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There are a lot of myths surrounding lenders and servicers as to what they will and will not do during the loan modification process. 
The confusion and inaccurate data that is propagating the internet and the news is based on ill-informed bloggers or journalists who really have no idea what is going on in the loss mitigation arena. This [...]

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More lender propaganda, more media lip service, and as Jerry Seinfeld would say, “Yada, yada, yada.”
How can these guys do anything without the proper staffing? How can they truly handle all the loan workouts, and loan modifications that are needed to really increase their anti-foreclosure efforts?
The fact is, they CAN’T!
Think about this ladies and gentleman, please??!!!!!!!!!
Over the last few [...]

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Hope Now and the MBA asked, “So, how many loan modifications did you do Litton?”
“3,235,” the Litton rep said.
The boys at the “round table” pick up the phone and call Angelo, “How many did you do Countrywide?”  
“We did 7,978 guys. Never mind that!” Mr. Mozilo said,”We’re going to have martinis later on  the golf course!”
Listen here [...]

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Submitted by LoanWorkout.org Reader Rick 
You know as well as I do, the majority of people who are now underwater with their loans were all encouraged to go for it by the RE agent AND the Loan Officer. Why??? Because the RE agent and LO would get a commission for loaning out someone else’s money!
The person [...]

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Emails, letters, and scandal, seem to be circling Mr. Angelo Mozilo has he scurries to cover up when the light is exposed on his famously tanned hide. 
The light flips on and BAM! Out goes the Countrywide Freeze Super Hero’s who are paid by Mozilo to fix PR problems, and put muzzles on homeowers who may expose what [...]

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Yes, loan modifications and loan workouts are happening and it appears that most lenders and servicers have stepped up to the loss mitigation plate. Or have they?
Hope Now, led by US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, has just reported record loan workouts in April.
It is only common sense, that every month we are going to start to [...]

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New Regulation, Monitoring Lender Loan Modification Sets National Standard in Addressing Foreclosure Crisis
BOSTON— Friday, May 30, 2008— In order to increase the pace of lenders responding to homeowners hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis, Governor Deval Patrick has asked the Division of Banks (DOB) to begin evaluating all state licensed mortgage lenders on the basis [...]

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Welcome to the new way of putting muzzles on homeowners that can shed some light on Countrywide’s widely known practice of customer abuse. Fix their loan in record time, give them a deal they could have never have thought of in their wildest dreams and make them sign a confidentiality agreement.
Such as the case of [...]

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It isn’t every day that you get to see behind the scenes of the housing and mortgage crisis. Mainstream media usually tells the same homeowner story of pain and suffering and then the “made up” stories from the lenders and servicers who are masters of deception and lip service.
Here is an email that was forwarded [...]

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I have studied and written about the subject of loan modifications probably more than anyone in the world. My studies and writing have opened my eyes to how the loss mitigation process works and what a homeowner needs to do to get a loan modification with their lender or servicer.
What started out has just a blog to help [...]

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Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence :
BANK (NATIONAL) (THREAT TO LIBERTY)
If the American People ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will [...]

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May 16, 2008
HP-981Before the Washington Post 200 Lunch
Washington - Thank you, Len. Over the last forty years, Washington has transformed into a diverse corporate center. Congratulations to the Post for recognizing this through their annual list of 200. And I am pleased to join you and represent the “old” Washington, the less than ten [...]

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PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., the U.S. subsidiary of The PMI Group, Inc. (NYSE: PMI), today announced that it has issued new guidelines for modification of insured loans that will help more distressed borrowers save their homes. The new guidelines define the criteria for loans insured by PMI that qualify for modifications, and delegates the authority [...]

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This was submitted by a Loan Safe Forum member
A few days ago I discovered this forum when I had less than 2 weeks before the sale date of my property. Thanks to the advice discussed, I learned some very important things that I wish I would have known 3 months ago when I was 1st given [...]

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Barney Frank: We’re telling people, “We wish you would use this alternative process.” Some of them will say, “Well, I can make more money foreclosing, so the hell with ya.”
Lenders are lobbying furiously against any move to give judges the power to adjust mortgages.
The House is expected to consider a $300 billion housing rescue package [...]

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Further evidence of the crisis came last week, with the second report published by the State Foreclosure Prevention Working Group, which also found that industry efforts to avoid unnecessary foreclosures are not keeping pace with the rising rate of homeowners in trouble. The report provides analysis of data from October 2007 through January 2008, and [...]

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Bank of America is in the process of finalizing the deal in acquiring Countrywide Financial. Along with the Countrywide deal, B of A stands to inherit all of Countrywide’s baggage and this is no carry on bag for your favorite weekend getaway.
It’s a super duper, toxic sludge bag of mortgages with sprinkles of good loans [...]

