HonestForeclosure.com
From the desk of Chris Curry · Real estate broker since 1998

One piece of paper stops your foreclosure. Then you get an honest cash offer.

No lowballs. Nobody offering you 60 cents on the dollar and calling it a favor.

You pay nothing. Not for the paper, not for the offer, not to me. Ever.

It starts with one honest conversation. No cost, no obligation, and nothing to sign.

Hi, I'm Chris Curry.

Licensed real estate broker since 1998. I've worked with 3,952 families. And I started fighting banks in 2008 — not as a strategy, but because one of them was coming after my own house.

Nobody was there for me that year. No one told me there were rules. No one told me what the paperwork could do, or how fast the clock actually moved, or that the people mailing me postcards were counting on me being too scared to do the math.

I lost that house.

I wish somebody had been there for me in 2008. That's the entire reason this page exists.

So here's what I do now, and it's two things:

One — I stop the foreclosure. One piece of paper, filed correctly and on time, forces your servicer to stop and review your file before they can sell your house. I build it for you. It costs you nothing.

Two — I get you an honest cash offer. Not one guy with a number. Several cash buyers, competing for your house. You pay nothing, you owe nothing, and if you don't like the number, you walk away and keep the paperwork.

Both of them start the same way: with one honest conversation. Not a pitch, not a script, not a pressure call. You tell me what's actually happening. I tell you the truth about your options, including the ones where I make nothing.

Dear Friend,

Let me tell you about two men who lived eleven houses apart on the same street.

I'll call them I Don't Know Bob and Make One Call Jack. You'll see why.

Same floor plan. Same builder. Both bought in 2017.

Both worked for the same contractor. Both got cut the same October.

Both fell four payments behind. Both got the notice with the sale date on it the same week.

Both had $210,750 of equity. I'm not rounding that.

Both got 19 postcards, 82 phone calls, and 93 text messages in 17 days.

Both had one investor's cash offer sitting on the kitchen counter. Same number on both.

Both were awake at 4:47 in the morning, scrolling in the bathroom so the light wouldn't wake their wife.

Jack made one phone call. Bob said I don't know.

That's the only difference. Everything after this is what it cost.

Eleven houses apart. Same builder, same bank, same offer on the counter.

Six months later

“I Don't Know” Bob

Bob lost over two hundred thousand dollars — and he never made a single bad decision.

That's the part people get wrong about him. Bob wasn't careless. Bob was careful.

The offer on his counter was $249,000 on a house worth $415,000. He sat down with a legal pad and worked it out and said no.

He was right to say no. That offer was reaching for $166,000 of his money and calling itself a favor.

Then somebody offered him a conversation. Free. No obligation. And Bob said the two words that cost him everything:

I don't know.

I don't know if it's a scam. I don't know if I should tell her yet. I don't know if I have time. I don't know, let me think about it.

Every one of those sounded like the grown-up thing to say. Every one of them burned days off a clock he couldn't afford. And every day that clock ran, his options got smaller and the lowball got closer to being the only thing left.

The notice ran in the paper for five straight weeks with his address in it. The house went to auction. Nobody bid past what the bank was owed.

The $210,750 didn't get stolen by anybody in particular. It just stopped existing.

Bob never said yes to a bad deal. He just never said yes to a conversation.

VS
“Make One Call” Jack

Jack walked away with $192,000. Forty-one days from that call to the check.

Same house. Same bank. Same $249,000 offer sitting on his counter too.

The difference is Jack picked up the phone, and it cost him nothing to find out.

We had an honest conversation. Not a pitch. Fifteen minutes. I asked what he owed, what he thought the house was worth, and what the notice actually said. He asked me how I get paid. I told him.

Nothing was signed. Nothing was owed. He could have hung up and kept everything I'd told him.

Then I stopped the foreclosure. One piece of paper. The sale date came off the calendar.

That bought the only thing that matters in this business: time. And in this business, time is money — literally, in dollars, as you're about to see.

Then, instead of one investor with one take-it-or-leave-it number, I put Jack's house in front of several cash buyers who had to compete for it.

Winning offer: $396,250. Cash. No repairs, no showings, no strangers walking his kitchen.

He paid no commission and no closing costs, because the buyer covered both. So the check was the whole number: $192,000.

His kids finished the semester at the same school.

Bob and Jack were the same in every way but one
Bob never said yes to a bad deal. He just never said yes to a conversation.

The same house, three ways.

Same address. Same debt. Same week. Here's the arithmetic.

