Foreclosure
Yes, until the auction in Missouri, or until the court confirms the sheriff’s sale in Kansas. Foreclosure means the lender started the process, not that the auction already happened. After that point, the sale is no longer yours.
Foreclosure means the lender has started the process to take the house. It does not mean the auction already happened. In Missouri you can usually sell until the auction. In Kansas you can usually sell until the court confirms the sheriff’s sale. After that, the sale is no longer yours.
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In Kansas City
Missed payments, a pre-foreclosure notice, and a scheduled sale are three stages. This page is the third. Tax foreclosure is a different case and lives on the tax pages.
If you have missed payments and no sale date, start with the behind-on-payments page. If the loan is in default and a sale is not set, use the pre-foreclosure page. If you have a notice of sale, a court case, or an auction date, you are on this page.
After the federal 120-day wait, the lender can publish a notice of sale. You can sell until the auction. Jackson County sales are commonly tied to the courthouse at 415 E 12th Street in Kansas City. The notice in your hand is the date that matters.
The lender files a lawsuit. Johnson County cases go through the 10th Judicial District in Olathe. Wyandotte County cases go through the 29th Judicial District in Kansas City, Kansas. The court process is often several months, longer than Missouri. A sheriff’s sale date is still a hard stop.
Jackson County can sell a house for delinquent taxes through the court Delinquent Land Tax sale under RSMo Chapter 141. Kansas counties can file a tax foreclosure under K.S.A. 79-2801. If the paper is from the county collector and not your mortgage lender, use the back-taxes page.
Opening bids often start at the loan balance plus fees. If nobody bids more, the lender takes the house. A sale before that date uses a title company, pays the lender, and pays you what is left. If nothing is left, the sale is a short sale and the lender has to agree.
A completed foreclosure can stay on a credit report for years. A sale that pays the loan can show the mortgage as paid instead of foreclosed. Late payments that are already on the report stay there. We do not claim a sale erases them.
Your choices
The auction date does not care which option you prefer. Pick the one that can actually finish.
Keep the house
If you can bring the loan current, you keep the house. Call the lender.
A retail sale
Listing can net more when the sale date is far enough out for showings and a buyer’s loan.
What Saving KC does
There is no buyer’s loan, so a clear file can close faster. The price is what we can pay, not retail.
You lose control of the price
You might leave with nothing. You might leave with a foreclosure on your credit.
A number you can read
We will tell you if a closing can happen before that date. If it cannot, you still have the lender’s number and the days you have left.
What we actually do
Speed is the point. Honesty about the date is the other point. We would rather tell you we cannot make it than let you miss the auction waiting on us.
Call or send the address, the county, and any sale date or case number. We will say whether a cash closing can beat that date.
We look at the house. With your permission we request the lender payoff. The written offer shows the price. The settlement statement later shows the payoff and what you keep.
A signed contract and proof of funds are what lenders usually want before they postpone. Some will not postpone. You should ask them too. We do not control their sale.
Saving KC bought the house as-is so the sellers could move through a life event without a repair project and without a foreclosure path. First call was December 5, 2023. Closing was February 28, 2024. That is 85 days, not a week. No seller name, quote, or price was published.
Mr. Jennings sold a home on Noland Road in Shawnee with a reverse mortgage. Repairs were factored into the offer. Signing to close was about 22 days. The first call was much earlier. The price is not published. The public story is framed as avoiding reverse-mortgage foreclosure. It is one file, not a template.
The money and the stuff
Equity is what is left after the payoff. Some houses have it. Some do not. The offer is how you find out.
If the price covers the loan, taxes, and other liens, you keep the rest. The title company writes those checks. You do not bring the arrears in cash.
That is a short sale. The lender has to agree in writing to take less. You may still owe a deficiency unless the lender releases it. We will not promise a waiver the lender has not signed.
You do not repair it to stop the sale. Foundation problems, fire damage, or a code notice do not block an offer. They change the number.
Take what you need before closing. Leave the rest. If a sale date is days away, move the essentials first and do not wait on a perfect cleanout.
Ernest Dodson is a Missouri-licensed real estate salesperson with Platinum Realty LLC, license #2023026433. Saving KC Homebuyers LLC buys real estate as a principal. We may assign the purchase contract to another buyer, and we tell you when we do.
Questions
These answers are about this situation. They are not legal advice. The company list is on the FAQ page.
We will tell you if a closing can happen before that date. If it cannot, you still have the lender’s number and the days you have left.
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