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Part 3 (Excerpt)

Short Sale Objections, Advantages and Hardship Letters; Keeping the Home Owner in the Home helps fight vandalism

One of the things I mentioned at the beginning of the last segment is this special allotment of funds that we received from one of our mortgage banks that we currently have available, a 30 year fixed, no pre payment penalty this is the real deal just what youre looking for a 4.875% interest rate with an APR of 4.95% and that is available we do have people at the office right now if you have questions in regard to that they can answer them for you. You would call 480-Velocity

Michael, I have some clients who are buyers that would love that rate. Is that available to buyers as well? Actually, yes its that rate is for a no cash out refinance, no higher than 80% LTV, they have to have perfect credit to hit this number but even in some cases, well with this particular loan there are some closing costs, but one of the things we have available too is a no cost option and that interest rate is for people who are doing the purchase or refinancing and that rate is only 5.5%. The interest rate is 5.5% and the APR is 5.5% so that is for purchase money as well.

Were back talking here with Jeri League and Kalyn Roberts, were talking about the objections to doing short sales, there is another one you wanted to point out Jeri?

Yes, one more objection that people often have when we talk to them about their particular situation is that people feel that they have to be behind on their mortgage payment in order for a bank to consider a short sale and that is not true, the bank analyses everyones entire situation, we have people write a hardship letter, they want to see your financials and there is an entire situation not just being behind on your mortgage payment.

Your hardship may be that youre being relocated by your employer and you simply cant sell your home for what you owe on it due to todays market conditions. The banks will definitely look at that.
People think that the key is that you have to be late but that is not the case. That is really good to know, so we talked about the objections or the pitfalls rather what about the advantages to doing a short sale?

The biggest advantages to doing a short sale are: that its less impactful on your credit typically than a foreclosure and one of the most exciting benefits is that we can often extend the foreclosure and keep you in your house longer. In Arizona banks have a right to start a foreclosure as soon as youre over 30 days late on one mortgage payment. In todays current economic situation most banks are not starting that process for three to six months, but again that is most banks. They can start after one month.

Yes, but once they start the foreclosure process its a 90 day process in Arizona. So you will get a notice that says basically you have 90 days to come current with the note or to move and they are taking your house and selling it in 90 days. Now once we start the short sale process many times we can extend that foreclosure date.

I have personally done one that we had the home owner in for almost a year from when they stopped making their mortgage payments. Its not uncommon to be two or three months past the original foreclosure date that they gave you which of course gives people a lot longer time to decide what they are going to do, especially if its a family, they are not in such a rush to move, they can keep their kids in the same school district, there are so many reasons that that is a good advantage.

So Kalyn the truth is that homes that are occupied generally are better off and easier to sell than vacant homes right? So long as people are in the house and taking care of the house, if the house looks lived in but not trashed. What youre saying is lenders would just as soon leave them in the house then to have it vacant and potentially vandalized.

Definitely, the lenders prefer to have somebody living in there because they are taking care of the home, like you just said when the homes are vacant there is a high risk of them being vandalized, unfortunately and the worse the economic situation in the country gets the higher the vandalism rate on homes goes. In fact we were talking with a realtor in our office who typically takes listings in some of the lower income areas in town and they are going to stop putting signs on vacant listing because they are getting vandalized so much.

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Part 3 (Excerpt)

Short Sale Objections, Advantages and Hardship Letters; Keeping the Home Owner in the Home helps fight vandalism

One of the things I mentioned at the beginning of the last segment is this special allotment of funds that we received from one of our mortgage banks that we currently have available, a 30 year fixed, no pre payment penalty this is the real deal just what youre looking for a 4.875% interest rate with an APR of 4.95% and that is available we do have people at the office right now if you have questions in regard to that they can answer them for you. You would call 480-Velocity

Michael, I have some clients who are buyers that would love that rate. Is that available to buyers as well? Actually, yes its that rate is for a no cash out refinance, no higher than 80% LTV, they have to have perfect credit to hit this number but even in some cases, well with this particular loan there are some closing costs, but one of the things we have available too is a no cost option and that interest rate is for people who are doing the purchase or refinancing and that rate is only 5.5%. The interest rate is 5.5% and the APR is 5.5% so that is for purchase money as well.

