Mortgage Modification Under HASP – Are You Eligible?

February 24th, 2009 by michael e. riley

Housing Plan Reduce Mortgage Payment

Many of homeowners have questions regarding the President Barack Obama’s Housing Plan. A lot of Americans are in various stages of foreclosure and the help can not come soon enough. So who is eligible?

The program is expected to help those who are in danger of not making their monthly payments. The applicants do not have to be behind, but may be asked to demonstrate that they may be short on making their monthly payments. The program’s eligibility is determined by whether the monthly mortgage payment is above 31% of applicant’s gross income. Jumbo loans (the loans over $417,000) are not eligible and neither are second mortgages.

The lenders and loan servicers are encouraged to …

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Minorities Most Affected By Housing Crisis

February 20th, 2009 by michael e. riley

mortgage modification program – Nearly 9.5 million households, or nearly one out of every five of the nearly 52 million homeowners with a mortgage, spend 38 percent or more of their pretax income on their mortgage payment, property taxes and insurance, the AP’s analysis found. That’s the new threshold to qualify for the loan assistance program launched last month by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance companies now under government control.

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