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FHA Loans

New Homebuyer Program Already Seeing Signs of Mortgage Fraud

by Moe Bedard

While government officials said many suspect claims could turn out to be simple errors, the report found examples of claimants who already owned homes or had not yet bought one. Some 582 taxpayers were under 18 years old — as young as 4. Of the 1.4 million people who have claimed nearly $10 billion in [...]

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FHA may be setting up repeat of housing bubble, lawmakers worry

by Moe Bedard

Some lawmakers, however, worry that the FHA may be doing its job too well — enabling too many people with shaky finances to get loans, and in effect setting up a potential repeat of the housing bubble fueled in part by no-questions-asked subprime loans.

Recent numbers appear to underscore those concerns. The percentage of FHA loans [...]

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Home Loans Brokered By Nonprofits Helped Fuel The Housing Crisis

by Moe Bedard

Nehemiah, the Sacramento, Calif.-based inventor of seller-funded down payment assistance, and its closest competitor, AmeriDream of Gaithersburg, Md., together facilitated 40 percent of all such loans backed by the FHA. Over eight years, they arranged 392,000 mortgages worth $54 billion, records from the Department of Housing and Urban Development show.

While the two nonprofits earned tens [...]

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FHA foreclosures up, reserves down

by Moe Bedard

As the Federal Housing Administration rapidly increases its role in the mortgage lending business, it’s starting to face a growing number of foreclosures. While in 2006 the FHA’s market share was just 2.7 percent, now that the subprime market is just about dead, the FHA has picked up the slack and its market share reached [...]

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New FHA-Making Home Affordable Loan Modification Guidelines

by Moe Bedard

Press Release – HUD SECRETARY DONOVAN ANNOUNCES NEW FHA-MAKING HOME AFFORDABLE LOAN MODIFICATION GUIDELINES
New FHA guidelines projected to help thousands avoid foreclosure per year
WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has implemented changes to its loan modification program to ensure consistency with the [...]

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No Hope for These Homeowners Part 1

by Moe Bedard

De Las Mercedes, on October 20th, 2008 at 8:34 pm Said:
I am having a problem with Countrywide/Bank of America allowing me to apply for this program because I have not been delinquent.
I meet all the qualifications outlined by the Hope for Homeowners program; however, the home retention unit states that I am not [...]

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Foreclosure Fighter McCain Says, “Buy Home Loans From Banks and Re-negotiate the Terms to Keep Families in Their Homes.”

by Moe Bedard

In contrast to Barack Obama’s own homeownership plan, John McCain has suggested a plan to involves more direct federal ownership of distressed mortgage assets. McCain’s plan, entitled the McCain American Homeownership Resurgence Plan, seeks to utilize the recently granted Treasury Secretary authority to use federal funds to help adjust mortgage terms for homeowners.
Simply put, the [...]

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Hope for Homeowners List of Lenders

by Moe Bedard

HUD has released their Hope for Homeowners (H4H) approved lender list that you can access below.
HUD, “When contacting any of the HOPE for Homeowners lenders on the list, borrowers “are strongly encouraged to contact your servicing lender and any subordinate lien holders since their participation is vital for you to refinance into a HOPE for Homeowners mortgage.”
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Hope for Homeowners: Will it Help You?

by Moe Bedard

The Hope for Homeowers (H4H) program has been launched and as I have mentioned before here on LoanWorkout, I am very apprehensive as to what this will do for struggling homeowners on Main Street. The reason I am looking at the H4H so pessimistically is because it still leaves lender and mortgage servicer participation in [...]

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The Year of Foreclosure Prevention Flops

by Moe Bedard

Looking back over the last year, I can’t help but notice the ridiculous amount of clever names used by our government and other consumer advocates in relation to homeowner foreclosure assistance and relief.
The latest Hope for Homeowners program has met little fan fare on this blog because quite frankly, I feel it is just the [...]

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Uncle Sam Realty and Loans Inc.

by Moe Bedard

Sadly, recent events in Washington suggest that this optimism of some kind of meaningful rescue plan for Main Street may have been misplaced and that politicians, never the most economically intelligent of mankind, may be working towards constructing the Great Depression - Part II.
The reality now is that we are heading into a major recession and the [...]

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The FHA Secure Flop and The No Hope Now Plan = 2 Strikes for the Bush Administration

by Moe Bedard

In only the first 4 months of FHASecure, more than 40,000 households have refinanced under the new housing insurance program to protect their families’ investment in the American Dream.  Announced by President Bush on August 31, 2007, along with HUD Secretary Jackson and Treasury Secretary Paulson, FHASecure is already helping thousands of American families, faced [...]

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FHA Secure

by Moe Bedard

It’s been all over the news and I’m sure everyone has been talking about President Bush’s speech today. He laid out plans for aid and laid the foundation for the FHA Secure Loan that will be rolled out to approximately 80,000 homeowners shortly. I yawned as I turned the channel to watch something a little more interesting and [...]

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