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A short sale is often more advantageous for a lender than a foreclosure.

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And in some states, falling behind by no more than 60 days could legally entitle a mortgage lender to initiate foreclosure proceedings.

Non-judicial foreclosures are generally faster and easier for lenders to execute than the judicial process, which involves a court, along with lawsuits and appeals in some cases.

For more than 20 years, I have fought to ensure that dream is kept alive through critical legislation like foreclosure prevention, more property tax relief for New York City homeowners and increased oversight of predatory lenders.

PMI is required by lenders when you make a down payment of less than 20 percent, to protect the lender from losing money if the property ends up in foreclosure.

A foreclosure is a lender's last resort and accepting less than what is owed is much less costly for the lender.

>> >» Rather than go into foreclosure, eligible borrowers can refinance with FHA and lenders can voluntarily write down the outstanding subprime mortgage principal balances.»

Unfortunately, the reality is that the only legitimate way to get an accurately reported foreclosure, deed in lieu, short sale (typically reported as «settled for less than full balance») or other negative notation removed from your credit report is for the lender reporting it to instruct the credit bureau to strike it from your credit report as a «goodwill» gesture; not something that often happens.

Lenders generally take smaller losses on short sales than foreclosures.

Rewriting FHA requirements for future mortgage loans insured by FHA could be an option, but FHA is currently between a rock and a hard place with its current commitment to reimburse lenders for foreclosure losses and the need for addressing problems caused by homes worth less than the mortgage loans financing them.

Lenders impose these because even if they comply with FHA guidelines, if they have a higher than average foreclosure experience for their area, they can lose their approval.

Even many mortgage lenders have come to realize that loan modifications and other relief are often more cost - effective than foreclosure.

FHA lenders must verify that at least one year has passed since the foreclosure, short sale or bankruptcy and that the economic event was directly responsible for the bankruptcy or foreclosure rather than any irresponsible behavior by the borrowers.

In the event the loan balance is greater than the value of the home, the borrower can either arrange to voluntarily turn over ownership of the property to the lender (Deed in lieu of foreclosure), or buy the home at 95 % of the appraised value.

On the one hand, filing for chapter 13 bankruptcy can help you save a home from foreclosure by forcing your lender to take past due mortgage payments in small increments over a 3 - 5 year period rather than forcing you to pay back what you owe in a lump sum right away.

So, even though the lender is accepting less than it's owed, the lender may be receiving more than it would after considering the costs of going through a full foreclosure.

Falling prices also resulted in homes worth less than the mortgage loan, providing the lender with a financial incentive to enter foreclosure.

On the other hand, if the loan is less than 80 % of the value of the property, the lender will rest assured that the value of the property will be able to cover the mortgage amount if there is need for foreclosure.

I'd also add that working with your lender or servicer to find a solution is a far better approach, than ignoring the problem and letting the foreclosure run its course.

Once the homeowner is behind on payments usually more than 90 days, the lender will begin the foreclosure process.

While a short sale, which is where the lender settles for less than the amount due on the mortgage, is considered a better closure for the seller (vs. foreclosure or bankruptcy), it's still a red flag to new lenders because of how it shows up on your credit report.

Regardless of your state's deficiency laws, if your home will sell at a foreclosure sale for more than what you owe, you will not be obligated to pay anything to your lender after foreclosure.

Mortgage lenders take foreclosure records seriously, and some credit counselors believe a foreclosure on your credit report looks even worse than a bankruptcy.

The lesson to be learned is that if you owe more on your mortgage than your house is worth and the property is in a state that allows lenders to seek deficiency judgments, you may still owe money even after foreclosure.

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Loan servicers are able to have the government offset the cost of modifying loans that are NOT performing, which would provide the investors with continuing income streams, and yet lenders are kicking a lot more folks out of the program than they are helping, and foreclosures continue unabated.

In the case of foreclosure, mortgage lenders can pursue deficiencies in more than 30 states, including Florida, New York and Texas, according to the U.S. Foreclosure Network, an organization of mortgage law firms.

Typically, lenders are also more willing to negotiate a loan modification than to take their chances with a foreclosure on your property.

More than 50 % of foreclosures would be avoided if people contacted their lender.

Has anyone heard of a lender who was willing to negotiating a «paid settlement» or «paid satisfactory» on a credit report in a situation where the borrow was willing to agree to a deed in lieu rather than letting the property to go into foreclosure?

The idea is that the lender would rather keep the borrower than lose them to foreclosure.

Lenders will frequently accept this because it is a less expensive and time consuming process for him than a full foreclosure action.

It should came as no surprise that lenders do not like this situation because the promise to pay contained in the note is gone and the lender has lost the ability to collect a deficiency if the house is sold at a foreclosure auction for less than the amount of the loan.

One set of actions was aimed at encouraging lenders to rework payments and other terms on troubled mortgages or to refinance «underwater» mortgages (loans exceeding the market value of homes) rather than aggressively seek foreclosure.

Government initiatives to stem the country's mounting foreclosures are hampered because banks and other lenders in many cases have more financial incentive to let borrowers lose their homes than to work out settlements, some economists have concluded.

Because the lender began applying the mortgage payments to these fees rather than to principal and interest, the lender declared the loan in default and commenced a foreclosure proceeding.

Mr. Heffernan defeated a class certification in a putative class action against law firms and major mortgage lenders for allegedly wrongful foreclosures, which protected clients from tens of millions of dollars in potential exposure for more than 9,000 foreclosures.

His focus with homeowners facing foreclosure is to give them the hope of a dignified solution to their financial crisis through current lender loan modification, loan refinancing (short or long - term) or a short sale (a lender - approved sale at less than the outstanding loan balance).

The storm of foreclosures nationally may still be raging, but real estate professionals who take the time and develop the expertise to work with REOs could find themselves sailing smoothly through 2008 with more business — and better long - term relationships with clients and lenders — than they had before the REO rampage hit.

7) Lenders would much rather do short sales than foreclosures, because the lender frees up his non-producing money.

More than 2 million subprime mortgage loans that lenders made during the boom years are in foreclosure, putting at risk $ 164 billion in wealth accumulation, the Center for Responsible Lending says in a study.

Lenders are finally discovering that they can process short sales in less time and at significantly less cost than foreclosures.

A Florida short sale allows both you and the lender to be ultimately in a better position because the lender, too, will prefer to recoup only part of the mortgage amount than to absorb a total loss from a foreclosure.

In the event the loan balance is greater than the value of the home, the heirs can either 1) arrange to voluntarily turn over ownership of the property to the lender (Deed in lieu of foreclosure), or 2) buy the home at 95 % of the appraised value.

In the event the loan balance is greater than the value of the home, you or your heirs can either arrange to voluntarily turn over ownership of the property to the lender (Deed in lieu of foreclosure), or buy the home at 95 % of the appraised value.

The program is designed to provide relief to homeowners in danger of foreclosure due to unaffordable or rising monthly payments by giving lenders incentive to refinance homes that may be currently valued to more than 20 % less than the original home valuation.

In the event the loan balance is greater than the value of the home, the borrower can either arrange to voluntarily turn over ownership of the property to the lender (Deed in lieu of foreclosure), or buy the home at 95 % of the appraised value.

What happens when you lose your property in a foreclosure is that your property will be sold and most often it will be sold for less than what you owe your lender.

This may seem long, but it's far better than foreclosure, where lenders tend to expect you to wait seven years.

At least 28 of the properties went into foreclosure, representing a loss to lenders of more than $ 5.5 million, according to court records.