Make Home Affordable: Loan Modification

The Obama administration has created a foreclosure prevention plan rthat is designed around to main mortgage workout solutions that allow Homeowners to stop foreclosure and make home affordable.

These two mortgage workouts are loan modification and mortgage refinance.
Both the loan modification and mortgage refinance agreements and program terms allow homeowners to lower monthly payments if they meet some basic qualifications and their lender is willing to work with them.

This post will be focused on the loan modification side of the Making Home Affordable Program.

Making Home Affordable Loan Modification Program Qualifications:

• The property must be the Homeowners primary residence.
• The homeowner must have a current mortgage payment that is 32% or more of their monthly income.
• The Homeowner must have incurred some sort of unavoidable financial hardship.
• The Homeowner must have a home value of 730,000.00 or less
• The Lender must agree to participate in the Making Home Affordable Loan Modification Plan.

The Make Home Affordable Loan Modification Plan has helped many Homeowners has done far better the it's peers such as the FHA insured plan known as the Hope For Homeowners Mortgage Refinance Plan.

You can learn more about the Making Home Affordable Loan Modification and Mortgage Refinance Programs through the Government Websites @ http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov

Learn how to use this site and read a review of MakeHomeAffordable.Gov

Making Home Affordable: Obtaining a Mortgage Refinance

The Obama Administration has created a mortgage refinance program outlined in the foreclosure prevention plan known as the Making Home Affordable Plan. The making Home Affordable Plan Has a loan modification side as well as the mortgage refinance side mentioned above. This article will focus on the mortgage refinance portion of the Making Home Affordable Plan

Making Home Affordable Mortgage Refinance

What is Mortgage Refinance:

• Mortgage Refinance is the act of replacing a debt or loan that is secured by a home with another secured loan.
• Generally a mortgage refinance is done for one of two reasons: 1) The Homeowner need or wants to obtain capital and chooses to put up the equity of the Home as collateral. This is often done to consolidate credit card bills or to make improvements on the home. 2) The Homeowner wants to save money and existing mortgage rates are lower then the current rates outlined in the mortgage agreement.

Making Home Affordable Mortgage Refinance:

• The Making Home Affordable Mortgage refinance program is for Freddie and Fannie mortgage only.
• The current mortgage must be less then thirty days late.
• The mortgage value or balance of the mortgage must be equal or less then the worth or value of the home.
• The Homeowner must be under the consequences or near future consequences of an unavoidable hardship.
• The lender must agree to the mortgage refinance.
• The new monthly payment target for the Homeowner seeking the mortgage refinance is targeted at about 31% of the Homeowners take home income. This figure can be as high as 38%
• 1-4 unit property

If you are a homeowner who meets these current qualifying aspects of the Making Home Affordable Loan Modification then you may be able to benefit from this foreclosure prevention program.