If like thousands of other homeowners in America, you’re at risk for losing your home, you need to educate yourself about what options there are to help you avoid foreclosure. To learn about ways to keep your home, read on…
Speak with a Housing Counselor from HUD
Certified, HUD-approved counseling agencies are located throughout the country, and they’re there to provide free foreclosure avoidance information to homeowners. They can explain the new housing aid programs that have been implemented since President Obama has taken office, let you know if you qualify for any of them, and explain your options for avoiding foreclosure—everything from short sales to refinancing your home loan.
Housing counselors can also advise you on how best to approach your lender. Getting through to the department you need at a financial institution can be intimidating and time consuming, so it’s great to have someone help you cut through the bureaucratic red tape and get a loss mitigation officer on the line.
There are numerous companies out there that offer foreclosure prevention counseling, but they typically require upfront fees. Many of them are actually nothing more than scams designed to prey on people when they’re already down. Stick with agencies that are approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, as their services are free and their information is trustworthy.
Talk to Your Lender
As soon as you start to feel the financial pinch, contact your lender. They are the ones that have the power to help you save your home, so you need to communicate with them as soon as possible. Don’t wait until you’re two months behind on your mortgage—try to work out a solution with them now.
The department you want to speak with is Loss Mitigation. It’s their job to retrieve as much of the bank’s money as possible, so they’re often willing to work with struggling homeowners because it’s in their financial best interest to do so. Remember that banks don’t want to get into the real estate business. They don’t want your home; they want their money, so they’ll work with you to get it.
Loan Modification & Refinancing
If you’ve lost your job or have experienced some other loss that will affect your financial health long term, your lender may be willing to refinance your home loan or modify your mortgage. Both options can help you keep your home.
Loan refinancing is an option for homeowners who are still current on their mortgage payments, but know that soon they’ll be underwater financially. Refinancing involves replacing your existing loan with a new one that offers better interest rates and lower monthly payments. The length of the loan term may be extended as well, which means that you’ll end up paying more interest in the long run, but for now, your payments will be much more manageable.
Loan modification on the other hand, is for people who are facing financial hardship, who have missed one or more mortgage payments, and whose property value has diminished.
Modification means that the terms of your current loan are changed in order to reduce the current interest rate and lower your payments. If you’ve missed one or more mortgage payments, you may be able to add these onto the balance of your loan, which can mean a very timely reprieve for you.
To qualify for loan modification, you must prove to the lender that you have no other financial resources, and that modification is your only option. Keep every bill receipt and letter from your lender (including the post-marked envelopes), and gather all your income and expenditure information for the last three to six months.
You’ll also need to explain (and prove) what happened in your life to bring about this financial hardship. Were you laid off? Was there a death in the immediate family? Tell the lender in heartbreaking detail about what’s happened and why you need their help. While they’re not going to forgive your loan out of compassion, they are likely to help you avoid foreclosure because foreclosure is a lose-lose situation for both of you.
VA veteran’s affair is a department of the US government. It is operated by the US government to manage the military veteran benefits along with the cabinet level positions. It is mainly responsible for handling the veteran systems, benefits, families, and the survivors.
The benefits are added with the education, home loans, disability compensation, life insurance, vocational rehabilitation, pension, survivors’ benefits, medical benefits, and burial benefits. The army people frequently have gone for the PCS moves which are called as permanent change in station. In this situation the VA short sales will occur. It is referred to as ‘offers in compromise’, compromise claims or compromise sales’.
VA, that is veteran’s affairs, will approve the VA short sales if the cost to the VA is calculated is less than the foreclosure. If the home owner gets an offer according to the existing market value and which change out to lesser than the total value of the loan payments , then the home owner will ask the veteran affairs department acceptance for VA short sale. This VA will check the exact situation with the mortgage company. If the evidence proved, that the home owner is eligible for VA short sale, then the VA department will pay the amount which is different between sale and mortgage balance. The mortgage company will accept the sale on behalf of the VA by Service Loss Mitigation Program. It is approved by the VA department to perform the activity of VA short sale or the VA compromise sales. There are some facts to be understood on the VA short sales. The property should be sold only at the current market value. The closing cost of this process should be reasonable. There should not be any discrepancies in VA short sale and mainly the home owner should be truly in financial difficulty. You have to fill out the financial report form which is given to you by the lender or the veteran affairs department. You have to write a letter by requesting them to approve or accept this VA short sale. You have to fill a Compromise Agreement Sale Application. The sales contract or process should be approved and it should undertake with all rules and regulations of VA short sale. The lender has to check whether it has been accepted by the VA service loss mitigation department.
