You still own the house, you can still sell it, and the calendar you are working against is longer than the postcards suggest. What changed is that a document was recorded about eight miles northwest, at the county counter in Palm Desert, and it turned a private problem into a public one. That is why the mail started, and why the column of small charges on your October tax bill suddenly matters. It did not take the house.
We negotiate short sales throughout Southern California, and the Coachella Valley is its own animal. This page is foreclosure from an Indio address: which counters your file crosses, what a desert tax bill and title report turn up, and why the city may already have a folder on your house.
This page is general information, not legal or tax advice. No outcome can be guaranteed, and whether a short sale is approved is your lender’s decision.
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Can You Still Sell a House Facing Foreclosure in Indio, CA?
Yes — right up until the trustee’s sale is actually conducted. A recorded Notice of Default starts a clock; it does not take the house and it does not end your right to sell. If the price covers the loans, escrow pays them off and you are done. If it does not, you are running a short sale, and your lender has to approve the shortfall in writing. More on selling while behind on payments, and on the other ways to stop a California foreclosure.
How Long Do I Have Before the Trustee Sale in Indio?
Start to finish, a California foreclosure usually runs seven to eight months from the first missed payment — roughly 120 days before your servicer can begin, at least three months after the Notice of Default records, and at least twenty more days after that. A listing can add forty-five days on top under AB 2424.
More than the mail implies, then, and less than you would want. California runs foreclosure outside the courts, which makes it fast compared to most states but also makes every step visible in advance. Here is the sequence, with the clocks that matter. Treat them as how the process usually runs, not as a promise about your particular loan.
- The payments stop and the file goes quiet. Late fees, collection calls, then less contact rather than more. Under the federal servicing rules your servicer generally cannot take the first step in foreclosure until the loan is more than 120 days delinquent. Nothing is recorded yet, and nothing about this stage sits on a public index.Roughly the first 4 months
- The Notice of Default records. This is the moment your situation becomes public, and it is also the moment the solicitation mail begins — firms subscribe to the recorded index and write to every new name on it. From recording, the trustee must wait at least three months before it can take the next step. Most people get somewhere near a hundred days here, sometimes a few more.3 months minimum
- The Notice of Sale sets a date. Toward the end of the three months — the notice can record up to five days early — a Notice of Sale is recorded, posted and published, and the sale date can be no earlier than three months and twenty days after the Notice of Default was recorded. This document, not any letter you received, governs: it names the exact date, hour and place. Read it again after any postponement, because a new date can arrive with different particulars.3 months + 20 days from the NOD, minimum
- The postponement levers. Sales get pushed constantly — by the lender, by the trustee, or because a servicer with a complete loss-mitigation application in front of it is barred from proceeding. Separately, AB 2424, now Civil Code § 2924f(e), lets the owner of residential property of no more than four dwelling units force a one-time forty-five-day postponement. The homeowner has to get a listing agreement with a California licensed real estate broker, to be placed on a publicly available marketing platform, into the trustee’s hands at least five business days before the scheduled sale date, by certified mail or by an overnight courier whose tracking confirms signature and the date and time of receipt. Email does not trigger it, and missing the five-business-day cutoff forfeits the lever for that date. There is a second forty-five-day postponement for a signed purchase agreement, but the statute requires that contract’s price to equal or exceed everything recorded against the property — which a short-sale contract by definition does not. On a short sale the listing lever is generally the only one of the two available, which is a reason to pull it deliberately rather than reflexively.45+ more days — trustee must have it 5 business days out
- The sale is conducted. Until the auctioneer actually sells the property, your own right to sell it survives. The deadline is a specific hour on a specific morning, not a vague zone of no-return that started months ago.The real deadline
One more clock matters. If your complete loss-mitigation application lands more than 37 days before a scheduled sale, the servicer owes you an evaluation of the options actually available on your loan, a short sale among them. Inside 37 days those protections thin out considerably. That number is why we push a whole package in early rather than a tidy one late. What the servicer has to weigh is the whole menu, not just a sale — reinstatement, a loan modification, forbearance, a deed in lieu, and a short sale where the investor behind your loan makes one available. The full menu of foreclosure options is laid out separately.
