Published On: March 21, 2017
Fannie, Freddie Create New Mortgage Loan Modification Program By Geoff Walsh, a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) who focuses on foreclosure prevention, consumer bankruptcy, and other consumer credit issues. An active [...]
Published On: March 20, 2017
Nationstar Mortgage fails to report accurate mortgage transactions Nationstar to pay 1.75 Million for failure to report accurate loan data. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action against Nationstar Mortgage LLC for [...]
Published On: April 26, 2015
Hundreds of thousands of people try to save their homes are defrauded by “mortgage modification” and other scams. Desperate people find themselves and their family on the street after trying [...]
Published On: April 15, 2015
Why Do Some Law Firms Act Like Used Car Sales Lots? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) (4/15/15) issued a final interpretive rule on how to provide mortgage applicants with a list of local homeownership [...]
Published On: April 4, 2015
Fannie Mae clearing books of non-performing loans. Is this the beginning of a new foreclosure cycle? Why Do Some Law Firms Act Like Used Car Sales Lots? According to Bloomberg News: Fannie Mae will begin [...]
Published On: July 25, 2014
'CFPB Files Suits for Operations that Used Deception and False Promises to Collect More than $25 Million in Illegal Fees from Distressed Homeowners. This is just a drop in the bucket compared to the amount [...]
Published On: July 25, 2014
Litigation against law firms, greedy attorneys, affiliated companies and others that claimed to perform work on behalf of homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages. The other day a caller said "I used a document preparer [...]
Published On: July 19, 2014
PHH suffered one outrageous atrocity after another on the homeowner. Jury disgusted and awarded a $16.2 million. The other day a caller said "I used a document preparer or bankruptcy petition preparer. Certainly they have [...]
Published On: March 13, 2014
HAMP report indicates that nearly 30 percent of those who qualified for HAMP relief have defaulted again. The other day a caller said "I used a document preparer or bankruptcy petition preparer. Certainly they have [...]
Published On: December 27, 2013
For several years I have been explaining that no one can predict the length of time that FHA, Fannie Mae or HUD, or a specific lender will require a homeowner to wait to qualify for a new home loan after a prior foreclosure, short sale or bankruptcy.
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