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Loan Modifications

We Will Help You Stay In Your Las Vegas or Henderson Home, You Have Options, HAMP

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

 

Home Affordable Modification Program: Overview

The Home Affordable Modification Program is designed to help as many as 3 to 4 million financially struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure by modifying loans to a level that is affordable for borrowers now and sustainable over the long term. The program provides clear and consistent loan modification guidelines that the entire mortgage industry can use.

Borrower eligibility is based on meeting specific criteria including:
1) borrower is delinquent on their mortgage or faces imminent risk of default
2) property is occupied as borrower’s primary residence
3) mortgage was originated on or before Jan. 1, 2009 and unpaid principal balance must be no greater than $729,750 for one-unit properties.

After determining a borrower’s eligibility, a servicer will …click here to read more http://www.vegasshortsalehomes.com/835380/2009/12/23/Home-Affordable-Modification-Program-Las-Vegas-Henderson-Nevada.aspx

 

Steve Wadkins® Realtor-CDPE-SFR-FACS

 

To Sell your Home www.VegasShortSaleHomes.com 702-307-4070 ext 107

 

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To Buy a Las Vegas Home www.WadkinsHomeTeam.com 702-307-4070 ext 106

 

How do I qualify for a mortgage modification? Las Vegas, Henderson

Friday, December 18th, 2009

How do I qualify for a mortgage modification? Las Vegas, Henderson

The first call you make should be to your lender, have the information above ready to discuss with them and call your customer service line to ask them what options you have available. If the person you speak with does not understand what you are asking, you can ask to be referred to one of the following departments (different lenders have different names for these departments):

  • Loss Mitigation
  • Mortgage Modification
  • HAMP
  • H.O.P.E.

Prior to contacting your mortgage lender you can quickly complete an eligibility test at www.MakingHomeAffordable.gov. This test will let you know if you are eligible for a modification through the government-sponsored Home Affordability and Stability Program (HASP). For a list of mortgage lenders and servicers, visit www.HopeNow.com.

What if I don’t qualify for a mortgage modification, can’t afford my home, and owe more than it’s worth?

You are not alone and foreclosure is not the only option. If your mortgage lender or servicer will not work with you to reduce your payment, you may want to consider a short sale. Agents like me, with the Certified Distressed Property Expert® Designation, F.A.C.S., SFR-Short Sale Foreclosure Resource have undergone extensive training in how to process and negotiate short sales. A short sale allows you to sell your home for less than what you owe and avoid foreclosure. Call me and I will let you know if you qualify 702-307-4070 ext 107. or visit my website www.VegasShortSaleHomes.com

 

Steve Wadkins® ReMax Associates Henderson Nevada

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The Truth About Mortgage Modifications, Las Vegas, Henderson

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

 

The Truth About Mortgage Modifications, Las Vegas, Henderson

 

More than 1 in 8 homeowners are upside-down on the mortgage and don’t know what to do. The search for a solution can be filled with misinformation and fraud, and often adds more frustration to this difficult situation. If you or someone you know is among the many homeowners who owe more money on their home than it’s worth, know that there are OPTIONS available. You need the facts. Being educated in today’s shifting market is the most important safeguard you can take in preventing lost opportunities and avoiding scams. Your first step as a Henderson homeowner in trouble is understanding all your OPTIONS, including a mortgage modification.

 

Should you qualify, a…read more http://www.vegasshortsalehomes.com/823497/2009/12/10/The-Truth-About-Mortgage-Modifications-Las-Vegas-Henderson.aspx

 

Assistance from HUD-approved housing counselors is FREE. Go to my website www.VegasShortSaleHomes.com and get the right people to HELP you in your Las Vegas Loan Modification or call me and I will HELP you to discover your Options that you have 702-307-4070 ext 107.

 

Have a Merry Christmas & God Bless!

 

Steve Wadkins® Realtor-Advanced CDPE-F.A.C.S., S.F.R.

 

To Buy A Las Vegas or Henderson Home www.WadkinsHomeTeam.com 702-307-4070 ext 106 Gerri Wadkins

 

To Sell your Las Vegas or Henderson Home www.VegasShortSaleHomes.com 702-307-4070 ext 107 Steve Wadkins

Take Control of Your Mortgage Situation – Get Back on Track Las Vegas, Henderson!

Monday, November 30th, 2009

 

Take Control of Your Mortgage Situation – Get Back on Track!

