Monday, October 12, 2009

Waiting for my Loan Modification Approval

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Loan modification is the perfect answer to a lot of people’s prayers for trying to stop foreclosure. But in people still need to go through the loan modification process and actually qualify. It is not a hand out. Just because the government is providing people with billions of dollars from the bailout bill that does not mean everyone is going to be able to qualify for the program. As our own house was on the line and as I just submitted my application, I am very nervous. I have done all that I can though and I know I can do no more. Thus, all I can do is sit and wait and worry.

Last night, I had a dream. I dreamt that I was on a beach. But this is not an ordinary beach. The shore didn’t have sand, just rocks or pebbles perhaps. And there were rows of boulders that divided the beach perfectly. It was all gray, but it did not rain. Beach was overlooked concrete ledges on high rolling hills with curving paths. It was all very very strange and very sickening too. When I think of the ocean, I usually have a different image of picturesque island beauty. There was no nature here. I was jumping or perhaps falling from hill to hill. Then they became large cabinets. I was hanging onto the cabinet handles then slipping and falling and hanging on once again.

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Then I woke up. I am not exactly sure of what that dreamt meant. I hope it was not a bad omen regarding my loan modification application. Perhaps I was just so very tense and so very nervous. But I am praying now to get the reply right away. Waiting for the result of my loan modification application is killing me slowly.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Loan Modification to Stop Foreclosure

Loan modification is one of the best things that have ever happened for us. Due to the state of the economy, banks opened up loan modification as a good way to stop foreclosure. The United States economy is in shambles. Ever since the real estate crash happened, things have been hard for the American family. It is getting harder and harder to keep up with the piling bills especially with the problematic loan mortgage on their homes.

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In the country foreclosure rates are going every month right now in almost all the states across our country. The amount of people who are not able to pay for their monthly mortgage bills is going up at a frightening rate. Foreclosures are a big problem for everyone, and not just for the homeowners losing their homes but also for the banks and lenders themselves. Contrary to what a lot of citizens are led to believe, every foreclosure that a bank is forced to process does not benefit the bank that much at all. The bank will not be able to sell the house at maximum value. They will not be able to get back the sum they gave out for the loan and they will have to spend precious time and manpower to process the whole thing. Doing a loan modification is perhaps the optimal option for the bank as well as the homeowner in order to negotiate a solution that would satisfy both parties completely. The best loan modification sets or deals will be able to help the borrower to keep his or her home from being taking away while the bank will also get the full amount or nearly the full amount of their mortgaged loan.

There are other alternatives to loan modification that could also stop foreclosure are refinancing as well as consolidating. These are parallel solutions to speedily recover from foreclosure problems. But loan modification is one of the most popular solutions because it is the easiest and the most effective.