Were back talking here with Jeri League and Kalyn Roberts, were talking about the objections to doing short sales, there is another one you wanted to point out Jeri?

Yes, one more objection that people often have when we talk to them about their particular situation is that people feel that they have to be behind on their mortgage payment in order for a bank to consider a short sale and that is not true, the bank analyses everyones entire situation, we have people write a hardship letter, they want to see your financials and there is an entire situation not just being behind on your mortgage payment.

Your hardship may be that youre being relocated by your employer and you simply cant sell your home for what you owe on it due to todays market conditions. The banks will definitely look at that.
People think that the key is that you have to be late but that is not the case. That is really good to know, so we talked about the objections or the pitfalls rather what about the advantages to doing a short sale?

The biggest advantages to doing a short sale are: that its less impactful on your credit typically than a foreclosure and one of the most exciting benefits is that we can often extend the foreclosure and keep you in your house longer. In Arizona banks have a right to start a foreclosure as soon as youre over 30 days late on one mortgage payment. In todays current economic situation most banks are not starting that process for three to six months, but again that is most banks. They can start after one month.

Yes, but once they start the foreclosure process its a 90 day process in Arizona. So you will get a notice that says basically you have 90 days to come current with the note or to move and they are taking your house and selling it in 90 days. Now once we start the short sale process many times we can extend that foreclosure date.

I have personally done one that we had the home owner in for almost a year from when they stopped making their mortgage payments. Its not uncommon to be two or three months past the original foreclosure date that they gave you which of course gives people a lot longer time to decide what they are going to do, especially if its a family, they are not in such a rush to move, they can keep their kids in the same school district, there are so many reasons that that is a good advantage.

So Kalyn the truth is that homes that are occupied generally are better off and easier to sell than vacant homes right? So long as people are in the house and taking care of the house, if the house looks lived in but not trashed. What youre saying is lenders would just as soon leave them in the house then to have it vacant and potentially vandalized.

Definitely, the lenders prefer to have somebody living in there because they are taking care of the home, like you just said when the homes are vacant there is a high risk of them being vandalized, unfortunately and the worse the economic situation in the country gets the higher the vandalism rate on homes goes. In fact we were talking with a realtor in our office who typically takes listings in some of the lower income areas in town and they are going to stop putting signs on vacant listing because they are getting vandalized so much.

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Part 7 (Excerpt)

Watch out for scams; huge fees for Loan Modifications

Important to point out folks that Velocity Financial is a full service mortgage broker, the majority of our business is writing and originating and underwriting mortgage loans for homeowners, people to buy real-estate, people to refinance their homes, people can still refinance out there, loan modifications are not for everybody, in fact they are for a small segment of the market.

Im the founder of the Modification Hotline and we put that in place to help people right now, people dont need a salesman when it comes to these loan modifications, I heard a story today from a home owner that I just couldnt believe, this person that is trying to get loan modification told them that she had to pay them $1500 a month for 4 months and by the time she was finished paying them they guaranteed her some kind of ridiculous, I just dont understand why it is like that.

Right now we need to help you get through the situation, we are here for you, we are going to do everything in our power with our national network of attorneys, who are expert negotiators, so it is important that you call.

I just want to make the distinction so it is clear for everybody, Velocity Financial is a full service mortgage firm, all things mortgage related and the concept of todays show being loan modification program is a division of something that you kind of created and had some foresight about all of these issues that are effecting not only mortgage holders but the economy at large, thus this topic and wanting to help these people.

Thats correct, a year and a half ago I was approached by someone that I respected very much in the industry, asked me to get involved with the loss mitigation process and I essentially declined the offer, once I reanalyzed that a number of people calling us needed loan modifications. We did do some research and found the debt advisory alliance with a gentlemen that I have know for years, and he had already put together the national network of attorneys, so we are working with these people who have done thousands of these loan modifications.

We are the affiliate, we are doing the discovery and due diligence, they are taking care of the expert negotiations, thats not my job, that is not what we are good at, what we are good at is putting together a case that will get modified the best for you, and your kids and everything else to keep all of you in place…

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Part 7 (Excerpt)

Watch out for scams; huge fees for Loan Modifications

Important to point out folks that Velocity Financial is a full service mortgage broker, the majority of our business is writing and originating and underwriting mortgage loans for homeowners, people to buy real-estate, people to refinance their homes, people can still refinance out there, loan modifications are not for everybody, in fact they are for a small segment of the market.

