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Would a 2nd mortgage foreclose on a home if there is no equality?

1st mortgage amount is $322,000 and 2nd mortgage $80,000. The same house is selling for $20,000 less than the total amount. Would the 2nd foreclose or just write off as a loss?

NEW YORK – Just one in 20 Americans say they plan to buy a home within the next year, and they’re most likely to be 34 years old or younger and living in the South or West, according to a survey released Wednesday.

Roughly a quarter of potential buyers said the No. 1 reason they would buy now is because prices appear to have bottomed out. That reason topped bargain-priced foreclosures, worries about rising interest rates and a wide selection of homes.

The survey, conducted for Move.com, a real estate listings site, reveals how Americans are responding to a nascent and fragile housing recovery after three years of staggering price declines. The percentage of buyers thinking of jumping into the market was down slightly from a March survey, but up about 1 point from a poll in June.

Home prices rebounded this summer at an annualized pace of almost 7 percent, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index. But with high unemployment and foreclosures clouding the picture, economists debate whether prices will dip again.

Recent housing figures and homebuilder earnings support a stabilizing housing market, and concerns about the expiration of federal homebuyer tax credit are moot after Congress last week extended and expanded the credit.

Buyers who have owned in their current homes for at least five years are eligible for tax credits of up to $6,500, while first-time homebuyers — or anyone who hasn’t owned a home in the last three years — would still get up to $8,000. To qualify, buyers have to sign a purchase agreement by April 30, 2010, and close by June 30.

The survey was conducted before the credit extension.

Those surveyed widely favored federal policies that kept interest rates low and helped troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure over those that helped first-time homebuyers purchase a home. And, overall, 48 percent of those polled didn’t think the government was doing enough to stabilize the housing market, whereas 42 percent thought it was.

Forty-five percent of Americans worry that they or someone they know will face foreclosure in the next year. And almost 30 percent of those with a mortgage have contacted their lender in the past year to reduce their payments.

One of the survey participants, Joe Handley of Harrington, Del., called his lender last December to consolidate a second mortgage and cut his interest rate from 6.75 percent to 5.25 percent.

“We wanted to build up our savings for emergencies,” the 37-year-old said.

His timing was prescient. In July, Handley, who works in the information technology department for the State of Delaware, took a pay cut and the $400 monthly savings from the new loan has helped cushion the blow.

Almost a quarter of Americans who refinanced their mortgages have used the savings for living expenses or paying down debt, the survey found. Less than 9 percent are putting the savings toward investment or retirement.

The telephone poll, which included about two-thirds homeowners and one-third renters, was conducted in October by market research firm GfK. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Chase bank is not one of the biggest lending institutions in America. Like all large organizations, it has undergone a series of changes that are sometimes very confusing. It would appear that Chase has a singular focus, but in actual fact it has many different aspects and works with many banks. Chase mortgage modification works with many organizations and works hard to help its clients avoid foreclosure.

Chase has also changed its name several times. It started as Bank One, then became JP Morgan, then JP Morgan Chase and finally Chase Bank. It is also known WaMu and EMC. With the recent downturn in the economy, job loss, companies closing, and a failure to boost the economy, mortgage companies have more motivation to provide programs that help their borrowers keep their homes.

In the last twenty-four months, Chase Bank has enabled over 300,000 families keep their homes buy providing options to foreclosure through loan modifications. Chase offers six options to consider before foreclosure.

Repayment Plan

A Repayment Plan is good for those who have experienced a short-term problem, slipped a little behind in their payments, but were quick to get back on track. The shortfall is paid back in small monthly instalments, added to the regular monthly payment.

Short Refinance

Again, this is for those who have experienced a mild problem. Their loan is renegotiated at a lower rate than their first loan. This reduced their monthly payment by a small amount and over time saves the borrower money.

Partial Claims – FHA only

This is just for FHA insured loans. Chase bank works with the insurance company to bring the mortgage up to date.

Pre-Foreclosure Sale

This is for borrowers who are facing more serious challenges and the other options would not be helpful. In this case Chase may consider accepted less money that what is owed.

Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure

This is also known as an incomplete foreclosure. The borrower gives the deed to their home to the bank and the balance of the mortgage is forgiven. There is no legal proceeding and the homeowner’s credit rating is undamaged.

Loan Modification

The bank will sometimes modify the loan to allow the homeowner, who must be suffering hardship, to avoid foreclosure.

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The clear intention of Obama’s new stimulus package for homeowners is to prevent foreclosure on their homes. People facing problems when it comes to meeting their mortgage repayments can apply for either a loan modification or mortgage refinancing option in order to avoid foreclosure on their primary home and place of residence.

How the plan works

After refinancing or loan modification the percentage of gross monthly income that the total monthly mortgage repayments can represent is 31% although under certain exceptional circumstances this might be increased to 38%.

The qualifying criteria for mortgage refinancing is different to the qualifying criteria for loan modification but the objective of having affordable mortgage repayments that can be sustained is the same.

