Save Your Home From Foreclosure With Loan Modification
Thursday, March 26th, 2009There is a terrible crisis in the housing sector, affecting thirty million homeowners in the United States. Increasingly home-owners are losing their jobs, or having their salaries reduced. More and more people are falling behind with their mortgage, credit cards or car payments. These people are in danger of defaulting on their mortgage and seeing their home go into foreclosure. But there is an answer, and many homeowners aren’t even aware of this solution: it’s called loan modification – sometimes known as loan mod.
Loan modification does not entail re-financing, so there is no credit check needed. It is not debt consolidation. It is renegotiating the existing loan to achieve a reduction in interest rate and, under special circumstances, a lowering in loan principal. Without extending the term of the loan. A new, lower, payment is achieved which is affordable to the home owner. Loan modification is a real win-win situation for all parties concerned. To the homeowner it often means the difference between losing and keeping their home. As for the banks, it could signify the difference between remaining solvent or being forced to fold.
There’s no reason why homeowners can not arrange their own mortgage loan modification by contacting the loss mitigation dept at their bank. But it is not advisable – the banks will usually only offer an insignificant lowering in interest, or no reduction at all. It’s much better to engage the services of an established loan modification firm, which has its own team of dedicated loan modification lawyers, who do nothing but talk with banks all day long and have the knowledge and experience to accomplish a significant lowering. Doing it alone is akin to representing yourself at a court of law – seriously unadvisable. A reliable mortgage loan modification company can negotiate a 30% to 50% reduction in interest rate without increasing the length of the mortgage loan. It is well worth the fee they charge to accomplish this.