 

Hello Everyone…

Millions of homeowners are upside-down on their mortgages and don’t know what to do. But having all the right information is the surest way to find the right answers. 702-307-4070 ext 107 http://bit.ly/6JAKwt

 

There is so much misinformation—and even fraud—that as a community service to protect the people around me, I have set up this site with accurate information on foreclosure-avoidance options:

 

http://bit.ly/6JAKwt

 

While on the site, download a FREE report—prepared just for you—on the truth about mortgage modifications. They can be ideal for distressed homeowners, but it is important to safeguard yourself from being taken advantage of. This is why I became a Certified Distressed Property Expert, equipped to guide homeowners through all of the options available.

 

Get the facts regarding your situation and always have a contingency plan.  Together we can formulate a strategy and work toward a real solution.

 

Steve Wadkins-Advanced CDPE, FACS Foreclosure Alternative Certified Specialist

702-307-4070 x 107

 

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To Sell A Las Vegas Home www.VegasShortSaleHomes.com

 

LAS VEGAS FORECLOSURE RESCUE AND MORTGAGE MODIFICATION FRAUD – LAWYER ALERT ISSUED, HENDERSON

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

FORECLOSURE RESCUE AND MORTGAGE MODIFICATION FRAUD – LAWYER ALERT ISSUED

Hello Everyone!

Florida Bar made public the misleading representations that have recently plagued the Loan modification industry nationwide. 702-307-4070 ext 107 The Loan modification industry has sprung up faster than weeds – mostly through mortgage brokers that have seen their ability to make loans dry up in this recession and are applying net office sales techniques to the Loan modification boom.  The problem is that many states have enacted new laws to put them out of business.

The situation is important enough that an “Ethics Alert”was issued by the Florida Bar on March 15th. Check the Nevada Law of Ethics Alert too.

Typically, the mortgage modification firm – which often uses “net offices” just like in the good old lending days and are just where a sales person hangs out - will recruit an attorney to “watch” the modification process and they will advertise that there is an attorney “representing” the client’s (the borrower’s) interests.  Typical language is, “our attorney will represent you in the modification process and review all of your documents,” or similar.  In reality the attorney does almost nothing or works under the direct control of a non-lawyer. Be very careful. There are too many frauds out there that states they can do Las Vegas Short Sales, Las Vegas Loan Modifications, Las Vegas Foreclosure Preventions and so on.

Florida passed a Mortgage Rescue Consultant law in 2008and many firms have sought to stay in the lucrative Florida mortgage assistance market by trying to skirt that law by using a letter opinion by the Florida Attorney General that exempts attorneys from work they are doing in defending a client in a foreclosure. Check back and I will have the Nevada Law. The result however is a plethora of ethics violations for the lawyers that get involved and Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL) violations for the mortgage loan modification firm if they give any type of legal service.

Usually these firms charge between $1,500 to $3,500 up to $10,000 for Loan modification services – the price is often set by the salesman (who is not an attorney).  The salesman gets a commission (anything above the set fee) and the attorney gets a nominal review fee – or something up to 10% of the total fee if special services are provided, such as using the attorney trust account to deposit the fee for clearance and then disbursement to the loan modification firm.  The Bar also issued an instructive articleon how one Loan modification firm was prosecuted, saying, “Florida lawyers are being approached about working with nonlawyers offering foreclosure-related services to consumers, but the proposals present a veritable minefield of ethical problems.”

If you have any questions or concerns in this area of Las Vegas or Henderson, write me and I will guide you to a Licensed Professional that will “Try” to do your Loan Modification for FREE if you do not qualify I will Short Sale your House as another OPTION to Foreclosure.

www.WadkinsHomeTeam.com To look for a Home, Bank owned Home, Information about what your Las Vegas Home, Henderson Home Summerlin Home is worth.

www.VegasShortSaleHomes.com To gain FREE information about what is a Short Sale

Steve & Gerri Wadkins, Realtors-Advanced CDPE 702-307-4070 ext 107

Be sure to contact your own attorney for Nevada state laws, and always consult your own attorney on any legal decision you need to make.  This article is for information purposes and is not specific advice to any one reader.

 

 

Las Vegas Loan Modification Companies Try To Get Compliant

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

 

Las Vegas Loan Modification Companies Try To Get Compliant

Find Out How New Nevada Law Affects Consumers

 

 

LAS VEGASNevada homeowners flooded the state’s D

 

ivision of Mortgage Lending Web site Tuesday to see if their loan modification company was still in business.

 

Call us or email us for more information of what Las Vegas Loan Modification Companies are in compliant: 702-307-4070 Steve Wadkins or Steve@WadkinsHomeTeam.com

 

State officials announced 30 companies would be shut down after they failed to obtain a minimum $75,000 surety bond required by law to protect consumers.

 

A list of companies still eligible to provide loan modifications was posted on the agency’s website and will continue to be updated. Companies who are no longer authorized to conduct loan modifications are given 10 days to close down and cancel contracts with homeowners.

