DC foreclosure bonds.
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When the Superior Court of the District of Columbia enters a Decree of Sale in a mortgage foreclosure action, the substitute trustees may not proceed to auction until a bond is posted into the Court. The revised decree the Civil Division has issued since July 1, 2019 sets that opening figure at $25,000, and raises it to the full purchase price before ratification if a third party is the successful bidder. The premium is 0.4% of the bond amount, $100 minimum; the application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly.
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Nothing about this bond needs a broker phone tree. Enter the case caption and the amount the decree names, and file it with the Court. Here is the whole thing:
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Plaintiff and defendant, the judge, the court, a short description of the property being sold, the bond amount from the decree, and the effective date. That is the entire application.
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The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly. Your executed bond and power of attorney are generated as soon as you pay.
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File the executed bond in the case so the trustees can advertise and hold the auction. Wet-ink originals mailed on request when the Civil Actions Branch wants paper.
What it is and who needs it.
What the foreclosure bond actually guarantees
Most District foreclosures run out of court under a power of sale in the deed of trust. This bond belongs to the other track — the judicial one, where a lender files a mortgage foreclosure action in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Civil Division, and the Court enters an Order and Decree of Sale that ratifies or appoints substitute trustees and authorizes them to sell the property at public auction.
The decree conditions that authority on a bond. In the revised decree language the Civil Division has used since July 1, 2019, the trustees may proceed to foreclose "on the posting of a bond in the amount of $25,000.00 into the Court." The bond stands behind the trustees’ handling of the sale — the notice and advertising the decree requires, the deposit taken at auction, the verified report of sale filed under Super. Ct. Civ. R. 308(b)(4), and the accounting and distribution of proceeds under Rule 308(d). Owners of record, borrowers, junior lienholders, and the purchaser are the people it protects.
The amount is not static. The same decree provides that if a third party is successful at auction, the bond must be increased to the full amount of the purchase price, posted before the Court will ratify the sale — so a trustee who opens at $25,000 often comes back for a second, much larger bond once the gavel falls. It is not insurance for the trustee: if the surety pays, the trustee repays the surety. Enter the figure your decree names; we write both the opening bond and the increase.
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These are the actual issuing fields — the case caption, the judge and court, the property, and the amount from the decree. There is no credit section, because this application collects no credit information.
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From $100, no credit section, and the bond issues as soon as you pay. Enter the amount your decree names and file it into the case. Free until issued.