Starting today, thousands of borrowers facing foreclosure will be able to stay in their homes and avoid the trauma of being evicted. Fannie Mae’s new “Deed for Lease” program allows impossibly situated borrowers to transfer their home ownership to Fannie Mae and sign a one-year lease, with month-to-month extensions after that. Yes, you still lose your home–but you avoid explaining to your kids why they have to squeeze into a crummy apartment and change schools, you don’t have to schlepp from landlord to landlord and blush whenever they check your credit, and you don’t have to add the joy of moving to your holiday celebrations. Not a small thing. Continue reading ‘Facing Foreclosure? Stay Home with Fannie’s Deed for Lease Program’
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You’re in trouble with your home loan. Your income has dropped. Your expenses have not. You’ve been dipping into your savings to make your payments, and they’re almost gone. Your retirement account is all you have left. Can you get a mortgage modification? You check www.makinghomeaffordable.com and take the quiz on the site to see if you’d qualify for a mortgage modification. You do! Except that you don’t. What the site doesn’t tell you is that just because you are experiencing hardship doesn’t mean that your loan servicer is going to modify your loan–the program is voluntary and lenders all have their own criteria for determining who gets a modification–and who doesn’t. Continue reading ‘The Truth About Mortgage Modification: What www.MakingHomeAffordable.com Doesn’t Tell You’
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Over half of homeowners who get a mortgage modification or forbearance don’t get the happy ending they expected. They simply get behind on their payments again according to a new report by bank regulators. More than 50% of mortgage borrowers with loans modified in the first half of last year had missed at least two months of payments a year later, government officials claimed. Continue reading ‘Mortgage Modification May Not End Mortgage Credit Problems’
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You need a mortgage modification. You checked the questionnaire on www.makinghomeaffordable.com and discovered that you meet the criteria for a modification under the Home Affordable Modification Plan (HAMP). So you call your lender, get your modification packet, and return it. And then nothing happens. For months. Continue reading ‘Frustrated with Your Lender? So Are Some Judges’
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Anyone considering refinancing their mortgage under the Making Home Affordable plan had to be scared to death after looking at Fannie Mae’s new risk-based pricing adjustments. The Loan Level pricing Adjustment matriax, aka the Chart of Death, added prohibitive surcharges to refinances for nearly anyone without perfect property and perfect credit. But as of July 1, 2009, refinancing through the making Home Affordable program will be a lot less scary and a lot less expensive. Continue reading ‘HARP Refinancing: A Change for the Better’
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I created a previous post called “Second Mortgage Holder Jerking You Around?” that addressed the difficulties homeowners were having getting mortgages modified or short sales approved, despite the intentions of their first mortgage holders.That’s because no matter what was done to save the homeowner (and 50% of problem mortgages have second liens attached on there too) from foreclosure, the second lien holders were going to be screwed and so there was no reason for them to cooperate. And there was always some small chance that they might recover something if they dug in their heels. That’s changed. Continue reading ‘New Help for Those in Trouble with Second Mortgages’
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