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Don't Leave Your Pets Behind
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By Rony Walker

Not all home loans or mortgages do well. There are several sad reasons for it - job termination, increase in interest rates, ballooning monthly bills, and delayed payments of monthly bills. When your refinance mortgage loan is seeing red, make plans ahead and include your pets in your disaster preparedness plan.

Dogs, Cats, and Alligators?

The rise of foreclosures in Stockton, California has filled pet shelters to the rafters. According to the January AP report, homeowners leave the pets behind. Perhaps they hope that the foreclosing officers find them in time before they breathe their last. Fortunately, nobody has left behind their pet alligators and pythons to scare foreclosing officers out of their wits. At least for now, this is a consolation from the refinance mortgage loan and home loans gone astray.

Not that absconding homeowners are hard-hearted creatures. They've got a long list of problems and losing a cherished home to foreclosure can cloud sound judgment and sentiments. When a refinance mortgage loan goes bust, the specter of homelessness can stare mockingly at anyone in the face. With this burden - emotional and financial - pets are forgotten.

If you're suspecting a call from the mortgage company, take stock of things and be brutally honest of the decisions best for you, your family, and your poor pets. The decision to bring or not to bring the pets along should be discussed with your family. Children have a lot to say about their pets, and enforcing the decision to leave the pets behind can traumatize children and influence the way they look at the world around them. You don't want to raise heartless adults, do you?

What to Do In a Crazy Time Like This?

This issue is a new phenomenon resulting from the wave of foreclosures happening in the country as thousands have busted their refinance mortgage loan and home loans. But when people are forced to face the wall, they do crazy things like leaving pets behind, dismantling floors, breaking windows, and spraying graffiti on the walls. If they could burn the house, they would, but that's looking at years behind the slammer.

The only way they could have avoided the embarrassment and pain of losing their homes to foreclosures was paying the monthly bills of their refinance mortgage loan on time. Well, this is easier said than done and times and fortunes are unpredictable.

Here are tips to ease your family and pets for an agonizing transition:

* Discuss the impending disaster with the family and ask for their suggestions for the move.
* If the children want to bring their pets, look for homes that allow pets.
* If things deteriorate, explain to the kids why their pets cannot go with you to the new home.
* Have your pets up for adoption as early as possible before there's too much competition.
* Call an animal shelter to give temporary board and lodging for your pet/s until things settle down.
* Agree to a humane euthanasia rather than have your pets die a horrible death on the streets or at the garage.

Please Don't Leave Your Pets Behind

Your pets have given you years of pleasure and loyalty, even your alligator and python. To abandon them is the ultimate act of cruelty to animals. It is a fact that times are difficult now and it costs to feed and maintain pets. To avoid this dilemma, act early when your refinance mortgage loan is going from boom to bust. Search for suitable homes before the rumblings of foreclosure gets into your sphere. Be kind to your pets.

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By samandpat @ Wednesday, July 02, 2008 8:29 PM
This is not really a comment,but I will tell you as I find it. We don't live in the States,we are in Lachute, quebec,Canada. We are looking for a small house to rent.Looking in our local papers we only see at least 98% say no animals and the other 2% don't say anything, not until you go to look at the house, apt. etc. then once they hear you have dogs (especially) they hum and haw and say well you know,we have someone else that seems to be interested,if I don't hear from them by such and such a time, I will call you.You know what, they never phone back.Animals are your life time family,not to have to give them up. I wish there were solutions for these heartbreaking problems. Is there anyone with an anwser?

By samandpat @ Wednesday, July 02, 2008 8:29 PM
This is not really a comment,but I will tell you as I find it. We don't live in the States,we are in Lachute, quebec,Canada. We are looking for a small house to rent.Looking in our local papers we only see at least 98% say no animals and the other 2% don't say anything, not until you go to look at the house, apt. etc. then once they hear you have dogs (especially) they hum and haw and say well you know,we have someone else that seems to be interested,if I don't hear from them by such and such a time, I will call you.You know what, they never phone back.Animals are your life time family,not to have to give them up. I wish there were solutions for these heartbreaking problems. Is there anyone with an anwser?

By myhoneybell @ Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:18 PM
I am a landlord. I DO allow pets. One dog, one cat.
In my experience, the people are far more destructive than any dog or cat has ever been. My suggestion:

Offer to pay an extra damage deposit. What the landlord is concerned about is damage to the house. Express to them that you are very responsible with your pets and will take great care to limit any damages. Also, tell them you re willing to put in the lease that YOU are responsible for any damage your pet may cause. I doubt you will find apartments very accommodating, but you may find landlords of tenants more understanding. Finally, keep your promises. This will leave the door open for a following tenant with a pet. Hope this helps.

By Toocool @ Saturday, July 12, 2008 6:45 AM
I know about pets being left behind first hand. One of my companions is a purebred dachie that was left in a house that was sold. I work for a real estate company and an agent found this dog. The owners did not want her -so she was brought to our office in hopes that someone would adopt her. Of course it was love at first sight. She has become a wonderful sweet and loyal companion , a blessing! We have several agents in our office that have taken in pets dogs, cats, birds and even an water dragon lizard. I can not understand how one can just walk away and abandon part of their family!

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