One caveat matters more in the Coachella Valley than most places. Those federal protections, and most of California’s Homeowner Bill of Rights, reach only a loan secured by the borrower’s own principal residence, and small servicers are exempt from much of the federal rule. A second home, a short-term rental, or a house you have already moved out of may sit outside them entirely. Establishing which side of that line your loan falls on is a week-one question, not a week-ten surprise. The AB 2424 listing lever is the exception worth knowing: it is not limited to owner-occupied property.
Where Does an Indio Foreclosure Physically Happen?
Almost nowhere you would guess, which trips people up. The counters that touch your file sit in three different cities, and none of them is Indio.
The recording counter is in Palm Desert, not Indio
Riverside County’s Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder closed its Indio office and consolidated desert operations into a joint facility with the Treasurer-Tax Collector at 38-686 El Cerrito Road, Palm Desert, off Washington Street north of Interstate 10. The county lists six offices in all — two in Riverside, plus Palm Desert, Hemet, Temecula and Blythe — and Indio is not among them. Everything that legally attaches to your parcel crosses that counter: the Notice of Default, the Notice of Sale, any abstract of judgment, the reconveyance if this ends well. Property tax questions land at the same address.
The courthouse in town is not the one your case goes to
The Larson Justice Center at 46-200 Oasis Street is Indio’s courthouse, but it is the desert region’s criminal and family-law courthouse — felonies, misdemeanors, family law, domestic violence, traffic. Civil cases, small claims and unlawful detainers for Indio ZIP codes are filed and heard at the Palm Springs Courthouse, 3255 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, about thirty miles west. So the lawsuit that becomes a money judgment against you is heard in Palm Springs, not in town — and winning a judgment is still not the same as touching your house. Under Code of Civil Procedure § 697.310, the lien is created when an abstract of judgment is recorded, at that Palm Desert counter, on whatever date the creditor got around to it. The recording date, not the trial date, sets its place in line.
The auction is called about ninety miles from your driveway
Riverside County trustee’s sales are called in Corona, not in the desert — most often in the courtyard of the Historic Civic Center, 815 W. Sixth Street, and at 849 W. Sixth Street, the front entrance of the former Corona Police Department. Other locations turn up in notices too, and only your own Notice of Sale governs. What is worth absorbing is the geography: an Indio house is sold at a podium about ninety road miles and nearly two hours away, on a weekday morning, in a proceeding lasting under a minute.
What Is Riding on an Indio Property Tax Bill?
This is the section that saves Coachella Valley files. A Riverside County tax bill is not one number: underneath the ad valorem line sits a column of direct charges, and in Indio that column tends to be crowded. Generally none of it appears on a credit report, no servicer mentions it, and in practice all of it has to be cleared before a deed can transfer — the title company and the buyer’s lender will insist.
| What it is | How it got there | What it means in a sale |
|---|---|---|
| Sewer service (CVWD) | The Coachella Valley Water District bills most residential sanitation service annually on the property tax bill rather than monthly — one bill a year, folded into your taxes. | Falling behind on property taxes in Indio generally means falling behind on sewer too. It clears in escrow, quietly, and typically never touches your credit. |
| Mello-Roos special tax | A Community Facilities District formed by the city to finance infrastructure — Indio’s CFD No. 2004-3 (Terra Lago) is the best documented, with two separate improvement areas. | A special tax you disagree with is still a tax-bill line that must be current at closing. Delinquency rides on the roll, not on a statement. |
| PACE / HERO assessment | Solar, windows, HVAC or a new roof financed as a voluntary contractual assessment and repaid through the tax bill, commonly over five to twenty-five years. | Only the current and delinquent annual installments ride the roll. The unpaid balance runs with the property, so a buyer’s lender usually demands it be paid off at closing. |
| Landscape and lighting | An assessment under the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972 — street lights, medians, parkway maintenance in a specific benefit zone. | Usually modest and usually current. Worth confirming rather than worrying about. |
| County secured taxes | The ad valorem base, payable in two installments, delinquent after December 10 and April 10 with a ten percent penalty on each. | Handled through escrow like any payoff. After June 30 an unpaid parcel goes tax-defaulted and accrues redemption penalties monthly, so the number grows while a file sits. |
This is how these charges generally behave, not a reading of your parcel. Confirm what is actually on yours against your own tax bill and a preliminary title report, and take what it means for you to a qualified attorney or tax professional.
