Foreclosure Listings Servicers To Take Pay-cut

Like many other professionals, mortgage brokers are not exempt from possible changes in their workplace including pay cuts and lack of raises

. This is what many mortgage brokers are facing in light of the governments attempts to slow down and stop the foreclosures that are rapidly increasing each month due to home owners being unable to pay on their loans. The government is trying to get homes sold that are currently empty and also attempting to encourage various lenders to be willing to negotiate on mortgages with unfavorable terms.

The government is giving incentive to a variety of companies who are willing to work with people to allow the purchase of a home under the overall loan balance. They are awarded a sum of $1,500 for conducting a short sale and an additional $1,000 if the mortgage modification program works and the borrowers do not have late payments in the next thirty six months.

Economic experts seem to think this plan is only good on paper and in thought because the incentives are not enough to change the results of the foreclosures that are impending. An astounding number of homes, 4.6 million to be exact, are three months delayed in their mortgages. They are all facing foreclosure. Banks and other lenders do not want a small sum from the government to help borrowers because they will lose out on money this way. A foreclosure will get them more of their lost money than working with a borrower who may not stay current on payments later on down the road.

The program which was established to help home owners called HAMP or the Home Affordable Modification Program has a goal to reduce the foreclosures by a variety of methods including cutting down the interest rates on current loans, allowing 30 year mortgages to be extended an additional 10 to 40, and placing the overdue amounts into the loan itself all rolled up so borrowers can get current again and remain there. The goals of these changes are to set the mortgage to only equal 31% of the income of the home owner.

The changes sound good but even with them all being implemented some of the individuals who had their loans modified will still face foreclosure in the future and in the next three years close to 7 million foreclosures may happen.

A foreclosure costs the home owner their 90 day balance or 3 months of mortgages but banks also charge extra fees which are outsourced to additional servicers. Sometimes the fees rack up to a decent percentage of the overall loan, up to 5%. This can skyrocket the overall costs and definitely the numbers hit higher than the $1,000 offered by the government to work with the borrowers. Results in the program have already shown that almost half of the people who have been granted modifications to their mortgages, 48% to be exact, had already missed a payment. 24% were already in default of 90 days and facing foreclosure yet again.

by: Robert M.

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