Foreclosures and Debt

In spite of all the good intentions that the Banks and the Obama Administration had in mind when they initiated the Making Home Affordable loan modification program to stop foreclosure for home borrowers that were facing foreclosures, there were many borrowers unable to qualify for the program. Due to the inability of the “Making Home Affordable” program to help stop foreclosure for a large number of ineligible, willing applicants, foreclosures continued to spiral out of control. Many families despite their efforts to keep their homes, were unqualified for  foreclosure avoidance programs offered and had to give up their American Dream of home ownership that they worked so hard for.

Not so fast! Fannie Mae have come up with another option for slowing foreclosures, “Deed for Lease™ Program”. The Deed for Lease program announced by Fannie Mae in November, is a program designed to offer up another option for borrowers facing foreclosure who do not qualify for other stop foreclosure programs like loan modifications. The way it works is that qualifying homeowners facing foreclosure may be able to stay in their homes if they sign a lease and at the same time, voluntarily transfer the deed of the property back to the lender, also called “deed in lieu of foreclosure”. The primary aim of the Deed for Lease program is to help alleviate the problems associated with foreclosure, such as uprooting families, decaying neighborhoods and other harddships caused by foreclosures. According to the Vice President of Fannie Mae, Jay Ryan, Deed for Lease is another option for troubled borrowers facing foreclosures; [Read more →]

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Exploding foreclosure rates have continued in 2009 in the U.S., especially in California, Nevada, Florida and Arizona. Under the Bush Administration there were programs initiated to help homeowners facing foreclosures starting in 2007, such as FHA Secure, Project Hope and others that did not appear to produce much fruit. Foreclosures continue to spiral out-of-control up until this day.

Now, President Obama and his Administration has rolled out what is sure to be a few of many programs to address the run away foreclosure rates and help about 9 million homeowners save and keep their homes. One such program launched this month is the “Making Home Affordable” Program. The “Making Home Affordable” program, is a two-prong approach for the foreclosure crisis that involves loan modification and refinancing programs for struggling homeowners. The loan modification approach is designed to bring lenders and borrowers together to modify the terms of their loan by lowering interest rates to as low as 2 percent for five years. After the five years, rates will rise to about five percent until the loan is repaid. For eligible borrowers, they will have to provide their most recent tax return and two pay stubs, as well as an “affidavit of financial hardship” to qualify for the loan modification program, which runs through 2012. Making Home Affordable modification program guidelines are as follows;

The home must be an owner occupied, single family 1-4 unit property (including condominium, cooperative, and manufactured home affixed to a foundation and treated as real property under state law). [Read more →]

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Dateline’s Chris Hansen checks up on a family that was evicted from their Las Vegas Home a year ago. Look at the video and see how they are doing after the foreclosure process.

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Best selling author of personal financial management advice, Suze Orman has teamed up with Media Queen, Oprah Winfrey to bring you a free ebook download called “Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan”!

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“Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan” book offers straight talking advice about various financial scenarios that may be the answer to some of your more pressing questions about your money in this financial hurricane of foreclosures, bankruptcy, loan defaults, and debt overload! Oprah Winfrey is giving away Suze’s book as a electronic download or ebook , on the Oprah.com website.

Once you click on the link above you will see two download links to Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan in English and one in Spanish. To download the ebook, right click on your preferred language and save to file to computer. I tried to simply click on the link, but the ebook did not open in my Firefox browser.

Once you have saved the file to your computer, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open and read the ebook, get Adobe Acrobat Reader here if you do not have it already installed on your computer. When you open the ebook, you may want to reduce the size of the print by using the down button next to the size indicator, my default size is 221%. See image below.

 

Hurry and do not wait to get this free book Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan, according to the Oprah Winfrey website, there will be a cut off of download on Thursday, January 15, 2009! Get the Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan Now, and jumpstart your credit and credit rebuilding for 2009!

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Religious leaders and community activists and others gathered in Washington D.C. to meet with Federal officials, Congress and members of the Barack Obama transition team for a solution, such as more loan modifications and the like, to slow down the ever-growing foreclosure crisis that is affecting millions of homeowners. The religious leaders and prayerful were also there in Washington, D.C. to pray for some relief to homeowners facing foreclosure and eviction. Their prayers may have been answered, somewhat.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two of the largest home loan lenders in the U.S.,  have agreed to stop foreclosure and evictions for about six weeks beginning Nov 26, 2008 through January 9, 2009, just in time for the holidays. The suspension of foreclosures and evictions during this time period is designed to allow time for loan servicers to put in a place an efficient loan modification program to assist struggling homeowners.

According to Fannie Chief Executive Officer Herb Allison,

we felt it was in the best interest of both borrowers and Fannie Mae to take this extra step to ensure that homeowners with the desire and ability to prevent foreclosure have an opportunity to stay in their homes.

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In what may end up being a precedent-setting test case, the Star Tribune is reporting that a northern Minneapolis neighborhood is suing CitiMortgage over a foreclosed property that has remained vacant, alleging that the deteriorating state of the property is bringing down their property values….(read more)

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At the rate of foreclosure filings by home mortgage lenders, many borrowers find themselves stuck in idle and do not know what to do next.

Recently, in March 2007, a couple was facing foreclosure and began worrying their heads off about losing their home. The husband was in between changing jobs and they had fallen behind on their mortgage payments by a month.

Their first action to try and catch up on the home loan, was to contact friends and family to borrow money. Needless to say, many of them were in a cash crunch themselves, so they ran into a brick wall.

The next action was to call the lender and try to negotiate a payment for the current month and ask, if the month missed could be paid later on during the term of the loan so they could prevent foreclosure. The lender’s representative insulted them and told them “if they could not pay the missed payment, then they did not deserve to have a home! ” [Read more →]

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