For loan modifications this is achieved through various means that may include reducing the interest made on payments, extending the period of the loan or potentially deferring a part of the loan until a later time (balloon payment). In exceptional circumstances there may even be a portion of the loan forgiven, i.e. written off but this is entirely at the discretion of the lender as is the balloon payment. One is called principal forbearance and the other principal forgiveness.

The balloon payment (principal forbearance) can only be applied to loan modifications and not to mortgage refinancing. This part of the loan basically just sits there with no interest or capital repayment being paid. The amount is still owed, but you would not be required to pay it until the rest of the loan is cleared.

Interest rates for the mortgage refinancing are governed by market rates and there are concessions available to help with payments for closing costs or perhaps a title report that can be rolled into the loan for people who do not have the ready cash to hand. These concessions are different depending on whether the loan is under Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae.

You need to assess whether the refinancing option works for you, it is possible that your repayments may not decrease but you may save money over the full period of the loan and you need to assess if taking this option is the correct decision. You can get free advice from a HUD approved housing counselor to help you asses the full financial impact.

The counselor will also be able to advise what other options you have if mortgage refinancing does not work for you e.g. the loan modification route or perhaps looking at the ‘HOPE for homeowners’ program administered by the FHA.

Visit Need Mortgage Refinance to get detailed information of the stimulus package, what it offers and other alternatives.

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WASHINGTON – Can’t pay the mortgage? You still might be able to stay in your home. Government-controlled mortgage company Fannie Mae is going to give borrowers on the verge of foreclosure the option of renting their homes for a year.

The change announced Thursday could give a temporary break to thousands of homeowners, but critics question whether it will only add to the mushrooming losses at the company, which has received billions in taxpayer money.

The new “Deed for Lease” program will allow homeowners to transfer title to Fannie Mae and sign a one-year lease, with potential month-to-month extensions after that. It also helps save money because the lender does not need to complete the often lengthy and time-consuming foreclosure process.

The program helps “eliminate some of the uncertainty of foreclosure, keeps families and tenants in their homes during a transitional period, and helps to stabilize neighborhoods and communities,” Jay Ryan, a Fannie Mae vice president, said in a statement.

It also does less harm to the borrower’s credit record.

“It shows that you put your best effort to work out a solution,” said Gabe del Rio, director of homeownership at Community HousingWorks of San Diego.

However, Mike Himes, director of homeownership services at NeighborWorks Sacramento, said the industry should push harder to modify loans at lower monthly payments. “The preferred option is allowing people to retain ownership,” he said.

Fannie Mae executives said the rental program is designed to help delinquent homeowners who don’t qualify for a loan modification, but still want to stay in their homes.

To qualify, homeowners have to live in the home as the primary residence and prove that they can afford the market rent, which will be established by the management company running the program. Rents are based on current market rates.

The plan is expected to be particularly attractive in places like Phoenix or Orange County, Calif., where homeowners are stuck paying large mortgage bills on properties that are now worth far less than they originally paid. At the same time, rents have been falling in those areas. So by renting the same house, former homeowners could wind up paying far less every month.

In Orange County, for example, the average monthly rent for all apartments was about $1,450 in September, down nearly 8 percent from a year earlier, according to research firm MPF Research. In Phoenix, the average renter paid about $720, also down about 8 percent from last year.

Still, the effort is likely to attract a relatively small number of homeowners.

In the first nine months of the year, Fannie Mae took ownership of nearly 2,000 properties through a process known as a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure. That pales in comparison to the 90,000 foreclosed properties the company repossessed in the period.

Deed-in-lieu works like the new program, allowing homeowners to turn over title to Fannie Mae, but rather than renting, the owners simply walk away.

While Fannie Mae executives say the company’s motives are community-minded, critics say the company is simply gambling that the properties will eventually sell for a higher price. That’s folly, says Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital in Darien, Conn., and a longtime bearish investor.

“Taxpayers are now going to own all these houses that (Fannie Mae) should have unloaded,” he said. “It’s going to cost a fortune.”

The announcement came as Fannie Mae asked for an additional $15 billion in government aid after posting another big loss in the third quarter. The mortgage finance company, seized by federal regulators in September 2008, posted a quarterly loss of $19.8 billion, including $883 million in dividends paid to the Treasury Department.

Pessimists like Schiff say the recent stability in the housing market is just temporary, and argue that there is a huge backlog of foreclosed homes that haven’t gone on the market. Refusing to sell those homes, they say, only prolongs the problem.

But other experts say that Fannie Mae’s new policy could make sense, even if prices don’t rebound quickly. The company will get rental income while avoiding costly foreclosure expenses.

It will also help to safeguard the homes, which are less likely to be vandalized when occupied.

“There are a whole lot of costs you avoid,” said Thomas Lawler, a former Fannie Mae economist. “You don’t necessarily have to believe that home prices a year from now will be higher than today.”

Fannie Mae’s sibling company, Freddie Mac, launched a similar effort in March. That policy, however, requires the foreclosure to be completed and only allows month-to-month leases. Freddie Mac declined to detail how many borrowers have participated.

