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Freddie Mac Refinance Program

June 14th, 2009

Attention California Homeowners-The Government’s Freddie Mac Relief Refinance Mortgage rules:

The governmenst main objective is to assit borrowers of Freddie Mac guaranteed, insured home loans, to keep their homes affordable and reduce foreclosures by keeping payments affordable. Under Freddie Mac’s Home Affordable Refinance program, known as the Relief Refinance Mortgage, the program may be used to reduce the borrower’s loan interest rate, shorten the loan term repayment period or replace an adjustable-rate mortgage, interest-only mortgage or balloon/reset mortgage with a fixed-rate loan.

How to qualify for the new refinance program, first the borrower must have an existing mortgage that is owned or guaranteed by Freddie Mac. To find out whether Freddie Mac owns or guarantees your loan, call (800) 373-3343, call your loan servicer or search for your loan on Freddie Mac’s Web site at Freddie Mac.org.

You should contact your original lender or loan servicer to apply for this program.

The property may be a vacation/second home if the existing mortgage was originated as a second-home loan or the borrower now occupies the home as a principal residence.

The new Freddie Mac Refinance mortgage can be a 15-, 20- or 30-year, fixed-rate loan or an adjustable-rate mortgage  with an initial term of five, seven or 10 years. The loan must be fully amortizing (i.e., not an interest-only or payment-option loan).

If you have an existing fixed-rate mortgage, than the lender can not refinance with an ” ARM”  Adjustable Rate Mortgage.

The loan, may be a so-called “super-conforming” loan limit within the applicable loan limit for the area.

The property may be an investment property if the existing mortgage was originated as an investment property or the borrower now occupies the home as a principal residence.
 
If the original loan is covered by mortgage insurance, the insurer must agree to transfer the insurance to the new loan.

The new loan cannot be used to make a payment on or pay off a second loan.

Lenders are encouraged to use Freddie Mac’s automated valuation model, or AVM, to estimate the property’s current market value. Borrowers should ask whether a new appraisal will be required.

The borrower may be able to finance transaction costs of up to $2,500.
Borrowers whose monthly payment increases 20 percent or more must provide income and employment documentation and have an acceptable credit score and debt-to-income ratio to demonstrate they can afford the new higher payment.

If your loan does not meet these qualifications and you can not qualify for a typical refinance program,  You may want to consider modifying your home loan with a loan modification San Diego mortgage program.  This will allow you to lower your monthly mortgage payments, lower your current interest rate on your mortgage, or possibly reduce the principal balance of your home loan mortgage.

More information can be obtained at the Freddie Mae web site or at the Home affordable modification webs site.

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San Diego Refinance Program

June 7th, 2009

Obama Refinance Plan and California Homeowners?
 
The federal government’s Home Affordable Refinance program is designed to help homeowners refinance their mortgages even if they owe slightly more than the current value of their homes, up to 105% of home to loan vaue. An example of this would be if your home was valued at $100,000  and your current loan amount was $105.000 then you could finance under this current program.  Most homeowners do not fit this scenarior, and some homeowners fall into a different category in which they may qualify for a loan modification San Diego homeowners program. The new loan refinance program has several layers of rules to follow to qualify for a mortgage refinance program.  First there is a maze of special offers from different lenders.  Which is the best?  Each program has different qualifications, terms, incentives so you need to way each one accordingly.

 

The government refinance program is complicated because the federal government has their set of rules; Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have their own separate sets of rules; and lenders, loan servicers and mortgage insurers generally have their own rules to follow through the refinance maze.  the sad part is that a majority of homeowners do not qualify for this program which was slated to help 5 million homeowners.  With the drastic decline in home values this program will fail many homeowners as the “Hope” for homeowners government plan failed.  If you are in a situation where you can not refinance, yo are having trouble making your monthly payments or you behind.  Then a home loan modification San Diego homeowners may be the ticket for you.  The government is offering incentives to lenders to perform a loan modificatio on your mortgage loan. If your are in this situation take action now and see what your lender can do for you today.

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Mortgage Mess Affects San Diego Loan Modifications

June 3rd, 2009

California Mortgage Mess

The current mortgage mess will lead to more bank failures, more foreclosures and a need for loan modification San Diego homeowners programs to curtail the problems homeowners are facing in this real estate market.

Interesting facts- Mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac(Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation)  which was founded in 1970.  Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association), the 2 government-sponsored enterprises owned or guaranteed $5.3 trillion of mortgages (out of $10.5 trillion nationwide) as of 12/31/08. Freddie Mac lost more money during the 2 years of 2007-08 (a $53 billion loss) than it made during the 36 years from
1971-2006
($42 billion of profits) (source: USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Federal Reserve).
$2 trillion of mortgages were packaged together into bonds and sold to investors, i.e.,
they were securitized (source: Inside Mortgage Finance, Wall Street

And now the tax payers are paying the price.  Homeowners who were sold these toxic loans are paying the price with higher payments, facing default and foreclosure.  Those who have taken action to prevent them selves from going into foreclosure have done so by negotiating a loan modification San Diego program on their mortgage loan. 

If your lender is unwilling to re-negotiate your mortgage loan than you may have to hire a professional to negotiate for you.  If, this is not an option you could consider a “Short Sale” on your home.  A Short Sale will still be negative on your credit but it is not as bad as a foreclosure.  And as a last result you could turn over the keys to the lender and do what is  called a “Deed In Lieu” of foreclosure.  If you go this option you should hire an attorney to protect your legal rights.  If you go the route of a loan modification be prepared before you attemp a loan modification so you can negotiate  a loan modification San Diego program that will make the most sense today and down the road.

What ever you decide to do take action and don’t wait for the problem to go a way, because it will not.

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