How to Postpone the Sheriff’s Sale: Minnesota Statutory Postponement of Foreclosure Sale
In Minnesota, homeowners can apply for a postponement of the sheriff’s sale scheduled in a foreclosure process. So long as the foreclosure process is the standard “foreclosure by advertisement” (i.e., the most common Minnesota foreclosure process for residential homestead property), the sheriff’s sale is at least several weeks away, and the documents are properly completed and recorded in the correct offices, a sheriff’s sale will be automatically postponed by five months. Th