Even though many individuals are familiar with bankruptcy in general, few are aware of the differences between a Chapter 7 and a Chapter 13. First, a Chapter 7 bankruptcy is considered a liquidation of assets. A Chapter 13 is a reorganization of debts for an individual with regular income. In Chapter 7, most unsecured...
Senate Majority Leader Corbett came through for many homeowners in a tight pinch. Those that were worried about completing a short sale while still having a second mortgage that could come after them years later, commonly to what everyone refers to as seeking a deficiency, was not a settling thought for many sellers who...
As of July 13th 2011 Bank of America received a new guidelines (or in the business it is called a directive) from our old pal Fannie Mae(FNMA). In this new guideline change they are requiring homeowners that look to go through the HAFA program to actually jump through several new hoops. One of those...
In setting a new president starting today Aurora will not longer allow its loss mitigation (loan modification and short sale representatives) to message their processing department representatives. Due to the high volume they are being instructed to only transfer you to their voice mail and/or document the account that you called. They too along...
Wells Fargo has a long standing reputation to upkeep of being the fuddy duddy of the Loss Mitigation industry. I am sure that if they could convince people to submit their short sale and loan modification packages via the old horse drawn cart they would. Well in an unprecedented leap into the 20th century,...
Bank of America in an effort to close more deals has designated a company, Default Servicing LLC., since September to begin contacting homeowners that were pre-qualified for the short sale process. Their new program, shrouded in part due to secrecy of how to qualify, has been initiated and Default Servicing, LLC has begun making...
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...
While processing short sales through the Equator system, once known as REOTrans around this time last year, we received a new message notice advising that they were completing the valuation part of the process. This is a relatively new in the sense that it has only been in the past month couple of months that...