Bob did nothing
Took the one offer
Jack let them compete
What the house was worth
$415,000
$415,000
$415,000
What they were offered
— auction
$249,000
$396,250
Payoff + back payments + fees
−$204,250
−$204,250
−$204,250
Commission
$0
$0
$0
Closing costs
$0
$0
$0
Check to the family
$0
$44,750
$192,000

Two columns in that table do all the work.

The middle one is the offer sitting in your kitchen right now. Roughly 60% of what your house is worth — and that's not an accusation, that's just the business. Most investors buying foreclosures work off about that number, because that's what makes the deal profitable for them. Nothing illegal. Nothing even hidden. It's printed right on the paper, along with no commission, no fees, we pay all closing costs.

All of that is true. And it still costs you $147,250.

The right-hand one isn't magic. It's arithmetic. One buyer names a number that's good for him. Several buyers bidding against each other name a number that's good for you. I don't set that price. I can't. The competition sets it, and my only job is to make sure the room is full.

$147,250
The difference between one offer and several.

About these numbers, because I'd rather over-explain than round: the $192,000 net and the 41 days are from a real closing. The purchase price, payoff, and closing costs shown above are a representative case built to match that outcome — your house, your loan, and your county will produce different figures. Bring me yours and I'll run this exact table on your actual numbers, free.

Before you believe a word of that — go check me.

I'm asking you to trust me with the biggest financial decision of your life. So years ago I put something in the public record on purpose, so you'd never have to take my word for anything.

In 2014, a bank forgave an entire mortgage I owed on a rental property. One hundred percent. Free and clear. That's a different event from losing my family's home — that happened years earlier, and I've never pretended otherwise.

Public Record · Verify Before You Trust Me
Property
2104 SW 14th Street, Gainesville, Florida (a rental I owned)
Lender
SunTrust
Mortgage forgiven
December 8, 2014
Recorded
Alachua County Clerk — Book 4214, Page 1882, Instrument #3047192
Chris Curry, licensed real estate brokerRelease of Mortgage from SunTrust for 2104 SW 14th Street, Gainesville FL, recorded December 8 2014
The same guy from the videos — and the record that backs it up.

Eight minutes on a government website confirms every word of that.

Everybody in this business says trust me. I'm the only one handing you the file number.

The free part

It all starts with one honest conversation.

Fifteen minutes. I look at what you owe, what the house is worth, and how many days you actually have left. You ask me anything, including how I get paid. Nothing is signed. Nothing is owed.

Stop My Foreclosure — Get An Honest Cash Offer
Takes 30 seconds. The next page is my calendar.
Sale date inside 14 days? Call me now: (720) 821-0667

Is this even for you?

I don't want to waste your time, and you don't have any to waste.

This is for you if —

You're behind on the mortgage and the bank has stopped taking partial payments.
You've got a notice with a sale date on it.
What put you here was a layoff, a divorce, a medical bill, a death, a business that closed — something that happened to you.
There's real equity in the house. That's why the postcards won't stop. Nobody mails people with nothing to take.
There's a cash offer somewhere in your house right now and something about it doesn't sit right.
You'd rather have one honest conversation than one more piece of mail.

This is not for you if —

You want a magic word that hands you a free house. That's not what I do, and the videos selling it will cost you the house you're trying to save.
You want someone to make the decision for you. I'll stop the sale and get you real numbers. The call is yours.
You'd rather take the certain 60% today than give me a few weeks to run a competition. That's a legitimate choice — take the offer, you don't need me.

Every day costs you money. Here's the exchange rate.

This isn't a motivational line. It's arithmetic, and it runs in one direction.

Day 0
The notice

The foreclosure notice is filed with your county. The clock starts whether you look at it or not.

Your real deadline
37 days out

Federal law only forces your servicer to stop and review if the paperwork is in at least 37 days before the sale. Miss it by one day and it's gone.

Sale date
The auction

Whatever your county has on the calendar. After this, nobody can help you.

Time is what a competition needs. With weeks, I can put several buyers in a room and let them push your number up. With days, I can't — and the only offer still standing is the lowball, which is exactly what it was built for.

The postcards aren't waiting for you to say yes. They're waiting for you to run out of time.

Bob had time. He had more time than he thought. What he didn't have was fifteen minutes for a phone call.

Look up your own filing on your county's website. Count the days yourself. I'll wait.

Trusted by thousands. Here's the count.

3,952

Families

27

Years

1998

The year I started

I've been doing this longer than most of the companies mailing you postcards have existed. And I've been on your side of it — that's the part that isn't on anybody else's résumé.

