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February 4, 2010

Emerging legal theory: Suing your loan servicer for breach of the HAMP contract



The firm is open to taking on clients who can demonstrate that they have been wrongfully denied a loan modification under the terms of the Obama administration's Home Affordable Mortgage Program or HAMP, or where the loan service has failed comply...

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January 28, 2010

Don't expect your loan servicer to play by the rules...until there is a real consequence of litigation



I can tell you from the frontlines of the foreclosure crisis, that the Obama administration's Home Affordable Modification Plan or HAMP is a large scale failure.  Consider these facts from the ACORN and the Center for Responsible Lending:  -A family loses...

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January 22, 2010

Check your lender's loan mod performance history...



Source:  http://financialstability.gov/docs/report.pdf Go this link and find specific loan mod performance results on your loan servicer. The charts on page 5 of the the HAMP Modification Activity by Servicer shows the relative performance of the top 20 loan servicers that have signed...

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January 21, 2010

National loan mod results: 6% of trial mods were converted to permanent through Dec. 2009



Through December 2009, out of the 1,164,507 trial mods offered to date, only 6% or 66,465 homeowners received permanent loan mods under the HAMP plan.  However, the government claims that an additional 46,000 permanent offers are awaiting borrower acceptance as a...

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January 14, 2010

Foreclosures ramping up...prices headed down...a huge wave of sales looms in 2010



The article below takes a year end snapshot of the foreclosure situation.  However, the California numbers deserve a deeper look.  Typically, properties move through the minimum 111 day non-judicial foreclosure process at a steady rate.  Moratoriums, loan mod programs and...

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January 7, 2010

Negative equity tops $745Billion; Pressure on lenders for principal reduction or deferment may be growing...



From the front lines:  This is a timely and informative article on the likelihood of principal reduction for borowers in distress.  Wells Fargo and its subsidiary Wachovia remain the most willing, having cut $2billion of principal in 2009.  While permanent loan...

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December 30, 2009

National conversion rate of loan mods from trial to permanent status is only 8%



By Professor Jean Braucher Jean Braucher is the Roger C.  Henderson Professor of Law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College  of Law.  This article is based on a longer paper, available for free at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1518098). The Obama...

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December 12, 2009

Congress shoots down judicial loan modification...AGAIN!



The judicial mortgage modification amendment supported by NACBA in the House of Representatives failed on a 188-241 vote on Friday, December 11, 2009.  Oddly, similar legislation passed the House earlier this year on a 224-191 vote. Today, 50 Democrats who had...

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December 8, 2009

Obama Loan Mod Plan "destined to fail"; Bankruptcy cramdown revived in Congress



Behind the curve as usual, Congress will again reintroduce bankruptcy cramdown in an effort to deal with the foreclosure crisis.  This is a good article that describes what we already know:  the HAMP plan is not a good solution to...

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December 2, 2009

"Sweet heart" Loss sharing deals between banks and governments hurting loan mods



Source:  Wall Street Journal, August 2009  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125166830374670517.html   To encourage banks to pick through the wreckage of their collapsed competitors, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has agreed to assume most of the risk on $80 billion in loans and other assets....

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