Susan V. Gregory asked:




Confused about whether you can qualify for a Wells Fargo loan modification to lower your mortgage payment?

Tacity asked:


My husband and I are in our 30s. We have a mortgage that is unbearable but we have manage to make the payment for the three years that we have had the home on-time. Our employment status has changed and my husband is the only one working. Our home value is less than the balance we have. We have good credit. Is there a loan program that can help us reduce our payment/rate? Our rate is currently at 11%. Are there any programs for minorities? Lastly, our mortgage is with HFC and they are dissolving but there mother company is HSBC. I called them re: the President’s Home Affordability Plan that was announced on 3/2/09. Per the website, I should qualify, but HFC said that they did not have any info on this yet and I would have to wait but it looks like I would not qualify. That does not seem right.
I hope this makes sense.
I would greatly appreciate some real help.
we purchased the house for 143,900 now the house is worth 135,000 and our loan balance is 151,000.

ARMAND

webmaster home asked:


These days its fact that its not hard to get home loans. Either its home equity loan or its mortgage loan and availability of easy home equity loans is in full bloom. These loans are uncomplicated, tenable, easily available, very flexible and tailor-made for homeowners. The best part about all this is that almost every loan lending or financial institution offers them.

Most home buyers have to borrow money in order to purchase their home. Few have enough money sitting in the bank, or in other easily saleable assets, to pay the entire cost of the home at once. (Even those few who do have enough money usually find it financially advantageous – perhaps for extra tax relief — to borrow some of the money.) The home loans they receive is called a mortgage. Generally, a mortgage is a loan of money to the home owner secured by a “lien” on the real estate.

Own house is the dream of every person. For a middle class person, it is considered as a life time achievement as it requires quite a huge amount of money. Banks play a pivotal role in fulfilling this basic need. The products they offer and the services they provide are of immense use to people who intend to have their own house. For a safe and beneficial home loan, proper awareness over the products, policies, terms and conditions of the bank is most important as ignorance may result in more payments to the bank in terms of principal and interest components.

A mortgage is a security document that allows the borrower to keep title of the property while using the property as security or collateral for a loan. The lender then places a lien on the property in the event the owner does not pay the agreed payment. When the borrower pays off the loan, the lender gives the borrower a satisfaction of mortgage that removes the lien from the property. About half the states in the U.S. use mortgage foreclosure as the means of satisfying the loan balance.

Mortgage allows investors to pool money in a trust to lend to individuals and companies. They secure their borrowing by a mortgage over residential or commercial properties. The trust collects the interest paid on these loans and then distributes the interest, less charges, as income to investors.

Borrowers should bear in mind that there are two different kinds of mortgage points-discount points and origination points-and that lenders do not all charge the same amount for these different types of points. Discount points refer to an amount of money paid to a lender to obtain a loan at a specific interest rate. These points are like pre-paid interest on a loan that a borrower takes out for a new home, with each point equalling to 1% of the total principal amount of the loan. Origination points are used to pay for the costs of obtaining the loan in the first place. They are much less popular than discount points, as they do not provide borrowers with any valuable benefits and are not tax deductible. Borrowers are therefore better off trying to get a loan that does not require them to acquire these kinds of points.



CHUCK