Obama Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan

Posted on: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
New Short Sale Program
New Short Sale Program

As of April 5th, the Obama Administration is adding a new Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives, HAFA, to its efforts to allow borrowers to avoid foreclosure through short sales or a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure option.

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Posted on: Monday, February 22, 2010
Permanent Loan Mods Soar
Permanent Loan Mods Soar

An additional 76,000 borrowers have been offered permanent loan mods where the paperwork still has to be signed and returned. The program passed a milestone, with more than one million trial three month loan mods granted, up from 902,620 the month before.

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Posted on: Monday, February 1, 2010
Foreclosure Prevention Changes, Market Prospects
Foreclosure Prevention Changes, Market Prospects

The National Governors Association reports that 33 states and Puerto Rico passed at least 99 new real estate laws in 2009. Sixty seven of the statutes were aimed at foreclosure relief

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Posted on: Monday, January 18, 2010
Loan Modifications Up
Loan Modifications Up

The Obama Administration’s Home Affordable Program, HAMP, had been heavily criticized for not doing enough to forestall foreclosures, which hit 2.8 million homeowners in 2009.

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Posted on: Friday, December 11, 2009
HAMP Ramps Up Slowly
HAMP Ramps Up Slowly

Treasury Homeownership Preservation Office Chief Phyllis Caldwell stated, “Our focus now is on working with servicers, borrowers and organizations to get as many of those eligible homeowners as possible into permanent modifications.”

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Posted on: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Washington Pushes for Permanent Loan Modications
Washington Pushes for Permanent Loan Modications

“The banks are not doing a good enough job,” according to Michael S. Barr, the US Treasury’s Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions.

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Posted on: Monday, October 12, 2009
Foreclosure Increase Looms
Foreclosure Increase Looms

Rising unemployment, generally flat or even falling home prices, and impending mortgage rate resets threaten to cast millions more out of their homes with devastating effects on families

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Posted on: Friday, August 28, 2009
Manage Your Other Debt Prior to a Loan Modification
Manage Your Other Debt Prior to a Loan Modification

Once you’re on a debt settlement plan, stick with it. Now that a new monthly payment is in place for the rest of your consumer debt, you can approach your mortgage lender with a fixed number that will encourage your loan servicer to work with you on reaching the Obama Plan’s 31% HTI.

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Posted on: Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Why is Making Home Affordable Falling Short?
Why is Making Home Affordable Falling Short?

Why is Making Home Affordable Falling Short? By most estimates, it has been applied to 5% of those eligible while a record 5.4 million American homeowners are now behind on their mortgage payments.

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Posted on: Friday, July 17, 2009
Short Fi a Jumbo into a Conforming Mortgage
Short Fi a Jumbo into a Conforming Mortgage

Short fi’s are for borrowers facing hardship. It would work best in an area where house prices have declined precipitously.

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