Terra Lago is the rare Mello-Roos with a paper trail anyone can read. Residents petitioned for tax relief, and the California State Auditor examined the district in 2014. It found the city had charged Improvement Area 1 roughly $2.6 million in water fees that primarily benefited Improvement Area 2. Even after a $2 million developer payment toward retiring bonds, about $1.2 million of Area 2’s costs was still sitting inside Area 1’s debt. Homeowners there have been carrying a number a state auditor called inequitable. In a sale it is still just a line that has to be current.
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Because since April 2008, Indio has required it. Under the city’s Registration and Maintenance of Abandoned Properties Ordinance, banks, lenders and trustees must inspect a property before recording a Notice of Default, and if that inspection — or any later look — finds the home vacant or abandoned, the lender is required to register it with code enforcement. The city built the program after the last downturn filled its neighborhoods with empty houses, and the duty sits on the lender, not on you.
There is a practical consequence, and it runs in your favor. A house that is plainly lived in is not an abandoned property. Occupied, watered, lights on, mail collected — and it does not enter that file, which means it does not enter the inspection and citation cycle that eventually produces abatement charges. Homeowners sometimes move out the week a Notice of Default arrives, believing the house is already gone. In Indio that decision has a cost attached, and the house was not already gone.
If citations have already started, the exposure splits two ways. A city may record a nuisance abatement cost as a lien, or place it on the tax roll as a special assessment. Those are alternatives. The recorded lien takes a judgment lien’s priority from its recording date, so a mortgage recorded earlier sits ahead of it; the tax-roll route carries an express protection for a bona fide purchaser or encumbrancer whose interest attached before the first installment went delinquent, in which case the charge moves to the unsecured roll. Either way it turns on which route was used and when your mortgage attached, not on any automatic rule. Our guide to selling a California house with a lien on it walks through how each type behaves in a sale.
What Does a Short Sale in Indio Actually Involve?
Five stages. The ranges below are what these steps usually take, not commitments. Most files produce at least one item nobody could have priced in advance.
- Order the direct assessments first. Before anything else on a Coachella Valley file we pull what is actually riding the tax bill, because a PACE payoff or a CFD arrears can move the arithmetic by five figures and it will not appear on any payoff statement your servicer sends. Alongside it: loan payoffs, everything recorded against title, a defensible Indio value, and whether a sale date already exists. If it turns out you have equity, we say so plainly and you sell the ordinary way.Same week
- Authorization, then one complete submission. No servicer discusses your loan with anyone until a signed third-party authorization is on file, so that goes first. Then the package travels as a single unit: listing agreement, hardship letter, financial worksheet, statements, preliminary title. Sent in pieces it starts no clock at all — it buys a polite letter, three weeks later, listing what was missing.1 to 3 weeks
- Set a price that survives two tests. It has to attract a buyer who can actually close and hold up against the valuation your lender orders. Too high and the file dies slowly through reductions while the sale date closes in; too low and the value review rejects a deal you spent two months assembling.2 weeks to 2 months
- Work every approval at once. Lender review, a valuation challenge if the broker price opinion comes back wrong, the second lienholder, a judgment creditor, the association’s demand, a PACE payoff quote, the city’s abatement balance. Running those in sequence is how short sales expire, so they open together and get chased together, in writing, with dates.30 to 120 days
- Approval, then an ordinary closing on a hard deadline. A written approval, if one comes, arrives with an expiration printed on its face, and the file finishes like any escrow with a real end date. Some files never reach that letter, and whether yours does is your lender’s call rather than ours. Our commission is written into the settlement the lender approves and paid from sale proceeds at closing — no upfront fee at any point.2 to 5 weeks
Since a recorded Notice of Default generates so much mail, one distinction deserves stating outright. Most of it comes from investors who would like to buy the house below market — a legitimate business, and simply a different one. Buying a house takes money. Negotiating a lender’s payoff for compensation, on someone else’s behalf, takes a California real estate license or a law license — and it is a licensed brokerage’s listing agreement, not an investor’s offer, that an AB 2424 postponement runs on.
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The mortgage is rarely the only thing. Every one of these has to be dealt with, because a lienholder who is not paid has no reason to release, and without releases nothing transfers. Each is negotiable, and each one negotiates on different terms.
