Greedy lenders are any person that takes benefit of homeowners & their mortgages. Greedy lenders charge extreme fees for their services or force home owner to purchase products or services they do not need. You can save yourself problem & annoyance along with thousands of dollars by avoiding becoming a sufferer of greedy lending practices. Here are instructions to help you blemish a greedy mortgage lender. Extreme mortgage origination fees & points are one sign of greedy lending practices. Loan lenders try & disguise these fees by funding them as part of the mortgage. No closing cost loans are one instance of this type of scam. Finance lenders divert you with the fact that youll not have to give fees at closing; the lender then marks up the interest rate or staple fees onto the mortgage principal. Honest finance lenders usually charge around 1% of the mortgage amount for these fees. Greedy lenders charge as much as 6% or more. This is the reason youve to overpay thousands of ponds over the term of your loan. Excessive down payment penalties are one more sign of greedy lending practices. Most loans today dont charge down payment penalties. Many bad credit loans lenders add prepayment fine to their loan agreements. A number of of these penalties are the equivalent of 6 months of interest payments. These fees make significant income for sheltered mortgage lenders when the home owner refinances the loans. Loan broker bribes are another fee you must be wary of. Loan lenders will frequently give the points you give to the broker as a bonus. Some dealers refer loans at a higher interest rate in order to get a commission from the lender. These unnecessary fees as bribe to an untruthful mortgage broker can cost you hundreds of ponds. Any lender that necessitates a homeowner to buy services or insurance products for example life insurance to qualify for sanction is guilty of greedy lending practices. This comprises requiring the homeowner to agree to quarrel arbitration. Agreeing to adjudication limits homeowners lawful rights & favors the lender. Avoid any loan lender that necessitate dispute adjudication or necessitate you to buy additional services to be eligible. By humanizing yourself to identify pressure sales tactics & predatory lending practices you can defend yourself from becoming a sufferer. There are truthful mortgage lenders; though, you need to study the warning signs to avoid taking the mortgage help from dishonest lenders.
Duration : 0:6:48
Read the rest of this entry »
Technorati Tags: Avoid, Becoming, greedy, lenders, mortgage, of, victim
http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com – Real Estate Marketing – Foreclosure Rescue Scams and How to Protect Yourself – With Michael J Barnes, Brett Fallon and Dan Havey of Real Estate Marketing This Week
Part 7 – The Foreclosure Sharks, you have written this book or I think it’s called a white paper. Free report whatever you want to call it its packed full of really good and interesting information. It’s called The Foreclosure Sharks – A look at the rampant theft of Americans homes through foreclosure rescue scams.
And folks I have to tell you I think we’re going to spend the next week, the majority of the show talking about what the heck is going on out there. And what you need to do to protect yourself in case you should happen to be against this problem. You really need to know what your options are. This free report is available online at http://mortgageanswerman.com. You have got to get this. The information is really good, and one of the taglines that you have here Dan is, Theres blood in the water and the sharks can smell it.
Right. What made me actually write this was a number of years ago I had been working with people in foreclosure for years, and it was just a way to let them know what was going to be going on once the foreclosure was filed against them. Now in many cases, these people were already experiencing what was going on.
And again I’ve recently had a friend or two go through foreclosure and I had them collect all of the paperwork that they got from all of the foreclosure guys out there trying to help them sell their house or do whatever it was, and I was surprised at how thin the stack was. This one gal in particular, lives in Scottsdale in a very nice house and she didnt have more than maybe 6 letters. In the past, a couple of years ago, especially at the peak of the market, when somebody was in a foreclosure situation they would have seriously a stack 6 inches thick.
People would be knocking on their door 24 hours a day, calling them, dropping off stuff. There were cars driving by all the time and it really got to be a nuisance. And frankly I think it hurt the home owner and their standing in a neighborhood, with all of that traffic and of course everybody knew that they were having problems. So that is why the report was originally written and why I wanted to talk about it today because of all the foreclosures going on in the market right now.
