned herself to moving with her two sons into a relative's home. She could find no homes for sale that she could conceivably purchase, and she was almost out of hope.
Fortunately at the time that her home was coming under the foreclosure process a friend of Clare gave her a call to tell her that she had figured out how to sell and rent back her home. This news excited Clare and after she did some inquiring realized that this was something that she could do, and she wouldn't have to end up losing her home in the process. The fear of having the for sale sign up in front of her house was alleviated.
Note how the process of sell and rent back works. A real estate firm dealing in repossessions and foreclosures buys Clare's home. A representative of the company would sit with her and help her decide the monthly rental rate most suitable for her. In this she could select one that is low enough but still be able to make ends meet, but not so low where getting back her house would be quite long. The good thing about this is that the properties to rent back like Clare's would never change ownership.
She was building up her equity in the house with a payment each and every month. The choice belonged to her, to just pay rent every month until the home was eventually purchased or until she could save up enough or improve her situation to the point where she was able to buy house outright. The rent might even be lower than the average amount in the neighborhood. The house was hers to rent or buy, whichever she chose. Without even having to move out of the house, she could sell it and then rent it back.