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Answer for the clue "Homeowner's nightmare ", 11 letters:
foreclosure

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foreclosure \Fore*clo"sure\ (?; 135), n. The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Foreclosure is a legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of a loan from a borrower, who has stopped making payments to the lender, by forcing the sale of the asset used as the collateral for the loan. Formally, a mortgage lender ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1728, from foreclose + -ure .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) the proceeding, by a creditor, to regain property or other collateral following a default on mortgage payments

Usage examples of foreclosure.

Pittsburgh area could no longer make mortgage payments, and foreclosure sales were scheduled, 60 pickets jammed the courthouse to protest the auction, and Allegheny sheriff Eugene Coon halted the proceedings.

The supple Patrick Henry Hanway thanked the aristocracy for the honor, took the place, and carried out their wishes for patrolling oysterbeds, protecting canvasbacks, and preventing foreclosures.

A right of redemption allowed by State law upon foreclosure of a mortgage was unavailing to defeat a plan for reorganization of a debt or corporation where the trial court found that the claims of junior lienholders had no value.

As lieutenant governor, Donnelly early showed his sympathy with the farmers by championing laws which lowered the legal rate of interest and which made more humane the process of foreclosure on mortgages.

There was a defect in the foreclosure proceedings which made them a permanent underlying security of the reorganized company--under The Northern Pacific R.

He referred to international data banks for stock-market trends, economic indicators, unemployment data, factory closings, interest rates, wage-price movements, financial-institution failures, strikes, lock-outs, bankruptcies, foreclosures, fluctuations in exchange rates, commodity prices, oil and gas shortages, imbalances of trade, assassinations, political instabilities, coups, terrorist attacks, and third-world nuclear capabilities.

After I dropped out a few scattered foreclosures, gambling losses, and in-family transfers, I had about forty left.

Currently, a handful of agro-conglomerates are working to drive America's remaining small farmers off their land by systematically paying them less for their produce than it costs to grow, thus forcing them to get loans from the conglomerates' banks, assume mortgages, and undergo foreclosures and the sale of land to corporate-controlled agribusiness.

Currently, a handful of agro-conglomerates are working to drive America’s remaining small farmers off their land by systematically paying them less for their produce than it costs to grow, thus forcing them to get loans from the conglomerates’ banks, assume mortgages, and undergo foreclosures and the sale of land to corporate-controlled agribusiness.

The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today.

I did not appear but through this agent I forced the foreclosure, and but few days (no more, believe me, than the law allowed) were given John Claverhouse to remove his goods and chattels from the premises.

Nichols, along with his Sanilac country neighbors, witnessed dozens of farm foreclosures as a result.

In one case, near the Blue Ridge, to the west, the land and trailer had been sold at a tax lien foreclosure to a couple who currently lived there.