A judgment from a Riverside County case
A card balance, a medical bill, a business that folded. The judgment itself does not touch the house; the abstract recorded afterward does, and its recording date fixes its priority. Judgment creditors are often willing to negotiate a reduced payoff, though whether yours will is its own decision, and California’s homestead exemption may help your position depending on your circumstances. More on selling a house with a judgment lien.
A federal or state tax lien
An IRS Notice of Federal Tax Lien attaches to everything you own, but it does not stop a sale. Where the property is worth less than the senior debt, the IRS can discharge its lien so the closing proceeds — requested on Form 14135, Application for Certificate of Discharge (Form 14134 is the parallel subordination request). The IRS asks for that application at least forty-five days before closing, and the Franchise Tax Board and CDTFA have their own procedures. All of it takes lead time, which is the argument for pulling title in week one. See selling a house with a tax lien.
HOA assessments in a valley full of associations
Indio is dense with planned communities and age-qualified developments — Sun City Shadow Hills alone runs to roughly 3,400 homes, Heritage Palms adds about a thousand more, and Indian Palms is guard-gated around a 27-hole course — so association debt shows up on a large share of files here. A California HOA lien is not super-priority — it is prior only to liens recorded after the notice of delinquent assessment, so in the ordinary case it sits behind a first mortgage — and Davis-Stirling imposes real procedure before an association can record: an itemized pre-lien notice, a thirty-day window, an offer of dispute resolution, and statutory limits on when it can foreclose at all. Some associations will negotiate a demand; many will not. See selling a house with an HOA lien.
A PACE or HERO balance you may have inherited from the seller
Property Assessed Clean Energy financing arrived across the Coachella Valley in the mid-2010s, and a decade of solar and HVAC contracts later, plenty of desert parcels carry one. It is not a loan on your credit report; it is an assessment on your tax bill that survives a change of ownership, and buyers’ lenders routinely require it retired at closing. If you bought the house used, you may be carrying one you never signed.
A second mortgage or HELOC
The junior lender has to approve too, and its incentives differ: at a trustee’s sale it very likely gets nothing, which is exactly the leverage that makes a negotiated release possible. What it can accept is capped by the investor guidelines behind the first loan, and those caps vary by loan type.
Lien priority, the homestead exemption and lien-release procedures all turn on your specific documents and recording dates. This is general information — confirm your own situation with a qualified California attorney or tax professional before relying on any of it.
After the Sale, Will I Still Owe Money?
Two different questions live inside that one, and they have different answers.
Can the lender come after me for the shortfall?
California’s anti-deficiency statutes are unusually protective, and one was written for exactly this transaction. Code of Civil Procedure § 580e bars a deficiency on a note secured solely by a deed of trust on a dwelling of not more than four units where the lender consented in writing to the short sale, and it reaches consenting junior lienholders too. Its limits matter: it does not protect a borrower that is a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership, and it carves out fraud and waste. Two more things § 580e does: it bars the holder from demanding any additional payment from you, beyond the sale proceeds, in exchange for consenting to the sale, and it makes any purported waiver of that protection void as against public policy. Separately, § 580b protects purchase-money loans on an owner-occupied dwelling of not more than four units — and a refinance executed on or after January 1, 2013 stays purchase-money except as to new principal advanced that was not applied to the old loan or to the costs of the refinance, while a refinance executed before that date can strip the protection altogether. Which applies to your note is a question for a California attorney, and it is why an approval letter gets read closely before anyone signs. Fuller treatment: deficiency judgments after a short sale.
What about taxes on the forgiven amount?
Forgiven debt can be reportable income, and a lender that forgives $600 or more generally issues a Form 1099-C. The federal exclusion for qualified principal residence indebtedness — the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act provision — reached only debt discharged before January 1, 2026, or debt subject to an arrangement entered into and evidenced in writing before that date. For a discharge happening now it generally does not apply, though a file working off an approval or agreement papered in 2025 is worth raising with a CPA, and California has not conformed to the exclusion since 2013, so state treatment can differ from federal in either direction. What is permanent is the insolvency exclusion: to the extent your liabilities exceeded the fair market value of your assets immediately before the discharge, the cancelled debt is excluded, claimed on Form 982. Non-recourse debt is a different analysis entirely and does not produce cancellation-of-debt income at all, though it can still produce a taxable gain. This is genuinely a CPA question and not a real estate one. Background: 1099-C after a short sale in California.