The two companies purchase loans from banks and sell them to investors. Together, they own or guarantee almost 31 million home loans worth about $5.5 trillion, about half of all U.S. mortgages. They have been badly hurt by the housing bust and have required $111 billion in federal aid since being seized by government regulators 14 months ago.

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To find out whether your home loan is owned by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, try these Web sites:

Fannie Mae http://loanlookup.fanniemae.com/loanlookup/

Freddie Mac: http://www.freddiemac.com/mymortgage

Over the last two years real estate prices have been collapsing at an incredible rate. As many struggle to maintain their credit ratings and work to climb out from underneath the high amounts of debt that they have accumulated as a result of taking second mortgages, home equity loans, sub prime mortgages as well other forms of debt. Now with mortgage rates at some of the lowest levels in history many are wondering if now is the time to go back into real estate. The real estate markets trade in one of four cycles which include: expansion, equilibrium, decline, and absorption. At present the markets are switching from a cycle of decline to one of absorption fueled in part by historically low mortgage rates, favorable FHA financing terms and many long term investors seeking great long term investment opportunities that have presented themselves.

As far as the residential real estate market is concerned, many of the once hot housing markets are down significantly from where prices were in 2006. For first time homebuyers, this along with favorable mortgage rates and refinancing is leading to absorption of some of the unsold homes at very favorable mortgage loan rates. Over the long term those who are purchasing in these markets will see significant price increases once the market conditions return to normal. Especially when you consider the fact that real estate prices have averaged to about 8.6% a year since the end of World War II. In the medium term the incentives from Washington which includes: an $8,000.00 credit for first time homebuyer and the efforts to remove those bad credit mortgages off the books of many of the financial institutions should lead to a stabilization in mortgage rates and an increase in the overall amount of lending that will be taking place by the various financial institutions. While this is encouraging there have been historical examples of when this massive type of action by the government action has lead to a bottoming in real estate prices some good examples of this include: 1933. During the very depths of the Great Depression real estate prices were falling at an even faster levels than they are today. With the passage of the New Deal legislation it created the first ever government agency to help people be able to avoid foreclosure and stay in their homes called the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). In just a few short years the FHA would be instrumental in bringing an end to the overall real estate and mortgage mess that country was in at the time.

Commercial real estate on the other hand will be slower to recover than residential the reason being is the demand for this particular type of real estate tends to lag behind what is happening on the residential side. Part of the reason is that many businesses often wait for the economy to have made a full recovery before they even consider looking at purchasing any commercial property or thinking about contacting lenders about purchasing a particular piece of property. Even though prices could continue to face many challenges over the short term, the medium term is looking like the market conditions are on the verge of switching into absorption. This means that over the course of several years the excess inventory should work its way off the market. In the long term, those investors who are making investments in this type of real estate will be rewarded handsomely. A good example of this situation occurred in 1982. With one of the most severe recessions that the country has seen since the Great Depression commercial real estate at the time was doing just terrible with vacancies up and excess inventories hanging over the market. Over the next five years prices bottomed then started steadily improving with real estate prices in many cities hitting all time highs at the time in 1987.

In spite of what many are hearing, the real estate market is starting to show signs of absorbing the excess inventory that is out there. Some of this is being fueled by low mortgage interest rates, favorable investment conditions for speculators as well as first time home buyers and the ability to refinance at some of the best loan rates in many years. While these positives will play a role in helping turn the market conditions around the fact of the matter is that it will take time for the markets to finish absorbing the excess supply to create stable conditions once again. Those who have been aggressively buying during these challenging conditions that are willing to take a long term focus will be rewarded for their patience and foresight by taking advantage of the weakness in the current market conditions while others are fearful.

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Fort Lauderdale Foreclosures: 6 Tips To Avoid Foreclosure

1. Contact your lender

Instead of ignoring the problem and letting your home fall in the Fort Lauderdale foreclosure pool, call your lender and apply for a work out.

2. Check your mail

Your lender will likely send you foreclosure notices. Don’t disregard them because they’ll likely provide you with helpful information on how to avoid your home from joining the Fort Lauderdale foreclosure listings.

3. Research laws and rights

Florida requires the lender to go to court before foreclosing a property; and it takes about 4 to 5 months before a property can be foreclosed. Before that happens, research everything you can about the laws in the state, including your mortgage rights, which are certainly indicated in your loan documents.

4. Reinstate your loan through your assets

If you have a second car, life insurance policy or liquid assets, use them to reinstate your loan. Selling your assets for cash shows your lender that you’re willing to do whatever it takes to keep your property.

5. Curb your spending

Remember to always keep your house your second priority after your health. This is the time to look at your spending habits and finances. Determine those things that you can do without in order to save more money. If necessary, you can delay your credit card payments to concentrate on your mortgage.

6. Avoid scams

If someone approaches you and offer help with the promise to clear your debt and save your from the impending foreclosure, do a background check first before signing any document. There are several foreclosure recovery scams in the state, so you’d better be careful in dealing with just anyone.

7. Think before approaching foreclosure companies

While Fort Lauderdale foreclosure companies are legitimate businesses, they often charge customers a large fee for their services. Paying for another service is definitely what you don’t need now. So before applying, think first about your financial standing.

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