Im the founder of the Modification Hotline and we put that in place to help people right now, people dont need a salesman when it comes to these loan modifications, I heard a story today from a home owner that I just couldnt believe, this person that is trying to get loan modification told them that she had to pay them $1500 a month for 4 months and by the time she was finished paying them they guaranteed her some kind of ridiculous, I just dont understand why it is like that.

Right now we need to help you get through the situation, we are here for you, we are going to do everything in our power with our national network of attorneys, who are expert negotiators, so it is important that you call.

I just want to make the distinction so it is clear for everybody, Velocity Financial is a full service mortgage firm, all things mortgage related and the concept of todays show being loan modification program is a division of something that you kind of created and had some foresight about all of these issues that are effecting not only mortgage holders but the economy at large, thus this topic and wanting to help these people.

Thats correct, a year and a half ago I was approached by someone that I respected very much in the industry, asked me to get involved with the loss mitigation process and I essentially declined the offer, once I reanalyzed that a number of people calling us needed loan modifications. We did do some research and found the debt advisory alliance with a gentlemen that I have know for years, and he had already put together the national network of attorneys, so we are working with these people who have done thousands of these loan modifications.

We are the affiliate, we are doing the discovery and due diligence, they are taking care of the expert negotiations, thats not my job, that is not what we are good at, what we are good at is putting together a case that will get modified the best for you, and your kids and everything else to keep all of you in place…

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Part 7 (Excerpt)

Watch out for scams; huge fees for Loan Modifications

Important to point out folks that Velocity Financial is a full service mortgage broker, the majority of our business is writing and originating and underwriting mortgage loans for homeowners, people to buy real-estate, people to refinance their homes, people can still refinance out there, loan modifications are not for everybody, in fact they are for a small segment of the market.

Im the founder of the Modification Hotline and we put that in place to help people right now, people dont need a salesman when it comes to these loan modifications, I heard a story today from a home owner that I just couldnt believe, this person that is trying to get loan modification told them that she had to pay them $1500 a month for 4 months and by the time she was finished paying them they guaranteed her some kind of ridiculous, I just dont understand why it is like that.

Right now we need to help you get through the situation, we are here for you, we are going to do everything in our power with our national network of attorneys, who are expert negotiators, so it is important that you call.

I just want to make the distinction so it is clear for everybody, Velocity Financial is a full service mortgage firm, all things mortgage related and the concept of todays show being loan modification program is a division of something that you kind of created and had some foresight about all of these issues that are effecting not only mortgage holders but the economy at large, thus this topic and wanting to help these people.

Thats correct, a year and a half ago I was approached by someone that I respected very much in the industry, asked me to get involved with the loss mitigation process and I essentially declined the offer, once I reanalyzed that a number of people calling us needed loan modifications. We did do some research and found the debt advisory alliance with a gentlemen that I have know for years, and he had already put together the national network of attorneys, so we are working with these people who have done thousands of these loan modifications.

We are the affiliate, we are doing the discovery and due diligence, they are taking care of the expert negotiations, thats not my job, that is not what we are good at, what we are good at is putting together a case that will get modified the best for you, and your kids and everything else to keep all of you in place…

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Part 6 (Excerpt)

Using Retirement Funds to pay your Mortgage is just a bad idea Get a Loan Modification

So it doesnt matter if it is a $100,000 property or a $500,000 property the cost to the lender is $50,000 on the average nationally.

So the idea of the upside down scenario, you may see banks more willing to entertain a broader audience of loan modifications or a broader request of loan modifications based on the fact that they know that now, what we are calling toxic ets, not only exist on their balance sheets, but they want to do something to avoid the additional cost of foreclosing on the property, to avoid the additional impact on our economy nationally with all these foreclosures mounting. So a loan modification that may not be the best or most ideal candidate today, dont throw the option completely out of the window.

