Why Need A Qualified And Licensed Attorney For Your Loan Modification
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Hire a Qualified and Licensed Attorney for Your Loan Modification
The last 5 years is nothing but violations of all kinds of laws including TILA, RESPA and HOEPA by all kinds of lenders including the big lenders. My bad list of lenders include Countrywide, WAMU, and of course Citi. City has already eaten up 40 billion of federal money, and is still teetering on the brinks of a disaster. They are also at the same most arrogant and unhelpful lenders. Most of the foreclosure mess is created by these bankers, including of course many small bankers. They over qualified people who could not handle the burden of loan. These folks should not have been home buyers in the first place. The example, I give quite often is of my son is 10 years old and is in 5th grade. I give him one dollar every day for his allowance. Imagine if I start giving him instead $100 every day for his pocket allowance. It would spoil him in less than one month and show him how to be financially irresponsible. It is another thing if I open a saving account and put $100 in his account every day. Of course that would be a fantastic idea for his college education and bright future.
There is No More Waiting Required— You Waited Long Enough.
The foreclosure process is designed so that you have time to get back on your feet and save your home. But that doesn’t mean it’s safe to procrastinate. The longer you wait, the harder it gets to get you out of that fix. As soon as you decide you need mortgage help, call for a loan modification help and get started.
Who Else But a Qualified Attorney?
Your lenders policies have hurt you too much. Your broker (former) and loan officer along with mortgage bankers and all the other allied people have hurt you much. IN fact, this foreclosure fiasco was caused originally by combination of all these folks and their unlimited greed. Don’t let them continue this game. We all are hurt by this collective deceptive practice. So let us work together and stop it.
Don’t file for bankruptcy, unless you really have to.
Filing bankruptcy is not a solution; at the most it would delay the process. In some cases, it would jeopardize your loan modification process. Remember Automatic Stay under bankruptcy and then affirmation of debts. They are time consuming things. You lose the leverage and deterrence of bankruptcy to use in your loan modification. I never file bankruptcy before loan modification. In fact, in my law office, I keep them separate and never unify them. Because of the knowledge of bankruptcy, foreclosure, and loan modification: an attorney can be uniquely qualified to cover all these areas and knowledge of all these areas, would be very helpful. Just don’t file bankruptcy at the very outset. It may give some time but it is not the solution. Also, please don’t file bankruptcy just for your home loan unless you have lots of unsecured debts
Do Have Any Alternative Plan.
Why Do Lenders Prefer Loan Mod Over Foreclosure?
-Loan Modification is a temporary help. Get qualified for this. There is nothing to be embarrassing in all this issue. Lots of these things had happened out of our control.
-Your lenders are still difficult to work with; they have built fireballs around which you have to cross. The secret is that by doing loan modification they are helping themselves. On a cost benefit analysis, they lose more money in a foreclosure. It saves money, and this is a time tested factor that lenders save money on loan modification and lose money in foreclosure.
Let us analyze the situation here in greater details.
Loan modification is cheaper. They deal with one borrower only and not a plethora of people like default agency, governmental agencies, and the auctioneer and furthermore a new person in the entity who is stills an unknown commodity. A loan modification takes place in 30 or 60 days while the foreclosure process is long and it has its statutory limitations. The paperwork is less in loan modification compared with foreclosure process. In foreclosure, your lender will assess all kinds of late payments, expenses and attorney fees, and of course a repair for the home to make it at least presentable. All these add up in the cost to lender. Your lender is tired of foreclosing home. They have a high list of REO properties, and no one is buying them. A loan modification process can slow down your foreclosure process but it is not a safe guarantee against the foreclosure. However, as long as borrower is talking, communicating with their lenders, they would not or at least hesitate to send their home to the auction block. Ideally speaking, don’t sit and wait for this time to come. Do something now. It is the time. It is your home. Find someone who is professionally qualified to help you. It is your local attorney who has a local office, easy to find and communicate and licensed in the State of Nevada.
1. Put everything on paper. It’s not uncommon for lenders, especially smaller ones, to lose track of your application. To prevent delays, make sure all your efforts are documented and kept on file. This includes all the calls you make and receive, both from your lender and loan modification attorney. Keep receipts of all your transactions, and make copies so you don’t have to let go of the originals.
2. Do your own financial statements. Part of every home loan modification is a financial worksheet, which will be your main basis for qualification. Most lenders have their own forms, but it won’t hurt to make your own as well. If your lender insists on using their worksheet, at least you’ll have all the information ready.
3. Be as detailed as possible. Too much information is better than too little, and it limits the chances that they’ll call you for more information. A typical worksheet for a mortgage home work modification will include the following:
-Your contact information (address, home phone and work phone, fax and email) -Information about your property, including the estimated value -Your current income -Any additional income, such as welfare, child support, etc. -Your estimated total value, including other assets such as real estate, savings and checking accounts, IRAs, 401(k), stocks and bonds.
-Liabilities, such as existing loans monthly bills, medical expenses, and tax liens
4. Keep all your bills. Keep track of all of your bills in a methodical order. Make sure you write down your grocery bill, your utilities, including water, power, gas, and trash charges. Now, add on your monthly bill of HOA, any other community charges, your insurance charges, your child support, and other alimony issues or legal expenses. Possibly, a positive cash statements would be an ideal one to work with banks.
