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HASP Mortgage Relief Program Official Guidelines and Highlights

Click To Download Mortgage Relief Program Official Guidelines
Click To Download Mortgage Relief Program Official Guidelines

If you ever wondered what the official Mortgage Modification Guidelines look like – click on the image on the left to view the 17-page document titled “Making Home Affordable Guidelines”.  We provided the highlights of the program below.

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A Guide to Mortgage Debt Relief Tax

When it comes to taxes, there are so many different numbers and bits and pieces of information that you need to be aware of, that it is no wonder we find them so confusing.

There are very few people in the world today who are not at least a little bit confused on the topic of taxes. There are so…

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HUD Foreclosure Help – Common Misconceptions

Some people put way too much faith in the government and have created these false notions in their minds about exactly how much service the government will offer in any given situation. With the growing foreclosure crisis, and the increasing news coverage regarding the government’s proposed involvement in bailing out troubled borrowers, (such as HASP or Mortgage Relief), many people…

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Mortgage Resque Programs – New Hope For Struggling Borrowers

In the past when homeowners were faced with job loss or a change in circumstances that restricted their ability to afford their home and were not able to pay their mortgage they would have the option to refinance with lower interest rates or sell their property. For most currently this is no longer a viable option.

Struggling homeowners cannot refinance…

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Reduce Mortgage Payment: 3 Loan Modification Scenarios

Refinancing Under New Housing Plan can be confusing. Below examples provided by the US Treasury Department will help you understand the new Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan (HASP). Find out if you can refinance or lower your mortgage under the new plan.

Family A: Access to Refinancing

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Housing Plan: Can You Benefit?

Housing Plan Reduce Mortgage Payment

Many of homeowners have questions regarding the President  Barack Obama’s Housing Plan.  A lot of Americans are in various stages of foreclosure and the help can not come soon enough.   So who is eligible?

The program is expected to help those who are in danger of not making their monthly…

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Mortgage Loan Modification – 5 Things You MUST Know About The $75 Billion Housing Plan

Presently the banks are often unable to help reduce mortgage rates for homeowners that are current on their loans. The Obama's proposed plan is designed to alleviate the situation by encouraging banks to refinance or modify mortgages for responsible homeowners even if they are not yet behind on their payments.

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Minorities Most Affected By Housing Crisis

mortgage modification program - Nearly 9.5 million households, or nearly one out of every five of the nearly 52 million homeowners with a mortgage, spend 38 percent or more of their pretax income on their mortgage payment, property taxes and insurance, the AP's analysis found. That's the new threshold to qualify for the loan assistance program launched last month by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance companies now under government control.

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Banks Must ‘Step Up’ To Help Stop Foreclosure

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Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan said Thursday in an interview that it’s critically important that banks and lending institutions “step up to the plate” to help make certain the Obama administration’s new home foreclosure initiative succeeds.

“This started as a mortgage crisis but it’s become a jobs crisis,” said Donovan following the announcement of the…

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Obama’s $75 Billion Plan to Help Fight Foreclosure

In an effort to keep 9 million people from loosing their homes President Barack Obama unveiled his $75 billion mortgage relief plan on Wednesday, February 18th

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