And to that point I would never tell a home owner to stop making their payments just to get a better loan modification, because as of today, this may not be the case two weeks or two months from now, but as of today, your servicer is not going to entertain a loan modification unless youre late in most cases. Heres the situation, though at first you may get mad at that and they get mad at me for it, but the reality of it is we have a real problem now with lots of people who are two, three, four months behind on their mortgages, this loan modification we are jumping in, we are getting attorneys involved and getting right in front of the et managers or the attorneys for the servicers to get these foreclosure proceedings stopped.

Im absolutely certain that in the foreseeable future they are going to allow people that are not late yet to do these loan modifications, hold on, I said I would never tell a home owner to not make their mortgage payment to get a loan modification, the other thing I would never tell a homeowner to do, never ever, is to take money out of your 401K to pay their mortgage payment because you cant go forward.

There are other stops in place, if you dont make your mortgage payment because of hard times you are going to get a loan modification. I talked to a guy the other day that had a 23 year, huge 6 figure income, he lost his job, big huge firm here in the valley, he is probably listening to the show right now, this guy drained his entire 401K, I mean a huge one, just to make his mortgage payments.

And the average 401K participant, investor, does not understand the ramification of what that is, just because your company plan allows you to take a loan against your 401K doesnt mean it is the right thing to do. There are ramifications beyond our time and the scope of this discussion regarding that decision. Loan modification first, if you are taking money from a 401K to make a house payment you are not only inefficient in creating the velocity of money but you are costing yourself in penalties, taxes, and that is certainly something we can be forthright about talking with anyone who wants to call.

And in this case the poor guy used up every dime of his 401K because his lender told him NO, NO, NO, three separate times because he was not late, well he wasnt going to allow that to happen. Unfortunately knowing what he knows now he would have looked at it differently.

Loan Modification is not for someone who has no income at all, the investor, the servicer, the bank that holds your mortgagee is not willing to do a loan modification because you dont have the means to pay. Even if it is a modified loan, you still cant make the payment. Right in some cases where you have significant cash reserves, but I have not seen one of those done.

That wouldnt be the ideal candidate, describe a little bit about who should be doing this loan modification and I know we are getting close to a break but people need to know that this option exists. They are hearing all these different concepts in the news and they are hearing in the media the spin about Hank Paulson and what the treasury is doing, and hearing about this bailout package and what that represents, and now they are hearing that the money is not going to be used to buy back bad loans, and mortgages, bad ists. So what does that do to the underlying holder of that mortgage? The owner of that house?

It is pretty scary for the majority of them, the loan modification lenders are getting very aggressive when being approached with a lawsuit or being addressed by an attorney, receiving a subpoena in regard to a specific loan case. They are paying attention to that and those are the people who are going to be getting the best options at this time…

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Part 6 (Excerpt)

Using Retirement Funds to pay your Mortgage is just a bad idea Get a Loan Modification

So it doesnt matter if it is a $100,000 property or a $500,000 property the cost to the lender is $50,000 on the average nationally.

So the idea of the upside down scenario, you may see banks more willing to entertain a broader audience of loan modifications or a broader request of loan modifications based on the fact that they know that now, what we are calling toxic ets, not only exist on their balance sheets, but they want to do something to avoid the additional cost of foreclosing on the property, to avoid the additional impact on our economy nationally with all these foreclosures mounting. So a loan modification that may not be the best or most ideal candidate today, dont throw the option completely out of the window.

And to that point I would never tell a home owner to stop making their payments just to get a better loan modification, because as of today, this may not be the case two weeks or two months from now, but as of today, your servicer is not going to entertain a loan modification unless youre late in most cases. Heres the situation, though at first you may get mad at that and they get mad at me for it, but the reality of it is we have a real problem now with lots of people who are two, three, four months behind on their mortgages, this loan modification we are jumping in, we are getting attorneys involved and getting right in front of the et managers or the attorneys for the servicers to get these foreclosure proceedings stopped.

Im absolutely certain that in the foreseeable future they are going to allow people that are not late yet to do these loan modifications, hold on, I said I would never tell a home owner to not make their mortgage payment to get a loan modification, the other thing I would never tell a homeowner to do, never ever, is to take money out of your 401K to pay their mortgage payment because you cant go forward.

There are other stops in place, if you dont make your mortgage payment because of hard times you are going to get a loan modification. I talked to a guy the other day that had a 23 year, huge 6 figure income, he lost his job, big huge firm here in the valley, he is probably listening to the show right now, this guy drained his entire 401K, I mean a huge one, just to make his mortgage payments.