About the Author:
Hire a Qualified and Licensed Attorney for Your Loan Modification
The last 5 years is nothing but violations of all kinds of laws including TILA, RESPA and HOEPA by all kinds of lenders including the big lenders. My bad list of lenders include Countrywide, WAMU, and of course Citi. City has already eaten up 40 billion of federal money, and is still teetering on the brinks of a disaster. They are also at the same most arrogant and unhelpful lenders. Most of the foreclosure mess is created by these bankers, including of course many small bankers. They over qualified people who could not handle the burden of loan. These folks should not have been home buyers in the first place. The example, I give quite often is of my son is 10 years old and is in 5th grade. I give him one dollar every day for his allowance. Imagine if I start giving him instead $100 every day for his pocket allowance. It would spoil him in less than one month and show him how to be financially irresponsible. It is another thing if I open a saving account and put $100 in his account every day. Of course that would be a fantastic idea for his college education and bright future.
There is No More Waiting Required— You Waited Long Enough.
The foreclosure process is designed so that you have time to get back on your feet and save your home. But that doesn’t mean it’s safe to procrastinate. The longer you wait, the harder it gets to get you out of that fix. As soon as you decide you need mortgage help, call for a loan modification help and get started.
Who Else But a Qualified Attorney?
Your lenders policies have hurt you too much. Your broker (former) and loan officer along with mortgage bankers and all the other allied people have hurt you much. IN fact, this foreclosure fiasco was caused originally by combination of all these folks and their unlimited greed. Don’t let them continue this game. We all are hurt by this collective deceptive practice. So let us work together and stop it.
Don’t file for bankruptcy, unless you really have to.
Filing bankruptcy is not a solution; at the most it would delay the process. In some cases, it would jeopardize your loan modification process. Remember Automatic Stay under bankruptcy and then affirmation of debts. They are time consuming things. You lose the leverage and deterrence of bankruptcy to use in your loan modification. I never file bankruptcy before loan modification. In fact, in my law office, I keep them separate and never unify them. Because of the knowledge of bankruptcy, foreclosure, and loan modification: an attorney can be uniquely qualified to cover all these areas and knowledge of all these areas, would be very helpful. Just don’t file bankruptcy at the very outset. It may give some time but it is not the solution. Also, please don’t file bankruptcy just for your home loan unless you have lots of unsecured debts
Do Have Any Alternative Plan.
Why Do Lenders Prefer Loan Mod Over Foreclosure?
-Loan Modification is a temporary help. Get qualified for this. There is nothing to be embarrassing in all this issue. Lots of these things had happened out of our control.
-Your lenders are still difficult to work with; they have built fireballs around which you have to cross. The secret is that by doing loan modification they are helping themselves. On a cost benefit analysis, they lose more money in a foreclosure. It saves money, and this is a time tested factor that lenders save money on loan modification and lose money in foreclosure.
Let us analyze the situation here in greater details.
Loan modification is cheaper. They deal with one borrower only and not a plethora of people like default agency, governmental agencies, and the auctioneer and furthermore a new person in the entity who is stills an unknown commodity. A loan modification takes place in 30 or 60 days while the foreclosure process is long and it has its statutory limitations. The paperwork is less in loan modification compared with foreclosure process. In foreclosure, your lender will assess all kinds of late payments, expenses and attorney fees, and of course a repair for the home to make it at least presentable. All these add up in the cost to lender. Your lender is tired of foreclosing home. They have a high list of REO properties, and no one is buying them. A loan modification process can slow down your foreclosure process but it is not a safe guarantee against the foreclosure. However, as long as borrower is talking, communicating with their lenders, they would not or at least hesitate to send their home to the auction block. Ideally speaking, don’t sit and wait for this time to come. Do something now. It is the time. It is your home. Find someone who is professionally qualified to help you. It is your local attorney who has a local office, easy to find and communicate and licensed in the State of Nevada.
1. Put everything on paper. It’s not uncommon for lenders, especially smaller ones, to lose track of your application. To prevent delays, make sure all your efforts are documented and kept on file. This includes all the calls you make and receive, both from your lender and loan modification attorney. Keep receipts of all your transactions, and make copies so you don’t have to let go of the originals.
2. Do your own financial statements. Part of every home loan modification is a financial worksheet, which will be your main basis for qualification. Most lenders have their own forms, but it won’t hurt to make your own as well. If your lender insists on using their worksheet, at least you’ll have all the information ready.
3. Be as detailed as possible. Too much information is better than too little, and it limits the chances that they’ll call you for more information. A typical worksheet for a mortgage home work modification will include the following:
-Your contact information (address, home phone and work phone, fax and email) -Information about your property, including the estimated value -Your current income -Any additional income, such as welfare, child support, etc. -Your estimated total value, including other assets such as real estate, savings and checking accounts, IRAs, 401(k), stocks and bonds.
-Liabilities, such as existing loans monthly bills, medical expenses, and tax liens
4. Keep all your bills. Keep track of all of your bills in a methodical order. Make sure you write down your grocery bill, your utilities, including water, power, gas, and trash charges. Now, add on your monthly bill of HOA, any other community charges, your insurance charges, your child support, and other alimony issues or legal expenses. Possibly, a positive cash statements would be an ideal one to work with banks.
About the Author:
Malik Ahmad is a Nevada licensed attorney and counselor at law. He is admitted in all courts in the state of Nevada, including US District Court. He has an extensive experience in real estate, including mortgages, escrow, rela estate and foreclosure. He is a solo proprietor and the principal of a small firm in Las Vegas, Nevada
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