Now let me ask you a question, you are saying that two years ago if I were in a foreclosure my mail box would be chock-full of marketing products. Youre telling me now that there is virtually none?
Well I think that part of it is that back then there was financing available to be able to come in and refinance the people. I certainly myself did dozens of loans, at least, to bail people out of bankruptcies and foreclosures, and also people had equity back then. Property values were continuing to go up. I forget how many scams I pointed out here in the book, I think there are 18 or something in here, and most of them are essentially people attempting to get your house away from you, either refinance it, sell it for you, take a lease option, there are all kinds of different scams involved, but I think the reason we see so much less of it today is because there is so much less equity. So if you are upside down by $300,000 in your house, i dont care how good of a scammer you are, you are not going to make a lot of money off that.
But there are a couple of scams going on right now that I want to talk about because there are a couple of things that happened just recently that harkened me back to when I first got started in real estate here in Arizona in the late 1980s. I was selling repos for Fannie Mae, Countrywide, and the Resolution Trust Corporation, which was in charge of selling off all of the real estate owned for the 1,800 or so Savings and Loans that failed in the late 1980s early 1990s. There were so many scams going on then, I mean we had just tons of vacant houses we were selling, and one of the big scams that I thought was actually being perpetrated on a friend of mine the other day is a little something known as rent skimming… http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com/foreclosure-rescue-scams-and-how-to-protect-yourself/
Duration : 0:6:36
Read the rest of this entry »
Technorati Tags: agreement, Attorney, Avoid, bailout, Bank, bank foreclosure, Bankruptcy, dan havey, debt, Expert, forbearance, forbearance agreement, Foreclosure, fraud, government, government foreclosure, Home, insolvent, lender, loan, Loan-Modification, Loss-Mitigation, meltdown, modification, mortgage, mortgage foreclosure, real estate foreclosure, real estate marketing, Real-Estate, rescission, rescue, Scam, Short-Sale, stop, stop foreclosure, tax, taxes, this week
http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com – New Fannie Mae Streamline Loan Modifications may do more harm than good
Part 5 –
We do realize that there are situations that people are in that they want to be out of and we want to move past. We have back in the studio, the author of Real Estates Future also the author of The Foreclosure Sharks white paper, a fantastic manual that he has put together that you can get for free. Dan Havey thank you very much for coming back. You can get a copy of the white paper The Foreclosure Sharks at http://mortgageanswerman.com.
So Dan I know that you have brought the just recently released new Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac guidelines, with their streamlined modification process. This is the kind of thing where the consumer can go and do-it themselves, right?
Yes, except that we would certainly advise against that. These are the guidelines that Fannie Mae came out with; they are effective as of a couple weeks ago now. But with Christmas and the holidays I dont think a whole lot of people have figured out what this is all about yet. So as we said in the last segment the guidelines that they have come out with here, and what I have is a print out but I dont know that this is the whole thing because I have heard some commentary on this that actually says that it is much worse then I am about to relay to everyone on the air.
I am just going to pick out a couple points about this and then I will let Michael laugh about them because some of these things are just crazy in the fact that it doesnt really help the home owner and I also dont think it is going to move us past the conditions we have to get people some really good loan modifications, the kind of loan modifications that we are talking about where you actually employ an attorney to help you with your loan modification.
The reality of it is we need to get through this mess we dont need to stave it off, push it out further and in my opinion that is what this does. That is exactly what is going on here, there was an article I was reading by Fitch, which is one of the major bond rating firms and that is exactly what they said. They said that the alt-A arms are all coming back to roost now, I think the default rate was over 14% on all alt-A arms, being at least 90 days past due. And the comment in the article was something like, well we havent really seen a lot of losses from it yet and then it said in a caveat at the end, and we think its because they are not really foreclosing on any of these guys yet, so that is why they havent seen any losses. Well if you keep pushing it off into the future eventually you are going to have to see some of these losses.