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Industry measures to keep homeowners out of foreclosure are barely keeping pace with the rising rate of homeowners in trouble, according to Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and other state officials. “The number of borrowers in loss mitigation has increased,” Miller said, “but the gains have been matched by an increasing level of delinquent loans.”
The [...]

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Let’s face reality America. Almost every home in America is sitting in quicksand.
Slowly, but surely your home is sinking down, further and further and it looks like main street America is getting hip to the fact that lenders, servicers, Hope Now and our mighty government isn’t going to help them.
A new study, compiled by the [...]

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Federal Reserve Board Governor Randall Kroszner said on Monday, ” With the continuing high rates of foreclosure and the high costs associated with foreclosures, it is in the interest of lenders, investors, and borrowers to develop prudent loan modification programs to help borrowers on a larger scale and at sustainable levels.
Efforts to streamline or standardize [...]

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Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said in an interview with reporters and editors of The Associated Press that loan servicing companies - which collect mortgage payments and distribute them to investors - should help modify and refinance more home loans.
“If there’s not a lot of voluntary participation now, that’s [...]

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The word is out and the banks and servicers need to get a clue. People are walking from their underwater homes in droves. What was once taboo has become the “smart” thing to do for many Americans.
This rhetoric that 50% of homeowners do not speak with their lenders or servicers is actually true.
But it isn’t because they [...]

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 Sheila Bair says government intervention is needed—soon
As chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.—the agency charged with protecting accounts at the nation’s 8,500 banks—Sheila Bair is knee deep in the government’s efforts to resolve America’s most harrowing financial crisis in a generation. She recently sat down with U.S. News to discuss the cancerous effect of [...]

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WASHINGTON (Thomson Financial) - Mortgage servicing companies which are resisting loan modifications aimed at preventing foreclosures need to stop fighting the idea or face tougher regulation, Democratic Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Barney Frank of Massachusetts warned today.
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WASHINGTON, March 19  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Federal Reserve Board has repeatedly tried since September to contain the foreclosure crisis damage that’s spreading rapidly into the general economy. It has lowered key interest rates a half dozen times and, to quote the Wall Street Journal, “undertaken the broadest expansions of its lending authority since the 1930s.” [...]

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Filed under: You Walk Away
NY Times:
Mr. Paulson reiterated his opposition to proposals for a government bailout of subprime borrowers, which would also bail out many lenders. But he acknowledged that mortgage lenders and mortgage-servicing companies were not moving as rapidly on loan modifications as he would have liked.
“Am I satisfied? No,” he said. “Am I [...]

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Yes, you heard it right and I am going to stand by these comments and this post 110%.
Non-profits serve a great need in helping homeowners work out their loans. But in their attempts to be of service, they are actually performing a disservice to the homeowner. They are missing the most important ingredient in assisting a [...]

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This blog was started a little over 8 months ago with one purpose. To promote massive loan modifications. My blog was actually the only website on the internet that disseminated information about loan modifications to the media and to consumers.
8 months ago, a loan modification was like a white elephant. Rare, never talked about and rarely will [...]

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It is about time that these lawsuits start to hit our court system. I am not a big fan of court and everyone suing each other. But what needs to be done, needs to be done and it’s all for the better. Especially against these mortgage servicing companies that are abusing homeowners and charging bogus fees.
Attention [...]

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Two Countrywide trips go around the outside, around the outside, around the outside. Two Countrywide trips go around the outside, around the outside. Now, dosie doe Mozilo.
Jane Wells CNBC - Countrywide Cancels Second Florida Event

Friday night Countrywide informed me that an employee sales event planned in April at an expensive Florida resort has been cancelled.
I’ve been blogging [...]

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Finally these banks Will have some accountability for their actions. Up until now, it has been all public and media lip service. Puff and fluff press releases and merry Hope Now meetings no more. They will have to report the truth or suffer. What they will suffer, I don’t know?
LA Times:
The U.S. Office of the [...]

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The lenders and bankers are fighting the new bankruptcy bill big time because they hate when government meddles in their business. Well, they hate it when it affects their bottom line. But hey, they sure don’t mind  government assistance if it means bailing their butts out of the the mortgage waters. Even if they were the ones that caused the [...]

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Press Release from the FDIC
It is truly a sign of unusual economic times when a group of high tech leaders asks a bank regulator of all people to speak to them.
But bank regulation – or perhaps I should say weaknesses and holes in our bank regulatory structure — lie at the heart of our current [...]

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Alright staff. I am under investigation by the SEC. Our stocks are down big time. All those toxic loans we made over the last few years are going bad. Our share holders and the media is on my a$$ big time. I know, let’s go skiing!
Another fabulous idea from Angelo Mozilo and the Countrywide camp. What [...]