 

For more answers to your questions and OPTIONS if you or someone is upside down on your Las Vegas mortgage, please click www.VegasShortSaleHomes.com

 

To Buy A Las Vegas Home or Las Vegas Investment Home click on www.WadkinsHomeTeam.com

 

Steve & Gerri Wadkins® Realtors-Advanced CDPE

702-307-4070

ReMax Associates

ReMax Las Vegas

 

Loan Modifications-Are The Banks Helping You? Las Vegas, Nevada

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Loan Modifications-Are the Banks Helping You? Las Vegas, Nevada

 

Hi Everyone! The first OPTION that I always tell people when they call me about wanting to Short Sale their Home in Las Vegas is “Have you called your Bank/Lender to see if they will do a “Work Out Program Loan Modification”? The ones that have not, I tell them to first call their Bank and get that process going and if they turn you down or the payments do not workout for you, then I will qualify them for the Short Sale through a questionnaire. Majority of these Banks/Lenders tell you not to pay your payments then call them back when YOU are in Default. WRONG!

 

This is why our economy is struggling to recover is these Banks and Lender Institutions are guiding the public, Distressed Home Owners to Default.

 

Read this article that came out from USA TODAY Continuing Homeowner Crisis and Loan Modification trends:  http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2009-10-08-mortgage-relief_N.htm

 

Write back to me on our Blog and give me your Loan Modification problems that you had to deal with and what type of help you have received if it was a successful one to help everyone in this crisis.

 

If your Home is upside down and you have exhausted all options, or you know someone in that situation, call me and I will Short Sale your House. www.VegasShortSaleHomes.com 702-307-4070

 

If you want to utilize the Home Buyer Tax Credit to buy a Home, Call Gerri! www.WadkinsHomeTeam.com 702-307-4070

 

Until our next Blog be Blessed! Don’t forget to write us back on our Blogs!

 

In Our Opinion Only,

 

Steve & Gerri Wadkins® Realtors-Advanced CDPE

702-307-4070

 

Home Affordable Modification Program

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Home Affordable Modification Program

Hi Everyone! This issue touches me in so many different ways. I receive several telephone calls daily from Las Vegas Distressed Homeowners that have tried every possible way to keep their Las Vegas Home or Henderson Home. When the telephone rings, I always wonder if it is another Nevada Distressed Homeowner that is going to be crying telling me that a Loan Modification Company has taken them and now they want me to Short Sale their Home before it goes into Foreclosure. As most of you know, Nevada has been hit the hardest in Foreclosures and will continue for sometime. Call Me for Las Vegas Foreclosure Avoidance “You Have Options” 702-307-4070

You as a Las Vegas Homeowner that is upside down in their Home, have OPTIONS: one of your OPTIONS to saving your Home is to pay it if you can, try a Loan Modification with your bank, Short Sale with me or Foreclose on it. Obviously, the F-word is not an OPTION in my opinion when you have the other OPTIONS that are available to you. Especially the F-Word is FOREVER!

In Las Vegas Nevada, Henderson, Summerlin, North Las Vegas, Mountains Edge, Seven Hills, Anthem, Lake Las Vegas and surrounding communities, our Las Vegas Real Estate Team and Henderson Real Estate Team of Full Time Licensed Realtors are specialized and Certified in: Buyers-Looking for a Las Vegas Home to Buy, Investors-Looking for a Las Vegas Investment, Rentals-Looking for a Las Vegas Rental, Las Vegas Luxury Homes-Looking for that special Home for a great price, Las Vegas Selling Homes, Las Vegas Short Sale Homes, Las Vegas Bank owned Homes, REO Properties, Las Vegas Commercial Properties. Or you just need advise on Short Selling your home or Foreclosure Avoidance, we are here. We are your Las Vegas Real Estate One Stop.

For those of you that need help with your Mortgage and want to keep your Las Vegas Home, I have copied & pasted the HAMP Home Affordable Modification Program for your review. You can get a Loan Modification. You need a financial hardship, 31% debt to ratio, You DON’T have to be behind on your payments to qualify under this program. It is Government backed and has been around since March 2009. Remember friends, its always changing! This Loan Modification Program will not reduce your principal, but will take your interest rate down to 2%.

If you don’t qualify or someone you know needs Help Short Selling their Home in Las Vegas and surrounding areas or any Help in Buying, Selling Las Vegas, call Gerri Wadkins & Steve Wadkins with RreMax Associates and we will be happy to Help you.