One more truth, because it'll save you weeks — and weeks are money.

Close the video

If a video tells you to file a UCC-1 against your lender, declare yourself a sovereign citizen, or chase a theory where the bank just deeds you the home — close the video.

I know it's seductive. I watched those same videos in my worst week.

The 8th Circuit upheld sanctions for those theories in 2024. They will not save your house.

Here's the part nobody says: the thirty days you spend on that theory are the exact thirty days that turn a $396,250 competition into a $249,000 offer you feel like you have to take.

And the thing nobody else will say out loud

I know the real fear isn't the deputy on a Tuesday morning.

It's the quiet one at 4:47 in the morning. That this is who you are now. That this is the chapter that defines the rest of it. That your kids will grow up telling their kids about the year Dad lost the house.

I'm not going to tell you I understand. I'm going to tell you I was there, in 2008, doing that exact math in the dark.

Nobody called me. Nobody offered. Nobody explained the rules.

That's why the conversation is free, why the paperwork is free, and why there's no obligation attached to any of it. Not as a marketing tactic. Because I remember what it cost me not to have it.

If you're in crisis, call or text 988. That's not a marketing line. Please do it.

Nothing. Ever.

My Triple Guarantee.

1

You Never Pay Me Anything.

Not up front, not at closing, not out of your proceeds. One hundred percent of my fee comes from the buyer. Your check is the offer, whole.

2

Keep Everything, Even If You Fire Me.

Walk away ten minutes into the conversation and the paperwork I built for you is still yours. Free. Hand it to a lawyer and have them check my work — I'd like that.

3

Hear The Answer That Costs Me Money.

If keeping the house is your better move, I'll tell you, point you somewhere that helps free, and make nothing. You've already read one homeowner describe that exact conversation.

What “I don't know” actually costs.

You already read it. Bob's column.

The sale date stays on the calendar. The notice runs in the paper with your address in it. The house goes to auction. Nobody bids past what the bank is owed. And the equity — the number you've been doing math on at 4:47 in the morning — doesn't get stolen by anybody in particular. It just stops existing.

But here's the actual trap, and it's quieter than that.

Somewhere in all that waiting, the lowball starts looking reasonable. Not because the offer improved. Because your options got worse.

At sixty days out, $249,000 is an insult. At six days out, $249,000 is a lifeline. Same number. Same house. Same investor. The only thing that changed is how much time you had left to say no.

That's what the clock does. It doesn't take your house. It takes your right to refuse.

That's not what happens to lazy people or bad people. It's the default — what happens to anyone who doesn't push back, because the whole machine is built to grind down the ones who stay frozen.

A family together around a table
HonestForeclosure.com

You can be Bob, or you can be Jack.

Same street. Same builder. Same offer on the counter. The only variable left is the one you control.

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No cost. No obligation. No pressure. If the number isn't right, you walk and keep the paperwork.
Sale date less than 14 days away? Skip the form — call me now: (720) 821-0667

If you decide to do nothing, that's your right and I respect it. But go count your days first. Don't let the deadline pass because nobody told you it was there.

That's how I lost a house in 2008. I built this whole thing so it wouldn't be how you lose yours.

Jack is sitting in a paid-for kitchen tonight. Bob is in a rental that took three applications. Eleven houses apart, same everything — one phone call that cost nothing.

Make the call Jack made.

Sincerely,

Chris Curry
Licensed Broker · CO #100080117 · FL #0668981
HonestForeclosure.com · (720) 821-0667
P.S.Sale date less than 14 days away? Don't fill out the form — call me at (720) 821-0667. I hold slots for exactly this. The paperwork can still work inside 14 days, but it has to move today, not after the weekend.
P.P.S.Run the math one more time before you close this page. The offer on your counter is somewhere around 60% of what your house is worth. On a $415,000 house that's $147,250 between one offer and several. You pay nothing to find out which one you're holding.
P.P.P.S.If part of you is reading this thinking this has to be a scamgood. That instinct is what's kept you out of trouble this far, so use it on me. CO License #100080117. FL License #0668981. 2104 SW 14th Street, Gainesville FL — Alachua County Clerk, Book 4214, Page 1882. Public record. Pull all of it up. Then decide whether to call.

“If I could leave more than 5 stars, I would. Chris is awesome. Not only does he donate his time to help homeowners gain knowledge and understand their options, he is congenial, charismatic and honest. Chris is not out to make money off of people. He's not a fraud either. He shoots straight, lays it out and presents options. I found Chris randomly online and I'm very glad I did.”