We have the same thing here with Fannie Mae, which I think it is just another band-aid; it is not going to really solve the problem. First what they have here, and this one is pretty benign, that once they give you the new mortgage payment you have a three month trial period. If you make the payments during that trial period they let you keep the modification. So that one is not so bad.
The next one says that the qualified borrower cant be in litigation, bankruptcy, or have an existing work out plan, and you have to be at least 3 months behind or in foreclosure in order to be eligible for this streamline.
Ok I get to comment right? SO basically what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac just told everyone, according to this that I am reading right here, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac just told you to be 90 days late on your mortgage. That is exactly right, they said that the only way they were going to be able to help you was to be 90 days late on your mortgage.
So I have been, over the past several months, heck Dan you helped us put together the package, you are the cofounder of the modification hotline and I am on the radio every week when we do a little blip about load mods from time to time, saying dont trust anybody who tells you to be late on your mortgage. First of all no loan professional, no mortgage professional, no loan modification specialist will tell you to be late on your mortgage, however, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac just said you need to be at least 90 days late on your mortgage if you want them to help you.
Duration : 0:6:53
Read the rest of this entry »
Technorati Tags: Attorney, Avoid, bailout, Bank, Bankruptcy, Estate, Expert, federal, financing, Foreclosure, fraud, hardship, Home, home mortgage modification, Home-Loan-Modification, Insolvency, law, laws, lender, letter, loan, Loan-Modification, loss, Mitigation, modification, mortgage, Mortgage-Loan-Modification, Mortgage-Modification, Negotiate, negotiation, package, prevention, Process, program, Real, requirements, Sale, Scam, Servicing, Short, tax
* ANOTHER SHORT SALE SUCCESS STORY! *
SHORT SALE PREVENTED FORECLOSURE.
THIS HOME WAS ORIGINALLY LISTED AT $199,900, BUT THE BANK ACCEPTED $165,00 ON THIS HOME !!
If you would like more information to sell your Wisconsin home with our *free* professionally produced internet video please
CALL KIM BURTON WITH RESOURCE ONE AT 920-819-2637
Duration : 0:3:15
Read the rest of this entry »
Technorati Tags: (920)-819-2637, and, at, Avoid, CALL, CONCEPT, DESIGN, Foreclosure, free, fully, get, Home, KIM, LEVEL, multi, NARRATED, Prevent, PRODUCED, PROFESSIONALLY, Sale, sell, Short, story, Success, to, TOUR, video, Your
http://www.miamiattorneygroup.com or call
(888) 445-2851.
Are you in foreclosure or facing a possible foreclosure proceeding against your home? If so, are you looking for ways to stop foreclosure? If this is you, then you may want to keep reading this article.
We fight foreclosure cases. As attorneys concentrating on this area, we know how to defend foreclosure. Some delay and stop foreclosure, and we will help you to win and free the property of the mortgage by using foreclosure defenses, The Saenz Law Firm defends Florida homeowners rights to stay in their houses when facing foreclosure by banks and mortgage companies. We serve clients throughout the state.
We defend home foreclosures with the aim of winning and keeping you in your home.
News
Why Lenders Cannot Find Mortgage Notes
It seems like the mortgage note would be a basic piece of paperwork a mortgage lender would have readily available. However, with the way mortgages (primarily subprime mortgages) have been sold, re-sold, and re-sold again over the past 5 years the paperwork hasn’t always kept up with the sales transactions. If this is the case with your mortgage company and you ask them to produce your original mortgage note and they cannot, then they may not legally be able to proceed in a foreclosure against you until they can locate the note. If this is the case you may have some time to work something out to keep your home.
Visit http://www.miamiattorneygroup.com or call
(888) 445-2851.