Below are the HAMP Guidelines:

 

On March 4, 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced details of the Home Affordable Modification program (HAMP) as part of the Making Home Affordable program. HAMP is a loan modification program designed to reduce delinquent and at-risk borrowers’ monthly mortgage payments. Freddie Mac is pleased to play a leadership role by implementing this program.

Guide Bulletin Updates

Our September 18, 2009, Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide (Guide) Bulletin 2009-23 [PDF] provides Servicers with HAMP requirement updates, including the mandatory use of Workout Prospector® when evaluating borrowers for a modification under HAMP, new reporting requirements, and providing guidance on mortgages with second liens.

Previous Guide Bulletins provide requirements for Servicers to implement, underwrite, and service eligible Freddie Mac-owned mortgages under the program. We urge Servicers to thoroughly review the Guide Bulletins, which are available below, and Guide Chapter C65 for complete requirements.

HAMP is effective immediately for mortgages originated on or prior to January 1, 2009, and will expire on December 31, 2012. Servicers should no longer solicit borrowers for a modification under the Streamlined Modification Program, and should instead begin to solicit eligible borrowers who are 31 or more days delinquent for a modification under HAMP. Servicers should not solicit borrowers for this program who are less than 31 days delinquent.

Mortgage and Borrower Eligibility Requirements

The following mortgages are eligible for a modification under the Home Affordable Modification program (HAMP):

  • First-lien mortgages owned, guaranteed, or securitized by Freddie Mac that are single-family 1- to 4- unit primary residences, including condos, cooperatives, Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide (Guide) – eligible manufactured homes, and our negotiated conforming jumbo mortgages.
  • FHA, VA, and RHS guaranteed mortgages are eligible, subject to the relevant agency guidelines.
  • Mortgages for properties that are abandoned, vacant, or condemned are not eligible.
  • Mortgages may be previously modified, but can only be modified once under HAMP.

Borrowers may be eligible for this program if they meet the following requirements:

  • Borrowers who are 31 days or more delinquent and borrowers who are either current or less than 31 days delinquent and in imminent default.
  • A borrower may be considered in imminent default if the borrower is current or less than 31 days delinquent on their mortgage payments, and have a hardship that is stated in the Hardship Affidavit document. In addition, the borrower must have a Debt Coverage Ratio that is less than 1.20 and Cash Reserves that are less than three times their current monthly PITIA payment.
  • Borrowers who may be in foreclosure, in pending litigation involving the mortgage, or who are in active bankruptcy.
  • Borrowers currently performing under another workout arrangement will be considered for a Home Affordable Modification if they request it.
  • Borrowers must currently have a monthly housing expense-to-income ratio greater than 31 percent of their verified gross monthly income.

Other mortgage and borrower eligibility requirements apply as noted in our Guide Chapter C65.

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DISTRESSED HOMEOWNERS DEFRAUDED BY ATTORNEYS-EXPOSED IN CALIFORNIA

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

DISTRESSED HOMEOWNERS DEFRAUDED BY

ATTORNEYS – EXPOSED IN CALIFORNIA

Attorneys can be great and how they can be bad in the field of helping Las Vegas distressed homeowners.  Now the California Bar Association has published the preliminary results of an investigation into those attorneys supposedly offering services to help distressed homeowners in one of the hardest hit states.Attorneys, especially Las Vegas real estate attorney, but also Las Vegas divorce and family law, Las Vegas criminal and commercial law practitioners have had a few dismal years.  Finding a new niche appeared easy to some attorneys, especially with promises of “loan modification experts” telling them to just refer the business their way for a referral fee.

The problem is several folds.  For one, attorneys to get this business were paying illegal referral fees to non-attorneys.  Another is that they were practicing law in states without a license in that state.  And yet another is that they were fronting for Las Vegas loan modification firms but not really doing any work for their “client”.  And the “client” actually was the Las Vegas loan modification firm and not the Las Vegas distressed homeowner.

We have heard so many fraudulent scams from our clients that when they go to these Firms Attorney or Non-Attorney they take their money upfront and then the client waits for a couple months then are told not to pay their mortgage and delay it and then are told that they cant do anything and to go see a Las Vegas Realtor that Specializes in Las Vegas Short Sales. After paying monthly fees to Attorneys and Loan Modification companies they then call me and we Short Sale their House. If anyone states they can guarantee, RUN! It is not a guarantee. 

Distressed Las Vegas homeowners should seek help — BUT: 1.  Be realistic in expectations; 2. If it is too good to be true, it isn’t.  3.  If you are being pushed to sign up, DON’T!   4.  Get recommendations and actually check them out!

Steve Wadkins, Realtor®-Advanced CDPE www.WadkinsHomeTeam.com

.  This article is for information purposes and is not specific advice to any one reader

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