mortgage loan modification

My application was denied because they said I have to make more than 1.5% of my existing loan balance. My loan balance is over $377,000 and I do not make more than $5,665/month. Is this correct? If I made that much I would afford my loan payments…. This is the Obama Making Home Affordable modification program. So frustrating…was trying to avoid foreclosure.

You’ll need to call your lender and VERIFY why your loan mod was denied. If they give you a difficult time, hang up and call again! Sounds odd, but it usually works! Depending on who your lender is, the customer service number you call is re-directed to different parts of the country. The 1.5% doesn’t make any sense so you’ll need to get straight answers from them. Lenders, depending on who the underlying investor is, will typically try to modify your loan down to where your debt-to-income ratio (DTI) is around 31% (divide your principal, interest, taxes and insurance (PITI) by your gross income and this will give you your DTI). Re-submit your loan modification package, if necessary and be persistent! Often times the person answering the phone won’t be updated or even educated on their employers’ loan mod programs.

Unless your lender is giving you the run around or they’re a small servicing company, there’s very little reason why they wouldn’t modify your loan if you have a legitimate financial hardship - which I’m assuming is the case since they accepted your mod application to begin with. If you were trying to do it yourself, consider calling HUD’s free loan modification service at (800) 569-4287 and see if they can help you. Once you submit (or re-submit) your loan mod package, call them to confirm receipt of your documents. Once they have your file and it’s under review, the foreclosure process will be postponed, pending approval or denial of the mod. Follow up frequently and again be persistent!

Dont get scammed! Go to http://velocitylossmitigation.com
We have been helping homeowners modify their homes since 2006 and have completed over 1500 modifications. Go to our webite to get get your questions answered and complete an application oday.

The lender will modify your loan by changing your interest rate, balance of loan, delinquent fees owed, and term of loan. Contact us now to for a Free Consultation. Beware of other companies that are not licensed and are collecting an advanced fee. These companies claim they will, for a fee (which seems to be around $3000), get you through the red tape of lender/servicer mortgage modification programs and get you to a rate or payment that you can afford. Some are quite reputable, while others are total scams

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Dont get scammed! Go to http://velocitylossmitigation.com
We have been helping homeowners modify their homes since 2006 and have completed over 1500 modifications. Go to our webite to get get your questions answered and complete an application oday.

The lender will modify your loan by changing your interest rate, balance of loan, delinquent fees owed, and term of loan. Contact us now to for a Free Consultation. Beware of other companies that are not licensed and are collecting an advanced fee. These companies claim they will, for a fee (which seems to be around $3000), get you through the red tape of lender/servicer mortgage modification programs and get you to a rate or payment that you can afford. Some are quite reputable, while others are total scams

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My application was denied because they said I have to make more than 1.5% of my existing loan balance. My loan balance is over $377,000 and I do not make more than $5,665/month. Is this correct? If I made that much I would afford my loan payments…. This is the Obama Making Home Affordable modification program. So frustrating…was trying to avoid foreclosure.

You’ll need to call your lender and VERIFY why your loan mod was denied. If they give you a difficult time, hang up and call again! Sounds odd, but it usually works! Depending on who your lender is, the customer service number you call is re-directed to different parts of the country. The 1.5% doesn’t make any sense so you’ll need to get straight answers from them. Lenders, depending on who the underlying investor is, will typically try to modify your loan down to where your debt-to-income ratio (DTI) is around 31% (divide your principal, interest, taxes and insurance (PITI) by your gross income and this will give you your DTI). Re-submit your loan modification package, if necessary and be persistent! Often times the person answering the phone won’t be updated or even educated on their employers’ loan mod programs.

Unless your lender is giving you the run around or they’re a small servicing company, there’s very little reason why they wouldn’t modify your loan if you have a legitimate financial hardship - which I’m assuming is the case since they accepted your mod application to begin with. If you were trying to do it yourself, consider calling HUD’s free loan modification service at (800) 569-4287 and see if they can help you. Once you submit (or re-submit) your loan mod package, call them to confirm receipt of your documents. Once they have your file and it’s under review, the foreclosure process will be postponed, pending approval or denial of the mod. Follow up frequently and again be persistent!

Dont get scammed! Go to http://velocitylossmitigation.com
We have been helping homeowners modify their homes since 2006 and have completed over 1500 modifications. Go to our webite to get get your questions answered and complete an application oday.