And the average 401K participant, investor, does not understand the ramification of what that is, just because your company plan allows you to take a loan against your 401K doesnt mean it is the right thing to do. There are ramifications beyond our time and the scope of this discussion regarding that decision. Loan modification first, if you are taking money from a 401K to make a house payment you are not only inefficient in creating the velocity of money but you are costing yourself in penalties, taxes, and that is certainly something we can be forthright about talking with anyone who wants to call.

And in this case the poor guy used up every dime of his 401K because his lender told him NO, NO, NO, three separate times because he was not late, well he wasnt going to allow that to happen. Unfortunately knowing what he knows now he would have looked at it differently.

Loan Modification is not for someone who has no income at all, the investor, the servicer, the bank that holds your mortgagee is not willing to do a loan modification because you dont have the means to pay. Even if it is a modified loan, you still cant make the payment. Right in some cases where you have significant cash reserves, but I have not seen one of those done.

That wouldnt be the ideal candidate, describe a little bit about who should be doing this loan modification and I know we are getting close to a break but people need to know that this option exists. They are hearing all these different concepts in the news and they are hearing in the media the spin about Hank Paulson and what the treasury is doing, and hearing about this bailout package and what that represents, and now they are hearing that the money is not going to be used to buy back bad loans, and mortgages, bad ists. So what does that do to the underlying holder of that mortgage? The owner of that house?

It is pretty scary for the majority of them, the loan modification lenders are getting very aggressive when being approached with a lawsuit or being addressed by an attorney, receiving a subpoena in regard to a specific loan case. They are paying attention to that and those are the people who are going to be getting the best options at this time…

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Part 6 (Excerpt)

Using Retirement Funds to pay your Mortgage is just a bad idea Get a Loan Modification

So it doesnt matter if it is a $100,000 property or a $500,000 property the cost to the lender is $50,000 on the average nationally.

So the idea of the upside down scenario, you may see banks more willing to entertain a broader audience of loan modifications or a broader request of loan modifications based on the fact that they know that now, what we are calling toxic ets, not only exist on their balance sheets, but they want to do something to avoid the additional cost of foreclosing on the property, to avoid the additional impact on our economy nationally with all these foreclosures mounting. So a loan modification that may not be the best or most ideal candidate today, dont throw the option completely out of the window.

And to that point I would never tell a home owner to stop making their payments just to get a better loan modification, because as of today, this may not be the case two weeks or two months from now, but as of today, your servicer is not going to entertain a loan modification unless youre late in most cases. Heres the situation, though at first you may get mad at that and they get mad at me for it, but the reality of it is we have a real problem now with lots of people who are two, three, four months behind on their mortgages, this loan modification we are jumping in, we are getting attorneys involved and getting right in front of the et managers or the attorneys for the servicers to get these foreclosure proceedings stopped.

Im absolutely certain that in the foreseeable future they are going to allow people that are not late yet to do these loan modifications, hold on, I said I would never tell a home owner to not make their mortgage payment to get a loan modification, the other thing I would never tell a homeowner to do, never ever, is to take money out of your 401K to pay their mortgage payment because you cant go forward.

There are other stops in place, if you dont make your mortgage payment because of hard times you are going to get a loan modification. I talked to a guy the other day that had a 23 year, huge 6 figure income, he lost his job, big huge firm here in the valley, he is probably listening to the show right now, this guy drained his entire 401K, I mean a huge one, just to make his mortgage payments.

And the average 401K participant, investor, does not understand the ramification of what that is, just because your company plan allows you to take a loan against your 401K doesnt mean it is the right thing to do. There are ramifications beyond our time and the scope of this discussion regarding that decision. Loan modification first, if you are taking money from a 401K to make a house payment you are not only inefficient in creating the velocity of money but you are costing yourself in penalties, taxes, and that is certainly something we can be forthright about talking with anyone who wants to call.

And in this case the poor guy used up every dime of his 401K because his lender told him NO, NO, NO, three separate times because he was not late, well he wasnt going to allow that to happen. Unfortunately knowing what he knows now he would have looked at it differently.

