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What You Need to Know About Loan Modification

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

What You Need to Know About a Loan Modification?

As the Obama loan modification programs are there to help homeowners with loan modification either thru Making Home Affordable or Home Affordable Modification Program, there are things you as a homeowner need to know.

loan-modificationFirst of all, the banks are subsidized by our TARP money and encouraged to re-structure existing loans for homeowners. Many banks are already partially owned by the government, for example the government owns 35% of Citibank to name one. So, it seems clear that the pressure is on the banking systems to handle loan modifications and turn our economy around as quickly as possible and with the support of government loan modification programs.

American Homeowner Wanting a Loan Modification

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

As homeowners are trying to get their loan modifications either on their own or by an Attorney Loan Modification Company it seems like many banks are just short on staff and also short on knowledgeable staff. The wait period for a loan modification and qualifying for any of the programs or even HAMP seems to be lengthy. The typically loan modification as far as when final terms are actually inked and sent to the homeowner can take anywhere from 60 to 90 days.