Duration : 0:3:31
Read the rest of this entry »
Technorati Tags: Attorney, audit, Avoid, defense, Foreclosure, help, lawyer, lawyers, loan, Miami, mortgage, Sale, Short, solutions, stopping
http://shortsalehotline.com Short Sale Experts Negotiate Your Real Estate Bailout – Mortgage Foreclosure Assistance Plan – Free Prevention Alternative to Foreclosure Fraud and Scams. http://Short-SaleHotline.com will Help you Survive the Mortgage Meltdown Crisis. Avoid Foreclosure and Bankruptcy. Get your Bailout with our Real Estate Short Sale, Mortgage Foreclosure Loss Mitigation Prevention Process.
Sign Up For a FREE Consultation With Our Approved Foreclosure Prevention Specialists – Go To http://Short-SaleHotline.com and Complete Our Easy Form – It Takes 2 Minutes and Can Help Save Your Home.
http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com
Duration : 0:11:0
Read the rest of this entry »
Technorati Tags: alternative, assistance, Attorney, Avoid, bailout, Bankruptcy, Crisis, Estate, Expert, Foreclosure, fraud, help, Home, info, information, loan, loss, meltdown, Mess, Mitigation, Mod, modification, mortgage, News, prevention, Process, Real, Sale, Scam, Service, Short, Specialist, survive
http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com/foreclosure/foreclosure-rates-on-forbearance-agreements-done-with-banks-reaches-58/ – Foreclosure rates on Forbearance Agreements done with banks reaches 58% –
Part 3 – In studio with us today on this fine New years eve is Dan Havey, the co founder of the modification hotline as well as the author of The Foreclosure Sharks a great white paper he put together. He is also the author of Real Estates Future and this segment we are talking about loan modifications and some specific information.
You also have a great story to tell about this to. Well unfortunately I have too many stories about people who have had to go through foreclosures, bankruptcies, loan modifications. The one story I want to talk about real quick is a friend of mine who unbeknownst to me went out and did a loan modification on her own and not to get into a whole bunch of technical details on it she ended up getting a pretty decent interest rate because they actually cut her mortgage payment in half and she was pretty happy about that.
She owed a little bit more than the house was worth, she wasnt terribly upside down, but by the time they got done with her she certainly was going to be because the modification, and actually I should not call it a modification, I should call it a forbearance agreement, what they did to her was to say, OK we will cut your interest rate in half, we will cut your monthly payment in half, but we will take all of that deferred interest and tack it onto the back end of the loan. So that by the time her interest rate went back to where it had been, it was going to adjust up over the next five years, so that within that five year time period she was actually going to owe $60,000 in back interest on top of the principal balance that she had before she went to go talk to her bank.
What kind of a deal is that? I didnt think it was a very good one and she ended up eventually not taking it and just recently let the house go back to the bank, because she just looked at it and said, Wait a second here, I am already $20,000 upside down, by the time Im done with you guys I will be $80,000 upside down and so great I get a cheaper payment for a while. She moved into a rental property that was even cheaper then what she would have had to pay to stay in the house and from what she tells me the house is nicer.
Some of the unfortunate scenarios that come up that we get to see. Unfortunately we talk to lots of people that have similar situations, trying to do these on their own and it is possible to do a loan modification on your own. We know that, the program is designed for you to do that. The problem is it generally does not work out.
The re-default rate on loan modifications done on your own is significantly higher than loan modifications facilitated by an attorney that is representing you, for a number of reasons. Number one you have to pay an attorney to represent you. The other is that I think you are going to get a better modification based its not just a negotiation between you and the loss mitigation department for the bank. We are talking about using a professional attorney who is a trained negotiator to negotiate on your behalf with another attorney. By the way, theyre not talking to the same loss mitigation people in India that you may be talking too.