Loan Modification is not for someone who has no income at all, the investor, the servicer, the bank that holds your mortgagee is not willing to do a loan modification because you dont have the means to pay. Even if it is a modified loan, you still cant make the payment. Right in some cases where you have significant cash reserves, but I have not seen one of those done.

That wouldnt be the ideal candidate, describe a little bit about who should be doing this loan modification and I know we are getting close to a break but people need to know that this option exists. They are hearing all these different concepts in the news and they are hearing in the media the spin about Hank Paulson and what the treasury is doing, and hearing about this bailout package and what that represents, and now they are hearing that the money is not going to be used to buy back bad loans, and mortgages, bad ists. So what does that do to the underlying holder of that mortgage? The owner of that house?

It is pretty scary for the majority of them, the loan modification lenders are getting very aggressive when being approached with a lawsuit or being addressed by an attorney, receiving a subpoena in regard to a specific loan case. They are paying attention to that and those are the people who are going to be getting the best options at this time…

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So you’ve got your home offer accepted, now what? We’ll explain the loan process, step by step, so you know what to expect when your mortgage is being processed while you await a closing date.

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Part 2 (Excerpt)

Congressman Barney Frank is calling for the restructure of the loan servicing business

Well, in the past we have talked a lot about loan modifications and since the first time we started talking about loan modifications the whole space has changed. Everything about loan modifications since our very first broadcast talking about it, we don’t talk about it every week, but we do talk about it allot. It has changed so much, when we started anybody who had a significant hardship, or financial hardship, or had one of these toxic mortgages, that had adjusted, would be able to qualify for a loan modification. These things have changed all of a sudden, and not all across the board. Brett you made a comment earlier that people are concerned that once these servicers do these modifications they could be subject to lawsuits right?

Yes, it is amazing how quickly things have changed over the course of the last couple of weeks, it seems this information, and this news is changing almost hour by hour, at this point one of the things that came out regarding this mortgage modification program is from Barney Frank, “Congress should act to restructure the servicing of home mortgages.” So the idea is that they are catching on to something that you and your team at velocity financial were ahead of the curve on in terms of loan modifications.

Knowing that those rules for a hardship and why you are entitled to one have definitely changed. Now it is more of a situation where in order to stop foreclosure, to stop the problems ociated with this mass foreclosure market place, modifications are being talked about amongst the banks now. Barney Franks comments today, he stressed how these voluntary inducements to get these private entities to protect homeowners from the government has fallen short, and Hank Paulson has fallen short of putting their weight behind this concept.

Although I personally believe that is the next evolution of this. Loan Modifications are a critical step for people who are feeling this economic crisis, and for people who want to stay in a home, for people who need this type of istance. The idea is you have a short window of opportunity here before something else significant changes where you may no longer be entitled to.

You heard Citigroup, you know this we talked about it, Citigroup came out and made the announcement that they were going to suspend their pursuit of foreclosures in certain areas of the country that have the highest unemployment rate, that was the caveat. We will see how big the scope of that gets, but the whole idea is for you as a mortgage owner, as a home owner with a mortgage, if you need to establish a modification to an existing loan, in order to have more favorable terms in interest, a more favorable monthly payment, a way to keep that home, you have to look at this option.

Yes, and I appreciate you saying that one of the things that Citigroup announced they were going to be doing was giving people teaser rates of 1%. Look anybody with a brain can realize that that is ludicrous. What got us into this situation in the first place was huge banks, just like that one, giving people toxic mortgages, with fake interest rates, and pick your own payment, do whatever the heck you want to. It is exactly what they are trying to do again.

Essentially what they are talking about is giving people a short window of a very low interest rate, but they are going to be back in the same situation in the future. That’s why the loan modifications that we do, that we hire on your behalf, the national network of attorney’s that we use. We go for the throat, we are not looking to get you a 1% interest rate for the next 12 months. We are looking to get you a lifelong, or for the term of the loan if possible, the very lowest interest rate available, and fix it or extend the term so you can actually sustain that payment well beyond the short term.

One thing I want to point out before we have to go to a break, if you know of anyone out there, that has a GMAC mortgage, whether it be a GMAC first mortgage or second mortgage, you have got to tune in to the second segment you are not going to believe this scam that’s out there, going against people with these loans…

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