Which of These Sounds Like Your Indio Situation?
The rental income the purchase was built on did not hold up
A lot of Indio buying was underwritten on festival weekends and winter-season nights. The city requires a short-term rental permit and business license running well over a thousand dollars a year, plus a safety inspection, liability coverage, transient occupancy tax, occupancy caps, the permit number on every listing, and a fine schedule the council has been sharpening ahead of Coachella and Stagecoach. When the permit, the fines and the calendar stop covering the note, the gap is structural rather than a bad month — and structural is exactly the hardship a lender is set up to evaluate.
A fixed income against a tax bill that keeps growing
Retirement income does not move; sewer rates, special taxes and insurance do. Where a meaningful share of the annual bill is direct assessments rather than the ad valorem base, the squeeze arrives on one October statement rather than gradually. It is a legitimate hardship, documented with the same worksheet as any other.
You inherited a house with more debt than value
The loan does not die with the borrower, and neither do the tax-bill lines. Heirs are frequently out of state, and the property quietly accrues charges while the estate sorts itself out. Whether you have authority to sell depends on how title is held and what the estate documents say, so that gets established before anything is listed. Related: how a probate sale works.
It was listed for months and never sold
Sometimes the price was wrong. More often the agent worked it like a normal listing without realizing the file needed lender approval, so the offer arrived and then sat while nobody negotiated the payoff. A stalled listing is rarely evidence the house cannot sell — usually it is evidence nobody was running the lender side of it.
You already moved and the house is sitting empty
This is the one that costs the most in Indio, because an empty house is what triggers the lender’s registration duty and, after that, the city’s attention. Pool, landscaping, a broken window, an open gate — each is a potential abatement cost that lands on the parcel. If the house is already vacant, get the file moving and keep someone looking in on it meanwhile.
Who Has to Approve an Indio Short Sale — and What Do They Care About?
Loan type determines almost everything: what documents are required, how a value gets challenged, how much a junior lienholder can be paid, how fast anyone moves. It is the first thing we establish on a new file.
| Loan type | How the short sale runs | What tends to decide it |
|---|---|---|
| FHA | A Pre-Foreclosure Sale under HUD’s program, with its own participation rules and an appraisal-driven net. | Timing changes how the program works rather than closing it off: once the first legal action to initiate foreclosure has occurred, the file generally needs an acceptable contract already in hand, with the window sized to closing escrow. See FHA short sales. |
| VA | What VA long called a compromise sale its servicer handbook now titles a short sale. Some situations need VA pre-approval rather than servicer discretion. | Whether a partial claim, a COVID partial claim payment or a COVID refund modification sits in the loan’s history — each is a pre-approval trigger. See VA compromise sales. |
| Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac | Worked inside the enterprise’s guidelines, with published caps on what a junior lienholder can be paid. | The valuation, and whether the hardship documentation matches the story. These stall most often on a value nobody challenged. |
| Conventional / portfolio | The investor behind the loan sets the rules, and they are not published anywhere you can read them. | Getting a straight answer early about who the investor actually is. Files where nobody asked are the ones that surprise people at week ten. |
None of this is a promise about your file — it is the map we start from, and the first two weeks are spent confirming which square you are on. For the wider view rather than the Indio version: the California short sale process, short sale versus foreclosure, how long a short sale takes, and selling a house in foreclosure in Los Angeles.
Indio Foreclosure Questions
Where is the trustee sale held for an Indio property?
Not in Indio, and not anywhere close. Riverside County notices most often name the courtyard of the Historic Civic Center at 815 W. Sixth Street in Corona, or 849 W. Sixth Street, the front entrance of the former Corona Police Department — about ninety road miles and nearly two hours from the Coachella Valley. Other locations turn up too. Only your own Notice of Sale controls: it states the exact place, date and time, and it should be re-read after any postponement, because a new date can come with different particulars.
There is no county recorder’s office in Indio — where does my paperwork go?
Riverside County consolidated its desert operations, so the Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder no longer has an Indio office. Recording for Indio parcels happens at 38-686 El Cerrito Road in Palm Desert, off Washington Street north of Interstate 10, in a joint facility that also handles Treasurer-Tax Collector business; the county’s other offices are in Riverside, Hemet, Temecula and Blythe. That is where your Notice of Default already went, where any abstract of judgment was recorded, and where a reconveyance would be recorded if this ends with a sale.
