Someone broke into our empty house!

[SJM]

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[BKOnce]

Not suprisingly... yeah, all over da place now... vacant pools become mosquito swamps, tall grasses become snake feeding ground, and dirty trashes become possum/rat living hell, empty homes become homeless's heavenly abodes, etc...

[AngelinaCatHub]

Be pleased you were not there or harmed. An empty house is a great place to “party”. If the electricity is still on, I would pull shades (if you have them), keep a radio playing and have timed lights that flip on at dusk and off at midnight, but keep one bulb going somewhere. In Florida we have laws that allow shooting when your house, property, or body is threatened. I am the type of person who would stay over a weekend with a sleeping bag to wait on the scum. ‘Hub

[Flamingo]

Well you can bet the word has been spread that your place is vacant and the next to go will be anything that can be stripped that may be of salvage yard value (copper piping, aluminum items, etc.). You probably need to make the place look lived in if possible. Since the property is still in your name I hope you have insurance in case someone wondering around the property gets injured.

[SJM]

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[Flowers]

yeah, Donald Trump just said on CNN, that the first thing the bank does is hire security, then those are the guys who rob the house!

Again, really his main point is the bank does not want your house. Try to re-negotiate.

[spell]

Sorry to hear about this. The good news is your homeowners insurance should cover any damages. And I'm pretty confident it was the rat fink teens who were the ones who broke the TV.
Whether you make the claim or not, write a police report. Make sure part of it is "interviewing" the mom next door. But many departments will put your home on a list of places to drive by.

But as Jkatz stated referring to, foreclosure is usually your last options and you seemed to have skipped through everything else.

Even if you were surrendering the home as a part of a bankruptcy, you can stay there through the entire foreclosure process.
The fact that you might owe more on a home than it's worth isn't quite the dead end that it feels like.
If you're flat out done with the property, offer to the bank to accept a deed in lieu, it saves them the time/cost of the foreclosure process but at the same time keeps foreclosure off of your record.