The lender will modify your loan by changing your interest rate, balance of loan, delinquent fees owed, and term of loan. Contact us now to for a Free Consultation. Beware of other companies that are not licensed and are collecting an advanced fee. These companies claim they will, for a fee (which seems to be around $3000), get you through the red tape of lender/servicer mortgage modification programs and get you to a rate or payment that you can afford. Some are quite reputable, while others are total scams

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Dont get scammed! Go to http://velocitylossmitigation.com
We have been helping homeowners modify their homes since 2006 and have completed over 1500 modifications. Go to our webite to get get your questions answered and complete an application oday.

The lender will modify your loan by changing your interest rate, balance of loan, delinquent fees owed, and term of loan. Contact us now to for a Free Consultation. Beware of other companies that are not licensed and are collecting an advanced fee. These companies claim they will, for a fee (which seems to be around $3000), get you through the red tape of lender/servicer mortgage modification programs and get you to a rate or payment that you can afford. Some are quite reputable, while others are total scams

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Tax on 1099C, Cancellation of Debt Income; Short Sale, Loan Modification & Foreclosure. Exception; Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act, Bankruptcy & Insolvency. Go To http://RealEstateMarketingThisWeek.com

Part 4 (Excerpt)

1099 C is for Cancellation of Debt Income Only, not for Interest Rate and Payment Reduction

So for people who find themselves in a very difficult situation considering these options whether it’s a loan modification or a short sale, whatever they need to do to relieve themselves of this particular burden of a mortgage, that for whatever reason they’re no longer able to maintain, they are not always considering the tax ramifications associated with taking a specific course of action, like this example the short sale option.

Right there is actually two pieces of tax component here, you have the forgiveness of debt income that we talked about, they still have the fact that you sold your house and you have to see if there was a gain on that. Over and above the cost basis of the home.

We talked about the 1099Cs a few moments ago, did you say that the lender sends a copy of the 1099C to the IRS? Absolutely.

Now I’m the guy for a few minutes ago who bailed on $400,000 and sold it for $300,000 am I going to get a copy of the 1099C if I haven’t given my lender my new address. Well that could be a problem, they will send it to the last address they have on record for you. And as a homeowner it’s my problem.

The IRS will get a copy, so they will look for it on your return, if you forget to put it on then you’re going to get a friendly notice from the IRS.

If somebody is going to do a short sale, its a fairly civil transaction and when I say civil I mean going for a short sale is horrible for them and their family, but it beats the alternative which is foreclosure, and I think the real problem is when there’s a foreclosure and the guy just walks away and moves off to El Centro California, he’s the one who’s really getting hurt.

So in the event that somebody takes a course of action, and I know that Velocity financial and Michael Barnes, youre not necessarily advocates for that short sale approach. It’s not normally the best course of action, we’ve been talking about loan modifications and it would help me when I talk to clients, or people who call from radio broadcasts who asked questions about loan modification process as part of a financial strategy, help me with some of the tax ramifications. Let’s say that I have a loan and I know the best thing for me is a loan modification, am I going to be faced with a 1099? A tax bill at the end of a loan modification?

Yes, the first of the two tax implications will apply which will be the debt forgiveness part.

I didn’t mean to interrupt you Mike, well I said there are several different types of loan modifications, I believe are you asking about when the loan modification is where they actually do forgive some of the debt?

Thats a point, I know there’s been a lot of discussion on the use of the TARP funds especially from the federal government regarding these banks that qualify for some of these funds, they have to do principle reductions for their mortgages. So let’s say there isn’t a principal reduction involved, from that aspect, its not a taxable event that could take place, since I’m not reducing my principal, I’m simply getting a reduction in my term or my rate.

That’s right, the only time that taxes would come into play is when the principal gets reduced because thats forgiveness of debt.

So let’s take that one step further, whatever mortgage interest I’m able to deduct on my taxes may be impacted if it’s a lower percentage, right because youll be paying less interest, but there’ll be no surprise 1099 coming your way if its just an interest modification.

One of the things that I like to make thing clear is that were trying to do the best for you the homeowner so you can stay in your home. The situation I’m talking about, the $400,000, the lender is more likely than not is not going to forgive $100,000, however the same lender is more than willing to reduce your interest rate so that your payment would be the same if they have done the principal reduction, because it’s not a permanent loss for the bank. If there is someone out there who’s telling you that they can have your mortgage reduced by tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars, it’s not going to happen and I doubt it’s going to happen anytime soon.

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