Step 6: After the ORDER TO DOCKET is filed, the foreclosing attorney is required to personally serve the homeowner with a copy of the ORDER to DOCKET.
However, if the foreclosing attorney has made two good faith attempts to serve you with this paperwork and they have failed to do so, they may use an alternative process in which to serve you.
The alternatives are:
File an affidavit with the Court describing the attempts that it made to serve you, and provide you with a copy of this information, using both 1st class mail and a certified letter, aas well as POST the ORDER TO DOCKET letter on your property.
A helpful hint-If you prefer to receive notices from your lender at a different address that is not the property address, you must look at the Notice or change of address provision in your Deed of Trust. Follow the directions for address change or call your lender and ask that they change the mailing address. Write to them at the proper address with your request. Send the written correspondence or request by certified mail so that you will have proof of the address change results. A number or foreclosures have happened to borrowers who never received notice of the sale because of the simple fact that they never changed their mailing address in the proper way. A call to the lender is not enough, you should have written proof, so pay the extra few dollars that it takes to send it certified. Furthermore, couple that with sending the request via fax (save the confirmation sheet) and call to make a verbal request (write down the date in which you made the request and to whom you spoke).
Step 6: Service Of Process