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Repayment Plan (formal and informal):
This is the simplest way to cure a default on your mortgage. Repayment is
usually available to homeowners who can make their regular payment, along
with an extra payment to catch up on their mortgage. So, if you have
incurred a short term financial hardship and your loan is two or three
months past due, you can consider submitting a request for a payment
plan to your lender for approval. The lender will carefully review
your financial situation before your request is approved. You must be able
to demonstrate an ability to pay in order to be eligible.
Typically the period of a repayment plan is no more than 24 months.
This term varies by lender and you should check with yours so that you can
familiarize yourself with their policies.
If your rate is reasonable and you can afford to make your regular payment
along with a payment that will catch you up on your back payments within
your lenders timeframe, this may be the solution for you.
Loan modification:
The number of ways to modify a loan is limited only by your
creativity along with your lenders appetite for that creativity. Here are
a few tips that will help you in the negotiation process for the loan
modification
• All back payments added to the principal balance of the loan
• Re-amortization of the loan back to 30 years.
• Interest rate reductions to as low as 3%
• Conversions of ARM’s to fixed rate mortgage
• Interest rate rollback to original rate (prior to ARM adjustments)
• Interest only periods (3 – 5 years) designed to lower payments for a
period of time that allows the borrowers to make it over the hump
• Principal reductions to bring the loan to value ratio into line. This is
an actual reduction of the loan balance which in turn lowers your
payments.
• Combining two loans held by the same lender in order to create one
uniform interest rate and payment
• Elimination or extreme reduction in the second mortgage balances.
• Balloon payment at 10 or 15 years to lower today’s payments.
VA loan modification / Refunding:
Refunding is when the VA buys your loan from the lender. Refunding gives
the VA the ability to contemplate foreclosure avoidance options to help
you save your home that your current lender couldn’t or wouldn’t consider.
The VA can refund a loan under 38 U.S.C. 36.4318, in this situation
the arrears are added to the principal and the mortgage term are
re-amortized. The new mortgage is not transferable without prior approval
from the Secretary of Veteran Affairs. On occasion the interest rate is
reduced and an assumption is approved. For more details, call your lender
or the VA.
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