USDA loans: With a USDA loan, you can modify your mortgage with an extended term of up to 40 years, reduce the interest rate ...

Loan modification programs are initiatives designed to help borrowers who are struggling to make their mortgage payments. These programs provide an opportunity to restructure the terms of a mortgage ...

Apparently the easiest way to get a loan modification these days is to have a news reporter make a call for you. That seems to have been the case for Maria C. Nido, a friendly and humble 55-year-old ...

FDIC Chairman Sheila C. Bair has announced that IndyMac Federal Bank FSB will implement a new program to systematically modify troubled mortgages. The program is designed to achieve affordable and ...

Financially stressed homeowners looking to cut their mortgage payments through a loan modification, short sale or principal reduction under one of the Obama administration's programs needn't wreck ...

Five months into the government’s $75 billion loan modification program, less than 12 percent of eligible homeowners have seen their mortgage payments reduced, according to data released by the ...

The fear of layoffs has been strong in the past few years—and for federal workers, that fear only continues to grow. There are also circumstances in which lenders will allow you to redraw up to your ...

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