Question: I am thinking about conducting a short sale on a condo I have in Palos Verdes. I have a home in Orange County that has some amount of equity, and I’m doing alright in my 401k. Doing a short sale with my mortgage lender will not risk my other assets, will it? If I am unable to do a short sale with the condo and end up having to lose it in foreclosure, what will happen? And will the tax liability be the same for either outcome?

Answer: If you bought the Palos Verdes condominium with a mortgage loan, a foreclosure will terminate the bank’s rights to any of your other assets. If the mortgage lender agrees to let you do a short sale, you should also end up with no liability to the lender, unless part of the agreement was reimbursing the lender the discrepancy of your loan and the sale.

Basically, you shouldn’t have any liability for the short-sale-difference unless that was originally part of the agreement.  Then of course you’ll be responsible to those payments in  whatever form you agreed to make them.

As for the tax issues, keep in mind that the IRS doesn’t recognize any tax liability whatsoever for forgiving non-recourse debt.

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