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• Homeowners Not Happy With Government Housing Fix

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 440
  Trillions spent on propping up banks, buying mortgages, tax credits and new programs designed to lower payments and prevent foreclosures. And yet a new survey from Move Inc., the parent of Realtor.com, says Americans are growing increasingly dissatisfied with how Washington is handling the housing mess.The October ...
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• Obama Administration Won’t Release Mortgage Modification Figures; Sense on Cents Already Did

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 560
  No news is good news, right? Well, that may work in raising teenagers but when it comes to public policy in general and housing policy specifically the American public deserves to know what is going on. Why? American taxpayers are picking up the tab, that’s why. Regrettably, our wizards in Washington are often ...
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• Video: US Treasury Loan Modification Program Debated on CNBC

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 440
  The Treasury Dept. is out with its loan modification status report. Officials claim the rescue program is on track, but is there something they’re holding back? Susan Wachter, of Wharton; Howard Glaser, a mortgage industry consultant; and CNBC’s Diana Olick discuss.
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• Government foreclosure plan is working, but how good is the question

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 440
  The number of homeowners getting help from the government’s massive foreclosure program is growing, according to data released Tuesday, but it is unclear how many of these borrowers might still lose their homes.Under the effort, called Making Home Affordable, lenders are paid to lower a borrower’s mortgage ...
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• 4 New York Homeowners Sue Aurora Loan Services

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 440
  NEW YORK — Four New York City homeowners have filed a lawsuit charging they were denied access to a federal home-refinancing program.The plaintiffs are homeowners in Brooklyn and Queens who have mortgages serviced by Aurora Loan Services.They are charging that Aurora denied them access to the Obama ...
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• Fannie Mae Deed for Lease Program Allows Homeowners to Rent Back

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 440
  WASHINGTON, DC — Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE) is implementing the Deed for Lease™ Program under which qualifying homeowners facing foreclosure will be able to remain in their homes by signing a lease in connection with the voluntary transfer of the property deed back to the lender.“The Deed for Lease Program provides ...
  6 days ago

• Fannie Turning Borrowers Into Renters

  
  HSH Associates Financial News Blog — Authority: 132
  Fannie Mae is expected to release the details of a program today that will turn struggling homeowners into renters. The “Deed for Lease Program” (DLP) allows delinquent homeowners to rent their home for up to a year instead of being foreclosed upon. Wisely, Fannie hasn’t yet said how many borrowers are expected ...
  1 week ago

• Panel: Government Foreclosure Plan Failing to Help Homeowners

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 440
  PHOENIX — Months after President Barack Obama came to Phoenix to announce his plans to fix the foreclosure crisis, some experts and homeowners say a key component of the program is not working.“From the consumer’s point, it’s a failure,” said Kevin Hardin, Thomson Conant Mortgage Mediation Group ...
  1 week ago

• Homeowners: “Hey Congress, Get Off Your A**” – PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 440
  If you are a homeowner and want to unite with other homeowners fighting to save their homes, please sign the petition below in order to help us help you.Divided we fall and united we stand!By Richard Zombeck, the members of LoanSafe.org & Huffington Post:So, while the banks, servicers, and lenders are waiting ...
  1 week ago

• There’s A Reason Refis Aren’t Getting Any Attention

  
  HSH Associates Financial News Blog — Authority: 132
  You don’t hear much about the Federal refinancing effort these days. In what started out as the focal point of the Treasury’s two-pronged attack on the housing crisis, soon became dwarfed by the rescue’s other facet: modification. So why haven’t we heard much about the Making Home Affordable refinancing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Freddie Mac, Given Oversight of Mortgage Mod Program, Falls Down on Job

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 500
  Alex Wong/Getty Images This story was reported by ProPublica’s Paul Kiel Since its March launch, the government’s $50 billion program to prevent foreclosures has been marked by confusion, delays and doubts . A little-noticed conclusion in a government report released on Wednesday reveals that the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama’s Plan is a Particular Disappointment, Consumer Advocates Say

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 440
  The relative failure of Obama’s plan is a particular disappointment, consumer advocates say. After spending hundreds of billions of dollars in bank bailouts, the administration proposed a plan that would pay mortgage servicers for successfully modifying eligible delinquent home loans. Investors that owned ...
  2 weeks ago

• Making Home Affordable Tips…

  
  Blogging Away Debt — Authority: 491
  I learned a lot about the Making Home Affordable/Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) in my 2 hour call with Bank of America. 1 – If you are hoping for a huge change… this is not the answer. Not all changes are permanent and/or large. Some adjustments may last as little as 3 months. 2 – Loan ...
  2 weeks ago

• Second Look Program Enacted by Freddie Mac and the Treasury

  
  Florida Real Estate — Authority: 131
  Many struggling homeowners have been turned down when applying for the Obama Administrations Making Home Affordable Program due to typos, bank employee errors and lost faxes. This problem has been acknowledged by the Treasury Department and mortgage giant, Freddie Mac has begun the Second Look Program. Second Look ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama Administration looks to keep jobless in thier homes

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 440
  The oversight panel argues in a recent report that the Treasury’s current mortgage modification program focuses on the problem evident early in the financial crisis – subprime mortgages that people can’t afford. Panel member Richard Neiman said the second wave of foreclosures is coming more from a loss of income ...
  3 weeks ago

• Are Loan Mods Destroying the Mortgage Industry?

  
  HSH Associates Financial News Blog — Authority: 132
  In the days ahead, will the private Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) market cease to exist? Will loan modifications wind up destroying the long-standing playing field between lenders and second lien holders? Will the Fed ever be able to exit the mortgage market? These questions have all come to mind because of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dealing with Making Home Affordable…

  
  Blogging Away Debt — Authority: 491
  I am throwing the white flag… and applying for the Making Home Affordable program. Yesterday, I left work early and made THE call. My call started at 5:07 p.m. and ended at 5:57 p.m. I called the Making Home Affordable number on my Bank of America mortgage website and waited 17 minutes on hold. Someone ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bank Foreclosures Sale reports Foreclosure Inventory Remains at All-time High

  
  eNewsChannels — Authority: 438
  MIAMI, Fla. — Bank Foreclosures Sale reports that “Making Home Affordable,” a $75 billion federal government-backed initiative to keep up to seven to nine million Americans in their homes by preventing avoidable foreclosures, may have an uphill battle. The Associated Press recently revealed news from the Office ...
  4 weeks ago

• Foreclosure Mitigation Deemed A Flop: Congressional Panel Tells It Like It Is; Administration Plan Fizzles; Foreclosures Rise; More Expected; Don’t Expect Much More Government Help; Forget About The Banks Bailing YOU Out; Don’t Bother Rationalization; Tre

  
  Real Estate Investing For Real | A BiggerPockets Investment Property Blog — Authority: 505
  Let’s stop beating around the bush….or, in this case, the Obama. The dismal results are in and there is NO question that the efforts, such as they are, of the Obama administration to effectively deal with the nation’s growing foreclosure problem amount to a failure. Says who? Well, me, for one. But don’t ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Treasury rule on loan modifications riles the securities market

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 440
  The $1.7 trillion mortgage securitization market is still a mess, despite (or in part because of) the Federal Reserve’s $700 billion splurge into the market. But another reason may be Treasury’s decision to undermine private mortgage-backed securities (MBS) contracts.BlackRock Inc. Chairman Laurence Fink went so ...
  4 weeks ago

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