The government has created several programs to help homeowners in foreclosure or in risk of foreclosure. The government programs are:
* Hope for Homeowners
* Freeze Rate
* FHA Loan Modification
* FHA Secure
* Preject LifeLine
* Programa Esperanza para Propietarios
* Plan Obama or Home Affordable Modification Program ( HAMP)
Obama Foreclosure Plan - Obama Homeowners Plan ( HAMP)
The latest and most popular plan is the Home Affordable Modification Program ( HAMP) known as the Obama Foreclosure Plan. This plan will help homeowners providing them with:
* Affordable Refinance if they have equity in their homes and
* Affordable Loan Modification
Loan Modification under the Obama Plan is the program that fits more homeowners. The program is very generous but for a homeowner to get a loan under this program the lender and the homeowners have to agree to it.
The advantages of this Obama Plan for Foreclosures are:
1. You will get an affordable mortgage payment : maximum 31% of your income
2. You will get an incentive of $1,000 a year for 5 years to pay the principal
Before just loans own by Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac qualified but now , the program has expanded and more homeowners that are late in their payment, receive their foreclosure notice or whom already have a foreclosure date can qualify.
Please be collecting the following documentation. A Proffesional Loan Modification Officer will call you and need your information to compare it with the qualifications from the Obama Program ( Home Affordable Modification Program - HAMP).
* Detail Information about your monthly income ( gross or before taxes). This includes the income of everybody that lives in your home ( spouse, partner, children, etc).
* Your income tax return for 2008 or the most recent one
* Savings information
* Assets informations
* Information about your first mortgage (Monthly Mortgage Statement.)
* Information about any second mortgage or home equity line of credit on the house (Monthly Statement.)
* Account balances and minimum monthly payments due on all of your credit cards.
* Account balances and monthly payments on all your other debts such as student loans and car loans.
Those homeowners that do not qualify to the Obama Mortgage Plan because they are investors or own several homes have access to other program with lenders. |