Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

For whatever reason someone has dropped the ball on your short sale. As far as the bank is concerned you have not proceeded with a short sale and so they are going forward with the foreclosure. Whether that is your fault or their's cannot be determined from your question. If you really want to do a short sale, you should take whatever documents and letters you have received to an attorney for review. However, you should realize that a short sale rarely has any benefit to the borrower/seller. Fair Isaacs, the company that owns the proprietary algorithms that all the credit reporting agencies license to come up with their scores, has long been on record that their formulas score a foreclosure and a short sale EXACTLY the same. So the only ones to benefit from a short sale are the bank and the real estate agents who do the sale. So you may not want to waste money on a lawyer.