Here are some numbers that just came out from John Dugan who is the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and they did a study of the loan modifications that have been done to date. In many cases these were forbearance agreements, not loan modifications. If an individual talks to his bank, generally speaking he will not get the same as result as what an attorney would do, so most of these are really forbearance agreements. And in that case, 36% had defaulted or were 30 days past due after 6 months and 58% were in default after 8 months. Again that is 58% in default after eight months and I saw some numbers the other day and unfortunately I didnt bring them in with me today, that according to some study of the very few modifications that have been done using an attorney, I say very few, but it is still thousands or tens of thousands, but few compared to what is getting done directly with the bank, the number is only like 5% of the ones done with an attorney have re-defaulted and again I dont have the numbers with me so I cant site the source…
Duration : 0:5:47
Read the rest of this entry »
Technorati Tags: agreement, Attorney, Avoid, bailout, Bank, bank foreclosure, Bankruptcy, debt forgiveness, debt relief act, Expert, forbearance, forbearance agreement, Foreclosure, fraud, government, government foreclosure, Home, insolvent, lender, loan, Loan-Modification, Loss-Mitigation, meltdown, modification, mortgage, mortgage foreclosure, mortgage forgiveness, real estate foreclosure, Real-Estate, rescission, rescue, Scam, Short-Sale, stop, stop foreclosure, tax, taxes
Greedy lenders are any person that takes benefit of homeowners & their mortgages. Greedy lenders charge extreme fees for their services or force home owner to purchase products or services they do not need. You can save yourself problem & annoyance along with thousands of dollars by avoiding becoming a sufferer of greedy lending practices. Here are instructions to help you blemish a greedy mortgage lender. Extreme mortgage origination fees & points are one sign of greedy lending practices. Loan lenders try & disguise these fees by funding them as part of the mortgage. No closing cost loans are one instance of this type of scam. Finance lenders divert you with the fact that youll not have to give fees at closing; the lender then marks up the interest rate or staple fees onto the mortgage principal. Honest finance lenders usually charge around 1% of the mortgage amount for these fees. Greedy lenders charge as much as 6% or more. This is the reason youve to overpay thousands of ponds over the term of your loan. Excessive down payment penalties are one more sign of greedy lending practices. Most loans today dont charge down payment penalties. Many bad credit loans lenders add prepayment fine to their loan agreements. A number of of these penalties are the equivalent of 6 months of interest payments. These fees make significant income for sheltered mortgage lenders when the home owner refinances the loans. Loan broker bribes are another fee you must be wary of. Loan lenders will frequently give the points you give to the broker as a bonus. Some dealers refer loans at a higher interest rate in order to get a commission from the lender. These unnecessary fees as bribe to an untruthful mortgage broker can cost you hundreds of ponds. Any lender that necessitates a homeowner to buy services or insurance products for example life insurance to qualify for sanction is guilty of greedy lending practices. This comprises requiring the homeowner to agree to quarrel arbitration. Agreeing to adjudication limits homeowners lawful rights & favors the lender. Avoid any loan lender that necessitate dispute adjudication or necessitate you to buy additional services to be eligible. By humanizing yourself to identify pressure sales tactics & predatory lending practices you can defend yourself from becoming a sufferer. There are truthful mortgage lenders; though, you need to study the warning signs to avoid taking the mortgage help from dishonest lenders.
Duration : 0:3:56
Read the rest of this entry »
Technorati Tags: Avoid, Becoming, greedy, lenders, mortgage, of, victim
http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com/foreclosure/the-pitfall-of-forcing-your-bank-to-rescind-your-loan-for-lending-violations-when-in-foreclosure/ – The pitfall of forcing your bank to rescind your loan for lending violations when in foreclosure –
Part 8 – I have a question on that, it is my understanding and I could be wrong, but they don’t need a copy of the note, they need the original note.
You are correct. Your attorney of course will get a copy, because they are not going to send them the original.
Items that your attorney is going to ask for, and I forget the number, I think its 47 different items that the attorney could ask for. Heres one. I’ve been in the industry for 20 years and I just heard this term a couple months ago, it’s known as an alonge. What the heck is an alonge? Well apparently it’s one of the documents that has to be in the file.
