Foreclosure Nation

As I covered on Fox News, America’s Newsroom yesterday afternoon, here are some of the tips I discussed. DON’T PANIC This is not your father’s foreclosure with all of the old stigma attached. If there’s any comfort in numbers, there are millions. And plenty of people who want to help. FIRST...

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Two things I want to be aure everyone knows. First, under some of the new bailout related plans, the modifications you may enter may only last for five years. After that you're interest rate will adjust back up to whatever the market rate was at the time you made the modification (which is around 5...

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Making Homes Affordable • We’re all sinking. This new strategy acknowledges we’re in different boats and offers solutions to fit specific circumstances • Uses FannieMae and FreddieMac which already own or guarantee $5.2 trillion of $12 trillion total home loans in U.S. more than 30 million of...

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THE PRESIDENT'S AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT PLAN With each passing day, families across America are watching their bills pile up and their savings disappear. President Obama believes that if we do not act quickly, this recession could linger for years – and America could lose the competit...

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House Democrats have agreed to limitations on the pending bankruptcy empowerments to homeowners who sought modification before filing bankruptcy and people who can't afford to pay their mortgage. Judges will be required to consider whether the bank offered a reasonable restructuring before they can ...

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Freddie is launching a new plan to keep tenants and former owners of foreclosed properties in the homes on mon to month leases. The agency is extending its eviction moratorium until April 1st. The plan is called the REO Rental Initiative. ...

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It seems the administration is beginning to get the ball rolling in the right direction with the latest $75 billion plan. Finally a strategy acknowledging that, although we may have that same sinking feeling, the boats we're all in can be different. To extend the medical metaphors we keep seeing, j...

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Initially foreclosures were being driven by interest rate resets on exotic subprime mortgage loans and were, therefore, fairly able to predict by looking that the upcoming rate reset dates on those loans. More recently foreclosures became driven by folks growing underwater and electing to walk away ...

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