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Family obtains a loan modification through news station to save home

by Moe Bedard

Ocwen offered the couple a minor modification, but they couldn’t afford it.

They were told if they couldn’t make payments, their house would be foreclosed.
“You feel like there’s no way out,” Jack said.

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Arizona homeowners get free foreclosure help

by Moe Bedard

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Struggling homeowners from across the Valley made their way to Glendale on Thursday to try and save their homes.

They attended a workshop designed to help homeowners on the verge of foreclosure.

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Fighting foreclosures and winning

by Moe Bedard

Unbeknownst to the 71-yearold homeowner, he had somehow missed a mortgage payment a couple of years ago. The accumulating interest and penalties from the late payment threatened to put Mr. McConnell two months behind on his mortgage — and possibly subject to foreclosure.

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Nevada courts weigh foreclosure mediation program

by Moe Bedard

The Nevada Supreme Court will consider amendments to the rules governing the Nevada Foreclosure Mediation Program at a public hearing at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 16.
The meeting will be based in Carson City but will be available through teleconference in the court’s Las Vegas courtroom on the 17th floor of the Regional Justice Center, 200 [...]

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Homeowners face the fear of foreclosure

by Moe Bedard

Tracy Jackson wasn’t sure when she arrived at a foreclosure-prevention workshop Saturday morning whether she would be able to hold on to the West Baltimore rowhouse she’s owned for past five years.
Two hours later, she was breathing a sigh of relief.

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Chicago lawyers offer free foreclosure help

by Moe Bedard

Lawyers from the Lake County Bar Association will be offering free help to people who are on the brink of foreclosure on Saturday, March 6, in Grayslake.
The lawyers, who are specially trained and volunteering their assistance, will be at the University Center on the College of Lake County campus in Grayslake from 8 a.m. to [...]

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Hawaii welcomes forelclosure mediation

by Moe Bedard

“My mortgage payment is so high I have tried since last year talking to them lower it and they won’t,” Snook said.
If the bank takes her to court for foreclosure, a test program operating only in the Big Island’s 3rd Circuit Court may help. Judges there are now giving foreclosed owner-occupants notice that they have [...]

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Florida foreclosure mediation to begin April 1

by Moe Bedard

Florida’s been hit so hard, foreclosure cases are clogging up the court system. So, state officials have created a new mediation program for borrowers and lenders to streamline the residential foreclosure process.
Borrowers and lenders will sit down with a trained mediator to review the case. This extra step will ensure a fair handling of the [...]

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Hundreds of homeowners get help from NACA in Palm Beach, Florida

by Moe Bedard

WEST PALM BEACH — The extent of the nation’s housing crisis was tangible Thursday morning. It stretched the length of one side of Palm Beach County’s Convention Center as hundreds of homeowners, wrapped in blankets and travel-weary after flying from as far away as California, waited for the salvation of a mortgage modification.

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Too many homeowners do not get foreclosure mediation

by Moe Bedard

Although Governor O’Malley’s legislation is being called a mandatory mediation bill, mediation is not the most important element of it. The key is that it will force lenders or loan servicers to make an affidavit before they file for foreclosure indicating that they have tried all other options first.

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Free foreclosure help in Seattle & Tacoma, Wa. this weekend

by Moe Bedard

Has your income been reduced? Are you falling behind on your mortgage payments? Are your mortgage payments increasing? Do you feel like you were misled when you got your loan and now you can’t afford the payments? Don’t know where to start?
On Saturday, there will be free, foreclosure-prevention workshops in Seattle and Tacoma.

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Florida Judges Say Lenders Need to Investigate Who Owns the Mortgage

by Moe Bedard

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Lenders will be required to pick up the tab for investigating and verifying ownership and then try mediation before foreclosing Florida home mortgages under new rules approved Thursday by the Florida Supreme Court.

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Free Foreclosure Seminar in the Inland Empire on Feb. 20th

by Moe Bedard

Last year, there were eight similar workshops; at least five are planned this year.
About 300 people are expected to attend the Central Park event.
Hooker said the region is still
in the thick of the foreclosure crisis. He said the Inland Empire is expected to see 100,000 foreclosures in the next two years.

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Need to Stop Foreclosure? List of Foreclosure Prevention Workshops

by Moe Bedard

FREE Foreclosure Prevention Workshops for Consumers – Looking to stop foreclosure and need FREE foreclosure prevention advice? Do you want to avoid being scammed by loan modification sharks? Then please attend one of these foreclosure workshops for homeowners sponsored by a community-based organization in your area.
Please click on the ‘Event Details’ links for dates and [...]

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Foreclosure Mediation in Maryland

by Moe Bedard

Gov. Martin O’Malley wants to make mediation a part of the foreclosure process in Maryland, offering it as one way to head off more avoidable trips to the auction block. Mediation has popped up in other states, but not in the same way everywhere. So what’s the plan here?
Kathleen Skullney, the staff attorney for the [...]

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Government Mortgage Modification Hotline

by Moe Bedard

Borrowers who feel that they have been unfairly denied a modification or received an improper one under the Home Affordable Modification Program can call the Homeowner’s Hope hotline, 1-888-995-HOPE (4673). Ask for “MHA Help” for assistance. For FAQs and forms, you can also visit the HAMP Web site at http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov/
Can’t get the help you need [...]

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Free foreclosure clinics can help you avoid foreclosure

by Moe Bedard

He was among about 15 people who got an overview of the notoriously complicated and frustrating foreclosure process at the Legal Aid Society’s free clinic on Thursday night.
“Hopefully I’ve got enough time to where I can nip this thing in the bud,” Mullins said after hearing his options.

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Pennsylvania’s Homeowners’ Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program Wins Fans

by Moe Bedard

Pennsylvania’s Homeowners’ Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program was created in the 1980s in response to job losses in the steel and coal industries. With funding tight, the approval rate for new loans in the Pennsylvania program has fallen to about 22% from a high of more than 40% in the 1980s. Roughly 80% of loans involve [...]

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Maine’s foreclosure diversion program helping homeowners

by Moe Bedard

SPRINGVALE, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — People faced with foreclosure have help working through the process thanks to a new state program.  The Foreclosure Diversion Program started in York County on a trial basis late last year, but the program’s success bringing lenders and homeowners together to meet with a trained mediator has allowed it to [...]

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Hawaii’s Big Island offers foreclosure mediation to struggling homeowners

by Moe Bedard

Homeowners on the Big Island who have been served with a foreclosure action on the residential property that they occupy may ask to participate in mediation with the lender before the case is heard by a judge.
Lenders seeking to foreclose on owner-occupied residential properties must now notify the borrowers that they have the option of [...]

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