The Government’s alphabet soup of mortgage help programs has really set a lot of confusion amongst homeowner’s, agents, and professionals alike with all the programs that they have brought to pass. HAFA, as relatively one of the newer programs, has been met with a large bit of confusion as to the terms to be...
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Chase Home Mortgage: Openers, and Negotiators, and Closers, oh MY!
Chase, like many companies in its pursuit for improving how it does business, attempted to make some changes to Loss Mitigation Workout line up. Traditionally speaking the process goes from having a simple document collector and negotiator structure to trying to break down the whole system to a Multiple Stage Process (opener, negotiator, closer,...
Chase Recovery Department: Out for Blood? Well anything they can get at least.
Chase is seemingly not hurting these days as the recovery department is on a set course to collect a minimum of 70% for a full release of the deficiency balance to be released. Now to anyone paying 70K on a 100K debt is a savings of 30K (which by the way the IRS does...
MHA/HAMP/HAFA: Harsh rules leaving many homeowners in trouble.
Many times these programs that we deal with for our clients change for the better but there are also certain times that they change for the worse. I guess only adding insult to injury is that fact that it is our own government, supported by our tax dollars, making life just a little bit...
Bank of America: Understanding BAC Loan Servicing LP’s acceptance of Counter Offer Terms
Realtors have told us the better they understand the counter offer process, the more successful they are in closing short sales. The following facts related to the counter offer process are critical to closing short sales in Equator. Fact #1: Your acceptance of the counter offer terms does not mean the transaction is approved...
NEWS: Tax Incentives Extended: Thousands of Short Sales saved from Buyers dropping their offers!
Anyone riding the short sale pipeline may have seen many buyers getting antsy as we came to the end of the filing period for tax payers to cash in on those home buying incentives. Well many of those last-minute buyers can wipe the sweat off their brow along with saving a lot of short...
CalHFA: We don’t need no stinkin’ government programs, Rs r gud!
Needless to say CalHFA’s review of loan modification is weak and at best they don’t even look to see if you have your basic requirements for living are met. Many times you will find that they will go through multiple level’s of management prior to actually making approvals on loan modifications, same goes as well for...
CalHFA: Don’t wait till the last minute because they’ll take you to foreclosure sale!
Many times we find the homeowners wait till the last minute to find assistance. As homeowners used to have a little more leniency during the slow times but now an already battered system is starting to fight back. At this time CalHFA is another lender in a long line of mortgage servicers tightening up their guidelines. They have...
How to write a hardship letter for a loan modification or a short sale?
Often we receive the question of how a homeowner should write their hardship letter and we find that there is still no simple answer. Should I include if I didn’t file my taxes? What if I don’t know what a profit and loss is? Many times the answer is right there but simply needs...