While essentially the whole purpose of this is to catch the bank, the lender having messed up your loan somewhere along the way. Because if it is true that they violated some kind of Federal Law in the past when they gave you the loan or are in violation of the loan now, you can then take them to court. And you can sue them. You can have your loan rescinded. Which basically means it comes off your credit report. This loan never happened. As good as that sounds that may not be the best thing for the home owner.
I want to back up just a little tiny bit, you mentioned the alonge, there’s more to the alonge then it sounds like. The bank needs to have the original alonge, more importantly, the person who signed the alonge has to have been authorized by the licensed entity to sign that alonge. And I know for a fact that several people in this town, in this industry, were signing alonges because they needed it signed before the loans could fund. And they were not qualified to sign.
So let’s go back to this discovery process, when we find the lender has to rescind. And I will admit after being in the real estate and mortgage industry for over 20 years, I would have to say that almost 100% of the loans that are originated, if you look at them hard enough you could find something wrong with them. Something wrong, where there could be a reason for you to rescind this loan.
So let’s say you go to that point and push it and get the bank to rescind your loan. Here’s the problem. The loan is gone, it is no longer on your credit report, but let’s say you have a $200,000 loan you took out two years ago, in that time, you would’ve paid about $35,000 in interest. You get a credit for the 35,000, and let’s say you had attorney fees to fight the bank, let’s say $10,000, I don’t think it would be that high but we are just throwing out numbers here. And $5000 in closing costs when you bought the house, so that total is $50,000. You get a credit for $50,000 off of the $200,000 loan, which means you still owe $150,000 on the house. You have to pay the difference.
You have to pay back to the bank $150,000. So its nice that we filed suit and won but frankly in this market where are you going to get the $150,000 from? I think it would be very difficult to find a bank or lender right now that will lend you $150,000 for your house. Chances are you may be several months behind on your payment and although the lender cant show your payment history because the loan was rescinded more than likely the new bank is going to say they need a mortgage payment history. And you say you have been in the house for two years, but the loan got rescinded and they say you need payment history, you cant produce it.
In this marketplace today you are not going to get that loan done. And so the attorneys know that and that’s why once they get the lenders attention they say to the lender, we dont want to rescinded the loan, we dont want to incur a ton of attorney fees but we will if we need to, if you dont want to play ball with us. What we want to do is to work together to get the best possible loan modification for our clients. So we can keep them in their home, keep their family intact.
The reality of a it is, here what we are doing we are working with a national network of attorneys that care about you and you first.
You can go to http://mortgageanswerman.com where there’s going to be information about everything including, one thing I’ll add really quickly. I have something there that is known as a Decision Matrix. The Decision Matrix will walk you through step by step by step, every single step of the process regarding what you should do with your property, should you do a short sale, should you do loan modification, should you just let the bank foreclose? Is bankruptcy an okay idea for you, or not? What are the tax consequences?… http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com
Duration : 0:6:54
Read the rest of this entry »
Technorati Tags: agreement, Attorney, Avoid, bailout, Bank, bank foreclosure, Bankruptcy, debt forgiveness, debt relief act, Expert, forbearance, forbearance agreement, Foreclosure, fraud, government, government foreclosure, Home, insolvent, lender, loan, Loan-Modification, Loss-Mitigation, meltdown, modification, mortgage, mortgage foreclosure, mortgage forgiveness, real estate foreclosure, Real-Estate, rescission, rescue, Scam, Short-Sale, stop, stop foreclosure, tax, taxes
http://www.firstamericanhomesavers.com
The main goal of this video series is help you negotiate a successful loan modification with your lender, however there is no guarantee your lender will modify your loan.
You could fall into one of the following categories: Short Refinance, Forbearance
Agreement, Repayment plan, Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure, Short Sale and/or Cash for Keys. Please visit our website and download a copy of terms and definitions.
Duration : 0:2:52
Read the rest of this entry »
Technorati Tags: American, Avoid, First, Foreclosure, Home, homesavers, loan, loss, Mitigation, Modifications, mortgage, My, save, stop