When a property is sold at foreclosure auction for more than the debt owed on it, the difference — the surplus — legally belongs to the former owner.
The catch is that most former owners never find out. The money sits in a court registry, unclaimed, sometimes for years. Across the country, tens of millions of dollars in surplus funds are waiting for the rightful owners to file claims.
Santa Fe Recovery is a small team that finds these funds, files the claims, and gets the money into the hands of the people it actually belongs to.