Can I still sell after the Notice of Default has been recorded?
Yes. The recording changes what is public about your situation, not who owns the house or who may sell it. You can sell at any point before the trustee’s sale is actually conducted, as long as escrow closes or the sale is postponed before that date. If the proceeds will not cover the loans, the closing needs your lender’s written approval — the lender’s decision, which nobody else can promise. The earlier the file starts, the more of the runway is usable.
Is a short sale better for my credit than a foreclosure?
The two are reported differently, and lenders treat them differently afterward, but neither is painless and no one can tell you in advance what your score will do — that depends on how far behind the account already is, what else is on your report and how your servicer codes the settlement. What a short sale does give you is a documented, negotiated close rather than a completed foreclosure on the record, and more control over the timing. We lay the two side by side on short sale versus foreclosure in California. For anything about future financing, ask a lender to run your actual file rather than relying on a rule of thumb.
Who pays the property taxes and HOA dues while a short sale is pending?
You are still the owner until escrow closes, so the obligations stay yours on paper — but in practice most sellers in this position are not paying them, and that is normal and expected. Delinquent property taxes, special taxes and association assessments are ordinarily settled out of the sale proceeds at closing, as line items your lender has to approve as part of the settlement. What matters is that every one of them is identified early, because a balance discovered in week six can cost a month, and on an Indio parcel several of those balances are riding the tax bill rather than arriving as invoices.
What does a short sale cost me?
Nothing up front, and nothing to us if it does not close. Our fee is a commission written into the settlement your lender approves and paid out of the sale proceeds at closing, so a file that never closes never produces a bill from us. That is our fee, though — it is not a claim that a short sale is free overall. Depending on your loan, your lienholders and your circumstances you could still face a junior-lienholder contribution, an association balance your lender declines to cover, tax on forgiven debt, or a deficiency in the situations California’s anti-deficiency statutes do not reach. Those are questions for a qualified attorney or tax professional. And if anyone asks a homeowner in foreclosure for money in advance, ask in writing what license they hold and what the fee buys before paying it.
Know Where You Actually Stand
Three facts are enough for a first conversation: whether a date has been set, what loans are against the house, and what else is recorded or riding on the tax bill. With those, we can tell you honestly what your options look like and how much runway is left. No pressure, no upfront fees, ever.
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Who Handles Your File
We Sell Houses LA is the name Nicholas Hedberg does business under. He holds a California real estate salesperson license, DRE #02016456. His license sits with Beverly & Company, DRE #02078273, the broker responsible for real estate activity carried out under this name, and he negotiates the lender and the lienholders himself on every file he takes. The license is not a formality: it is what puts a licensed brokerage’s listing agreement — the document AB 2424 runs on — behind your file.
On a Coachella Valley file the avoidable disaster is almost always a tax-bill line nobody read — a PACE payoff, a CFD arrears, a sewer balance inside the annual taxes — turning up in week six and costing a month there was no month to spare. So the direct assessments get ordered before the sign goes in the yard. The rest is deliberately unglamorous: every submission confirmed in writing, every call logged, an escalation the same day a file goes quiet.
Illustrative description of how we work a file, not a specific client outcome. Every file is different, results vary, and no outcome or timeline can be guaranteed.
As of September 2026, Nick’s client rating on Zillow is 5.0 across 12 client reviews.
Nick is a great real estate agent. He is extremely knowledgeable and stuck by me trying to navigate this crazy market. I was glad to have him represent me when it came time to negotiate. If you want a professional and hard working agent, do not hesitate to work with Nick.— Alexander M. (Zillow)
This review is from one of Nick’s general listing clients, not a short sale, and is one client’s experience rather than a guarantee of how your sale will go. Short sales are negotiated with your lender and close for less than what is owed.
Indio, La Quinta, Coachella, Bermuda Dunes, Thermal, Palm Desert — we negotiate short sales across Southern California. Elsewhere in Riverside County, see Hemet; in the Inland Empire, San Bernardino or Victorville; in the Antelope Valley, Lancaster and Palmdale. When you are ready, contact our short sale team. Still weighing it? The Los Angeles short sale agent hub, selling while behind on payments, what to do about a Notice of Default and your foreclosure options are the next reads.
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