After completing all these process, you will get the loan from the VA regional office.
This is a BANK APPROVED SHORT SALES AT THIS PRICE,CAN CLOSE QUICKLY. Your new 16 acre country home located just 10 minutes from Walterboro and a short drive to Summerville. The master bedroom is separated from the 2nd and 3rd bedrooms by the great room. Attached to the master is a bonus space that could easily be used for a dressing area, an office, a den, a 4th bedroom or a nursery. The master bath features a separate shower, garden tub and double vanity. The great room is wired for surround-sound and the speakers stay with the house. A spacious kitchen comes complete with stove; dishwasher and a desk workspace already setup to accommodate your computer. The owner estimates that 6 of the 16 acres are cleared. The 10 acres that are wooded affords you the room for hunting and all types of family activities. You can have horses and other animals .The back yard of the house has a chain-linked fence to keep the children and pets safely hemmed in. There’s a small outside storage building, and a 20′X40′ concrete pad is ready for another building or shed (the water’s already there). The amenities of this property just go on and on! All of this just minutes from the new high school and Walterboro. Assumable FHA loan for a qualified buyer. For more information about this property, please contact Bill Branham at 800-323-4356 or bill.branham@cbunited.com. Company website www.cbunited.com MLS ID 1012129
Hello and welcome from the Gregory Real Estate Group at keller Williams VIP Properties located in beautiful Valencia, California. Today is really hot outside, so I thought I would do a blog in my air conditioned office. Today’s blog will be a Santa Clarita short sale market update for the Canyon Country real estate market. Today we currently have 305 homes for sale on the Canyon Country real estate market. Of those 305 homes for sale, 123 of them are short sale listings. That means that 40% of the active listings on the Canyon Country real estate market are short sales that are trying to get bank approval. There have been a total of 574 homes that have sold and closed escrow in Canyon Country year to date. 150 of those homes have been successful bank approved short sales. So that means that 26% of homes that have sold and closed escrow this year in Canyon Country have been short sales. I hope this iformation was helpful. Like always, feel free to contact me at anytime with all of your real estate questions. I CAN HELP YOU IF YOU ARE BEHIND IN PAYMENTS!!! Matt Gregory 661-713-4799
4 Hemlock Ter, Ocala, FL 34472 Rhonda Buckner Buckner Homes Realty Inc. www.BucknerHomes.com Bank wants an offer. This is a bank approved short sales wanting to close by 12 3 bedroom 2 bath 2 car garage, with laminate hardwood floors in living area, needs carpet in bedroom. Cathedral ceilings, screened porch, above ground pool. Qualifies for 100%financing and $8000 tax credit MLS: 333451 Price: $63500 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Sq Feet: 1156 Lot Size: .23 Year Built: 1995 # of Floors: 1 Garage Size: 2
RealEstateRoadKill.com Fear grips the market and assets are relinquished for pennies on the dollar. At times like these,VULTURES GET FAT For listings of Short Sale transactions that have failed to close after the lender has accepted an offer.
RealEstateRoadKill.com Fear grips the market and assets are relinquished for pennies on the dollar. At times like these,VULTURES GET FAT For listings of Short Sale transactions that have failed to close after the lender has accepted an offer.
RealEstateRoadKill.com Fear grips the market and assets are relinquished for pennies on the dollar. At times like these,VULTURES GET FAT For listings of Short Sale transactions that have failed to close after the lender has accepted an offer.
RealEstateRoadKill.com Fear grips the market and assets are relinquished for pennies on the dollar. At times like these,VULTURES GET FAT For listings of Short Sale transactions that have failed to close after the lender has accepted an offer.
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