Can I stop a sheriff sale in Bossier Parish?
Sometimes, if you act before the sheriff sells the house. Nothing on this page stops a sale by itself. A servicer, a lawyer, a court, or a closing does. We are a home buyer in Keithville. We are not a law firm, a lender, or a housing counselor, and we do not negotiate with your lender.
Start with the date on your notice of seizure. Bossier Parish sheriff's sales are online, not on the courthouse steps. They are on Wednesdays, on Bid4Assets. Bid4Assets shows the bidding hours for that date. Do not use a Caddo Parish courthouse time for a Bossier house. The steps, including how the sheriff's list marks a stopped sale, are on our Bossier Parish sheriff's sale page.
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What to do first
Work backward from the sale date. Do these in order, and keep copies.
- Read the notice. Write down the first sale date, the case number, and whether it says with appraisement or without appraisement.
- Confirm the date has not moved. Sales are reset and stopped. The sheriff's real estate list shows "Sale Stopped" and "Appraised." Check it, and use our address check. Weekly counts show how many sales are on the public lists. They do not name owners or streets.
- Call your servicer and ask, in writing, what it would take to catch up. A phone call you cannot prove later is a weak record.
- Call a free HUD-approved counselor and a lawyer the same week. Use the HUD counselor search. The sheriff's civil office can confirm a sale date. Our Bossier page has that desk.
- If selling is one of the options, call early. A closing needs time for title work and a payoff.
The timeline before a Bossier sale
The sale is the last step, not the first. Before it, the lender goes to court, a judge signs an order, and a deputy serves a notice of seizure. Louisiana law says the first sale date is at least 60 days after the judge signs. Our guide on how long foreclosure takes and the guide on a notice of seizure walk through that order.
The sheriff advertises the sale. In Bossier, those notices run in the Bossier Press-Tribune. The auction itself is online. The morning of the sale is a bad time to start.
Options that can stop the sale
These are the usual paths. Which one fits is a question for your servicer, a counselor, or a lawyer. We do not pick it for you. If the house might be in Caddo, read how to stop or avoid a Caddo sale. If you want both parishes in one place, read options before a sheriff's sale in Caddo or Bossier.
Our situation pages, in the order we use on this site, are foreclosure, a house in bankruptcy, a short sale, an inherited house, and behind on payments.
- Reinstatement. You pay what the servicer says it takes to put the loan back in good standing. Get that number in writing. Do not guess it from a figure on the sheriff's list.
- A loan modification or a repayment plan. The servicer may agree to change the loan or spread the missed payments out. That agreement has to be real, and in writing, before you count on it to stop a sale.
- Bankruptcy. A bankruptcy filing generally pauses a sheriff's sale. That pause has limits, and it is a legal decision. Talk to a Louisiana bankruptcy lawyer before you file. We are not that lawyer, and we do not tell you to file. If a sale of the house is later allowed, see selling a house in bankruptcy.
- A short sale, if you owe more than the house is worth. The lender has to agree in writing. That is not something we negotiate. Read owing more than the house is worth.
- Sell the house before the auction. A closing before the sale date pays the loan off through a title company. You can sell to a person you find, or to us. Either way, the payoff has to be ready before the auction.
- A cash sale to us. We buy houses as they sit. Sometimes we pay cash, and sometimes we take over the payments. Cash is not promised on every house. You pick the closing date, as long as it is before the sheriff's date and the title company can be ready.
We buy houses. We are not a foreclosure-relief service. We charge homeowners no fee. We do not promise to stop a foreclosure, and we do not negotiate with your lender.
What does not stop the sale
Ignoring the mail does not stop it. A verbal promise you cannot show on paper does not stop it. Moving out does not stop it. Waiting until the sale morning to call does not stop it. An application for a loan change, by itself, does not stop it.
After the sheriff sells the house, Louisiana generally gives the former owner no right to buy it back. That is the point of our guide on what happens after a sheriff's sale. A tax sale is a different system, with its own payoff period. This page is about a mortgage foreclosure sale.
If the house is in Bossier but you live somewhere else
Bossier City, Benton, Haughton, Plain Dealing, Princeton and Elm Grove all go through the same online Bossier sale. The town does not change the Wednesday. The date on the notice does.
The statewide order of the notice, the ads, and the sale is on the Louisiana sheriff's sale timeline. A house in Marshall, Longview, or Tyler is not a Bossier sale. That timeline is before a trustee sale in East Texas. What a sale before the auction can and cannot change, including equity and a possible deficiency, is on auction versus a sale before that date. It is not legal advice. En español: antes de una subasta del sheriff.
Updated November 13, 2026