Struggling homeowners left in limbo

by Moe Bedard on August 26, 2009

Overall, about 15 percent of borrowers across the country who are eligible for the program have been offered help from their lender, according to a recent U.S. Treasury Department report. Of those homeowners, 9 percent have participated in a trial loan modification. President Barack Obama’s administration is calling for lenders to ramp up their efforts and help 500,000 more homeowners by November.

For homeowners facing foreclosure, the loan-modification process is slow, time-consuming and exhausting. Homeowners fall further behind as lenders, who say they are training more workers to handle the flood of requests, keep them waiting. Even when a loan modification is approved, some people discover the results are disappointing.

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Sandra Hernandez August 26, 2009 at 1:03 pm

Does anyone have an idea of when we will be receiving the refund of the $3500.00 retainer we paid in good faith to the Rodis Law Group for “not assisting us with our mortgage”?

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