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LoanWorkout.org is the only blog on the internet dedicated to following what lenders and servicers are “really” doing in regards to their loan modification and loss mitigation efforts.
Are you having trouble with your home loan? Has your mortgage adjusted and you cannot afford the new payment? Were you placed into a bad loan and you [...]

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First Countrywide sold you a toxic loan that caused you to lose your home to foreclosure and devastate you financially and emotionally. Now, they are profiting from your misery by touring your foreclosed home with would be Donald Trumps, AKA foreclosure investors, in the new sick “for profit” service known as “foreclosure bus tours”.
First they had “Flip This House” [...]

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The Loan Safe Advocacy Group in association with the Law Offices of Marshall E. Rosesnbach and the media is proud to announce that we are now offering for a limited time FREE help to 10 lucky homeowners that are facing mortgage issues or foreclosure in the Inland Empire of California.
The only catch is that in [...]

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First we had the FHA Secure loan that was “supposed” to be a life raft for hundreds of thousands of homeowners. Then we had the Hope Now coalition led by US Secretary Paulson and his army of lenders that took out their freeze guns and placed a “limited” amount of loans in a “secret” freezer [...]

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WASHINGTON — The pace of loan modifications on adjustable subprime mortgages is lagging, which could prompt regulatory action on the mortgage industry, U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair warned Thursday.
“Unfortunately, at this point, the available information seems to show that foreclosures continue at an unacceptably high level while true loan modifications are lagging,” [...]

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 Please join our one of a kind homeowner’s forum to help you stop foreclosure and where you can ask questions and get answers in this unique and interactive community. This forum was created to assist people in an anonymous, yet open question format. Meet other homeowners that are trying to get a loan modification and are going through [...]

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There has been a recent change in the air and it looks like the tides are starting to change for the better for those homeowners who are wishing and a hoping to modify their exploding, adjustable rate mortgage.
There has been strong resistance in the recent past with lenders and servicers willingness to work with borrowers in fixing their toxic [...]

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The the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law holds a hearing today. The subject of the hearing is the “Growing Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis: Identifying Solutions and Dispelling Myths” and the new bankruptcy bill is on the agenda.
The Mortgage Bankers Association  (MBA) has an agenda and their agenda [...]

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By Poppy (36 year mortgage industry veteran & senior underwriter)
This is a challenging and open statement to those of you in the Servicing game, Modification, Short Sale, Deed in Lieu, Collections, better known as the Work Out phase of our industry. 
This is where I started in this industry in 1972, at a little tiny, itsy bitsy [...]

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“This is deadly serious,” Sheila Bair said  in a speech Downtown. “Foreclosures are too high in Pittsburgh and around the country.”
The FDIC chairman seems to speaking out more and more in regards to the efforts of lenders and servicers to perform loan workouts and loan modifications. Bair spoke at a downtown Pittsburg, Pa. to more [...]

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Outlines Visions For Tackling America’s Immediate And Long-Term Economic Challenges
Just days before the State of the Union Address, Hillary Clinton urged the current administration to take immediate action to jumpstart the ailing economy. She outlined the solutions that can be taken now to fix the mortgage crisis and get more money in the pockets of [...]

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By JacMac - Homeowner & Single Mother from New York
See her actual Loan Modification Paperwork From Countrywide Here.  An incredible 5.25% 4o Year Fixed Mortgage! You don’t get to see an actual loan modifcation document often and I wanted homeowners to see for their own eyes.
JacMac - “I did not have the horrible experience that others unfortunately [...]

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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Downey Financial Corp. announced today changes to previously reported levels of non-performing assets. These changes pertain to non-performing asset levels since June 30, 2007.
Rick McGill, President, commented, “As previously reported, we implemented at the beginning of the third quarter of 2007 a borrower retention program to provide qualified [...]

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This is going to be my first post where I mention Countrywide and I do not bash them. I have said many times that Countrywide Can’t. This week they showed me that Countrywide Can.
3 real people ontained a loan modification from Countrywide. Thanks Countrywide. Geez, I never thought those words would cross my lips.
Yes, real live loan modifications. [...]

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We are looking for Coutrywide borrowers that are stuck in a mortgage that is unaffordable or predatory. We want to help you fight back against Countrwyide Home Retention Department and make them fix your mortgage with a loan modification.

If you are having no luck in obtaining help from Countrywide, the we want to hear from you. We want to [...]

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The U.S. House Judiciary approved a new bankruptcy bill Wednesday that would enable homeowners to modify their mortgages in bankruptcy court. The bill that has been designed to keep homeowners in their homes has had it’s share of controversy and opposition.
The bill would change the lender friendly and pro creditor stance to amend part of the nation’s bankruptcy [...]

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