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Realtor: Banks have no incentive to avoid foreclosure - Yuma Sun


Realtor: Banks have no incentive to avoid foreclosure
Yuma Sun
BY DARREN DARONCO - SUN STAFF WRITER In 2009, President Barack Obama unveiled a loan modification program designed to help struggling homeowners restructure their mortgages and keep their homes. But after nearly three years and billions of dollars ...


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You're talking about: Obama's plan to help homeowners - Inside NoVA


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You're talking about: Obama's plan to help homeowners
Inside NoVA
President Barack Obama is urging Congress to consider a plan that would allow homeowners with underwater loans to refinance at lower rates. We asked our Facebook readers what they thought. Here are some of their responses: Donna Shea My question is ...
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Obama Plans Assistance for Rentals, Mortgage Refinancing - San Francisco Chronicle


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Obama Plans Assistance for Rentals, Mortgage Refinancing
San Francisco Chronicle
The president, following up on a promise made during his State of the Union speech last week, will ask Congress for a tax on large banks in order to help homeowners refinance into government-insured Federal Housing Administration loans, the White House ...
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Mortgage hurricane warning from Florida businessman went unheeded - Sarasota Herald-Tribune


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Mortgage hurricane warning from Florida businessman went unheeded
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON Years before the housing bust — before all those home loans turned sour and millions of Americans faced foreclosure — a wealthy businessman in Florida set out to blow the whistle on the mortgage game. His name is Nye Lavalle, ...
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HAMP Loan Program Expands, Too Little Too Late - Huffington Post


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HAMP Loan Program Expands, Too Little Too Late
Huffington Post
The federal government is taking another stab at helping struggling homeowners keep their homes by expanding its failed loan modification program. Many in the housing community said they think it's too little too late. Under new guidelines for the Home ...
Obama extends mortgage help programUSA TODAY (blog)
Obama administration to extend and expand foreclosure relief programFox News
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White House proposes new help for troubled mortgages. Too little, too late? - Christian Science Monitor


Christian Science Monitor

White House proposes new help for troubled mortgages. Too little, too late?
Christian Science Monitor
President Obama on Friday proposed to sweeten a deal from Washington to entice banks to modify payments, lower loan principal, and expand eligibility in order to help more of the 11 million American families sinking under their mortgages.
Obama may be right, finally: Foreclosure plan better designed for states such ...Palm Beach Post (blog)
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Skepticism greets new federal plan to help homeowners - Tampabay.com


Skepticism greets new federal plan to help homeowners
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By Mark Puente, Times Staff Writer Hoopla and headlines follow the announcement of each new federal program to help distressed homeowners, as they did last week when President Obama detailed his latest initiative. But five years into the housing bust, ...

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Obama Administration Expands Aid for Delinquent US Homeowners - BusinessWeek


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Obama Administration Expands Aid for Delinquent US Homeowners
BusinessWeek
28 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration, seeking to help more homeowners lower their interest rates and shed mortgage debt, will relax the rules on a federal loan- modification program and triple its incentives to banks. The revised Home Affordable ...
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Obama Administration Announces Pilot Program to Help Rural Borrowers Refinance ... - MMD Newswire (press release)


Obama Administration Announces Pilot Program to Help Rural Borrowers Refinance ...
MMD Newswire (press release)
In 2010, USDA Rural Development established an aggressive modification policy for Guaranteed Loans that helps homeowners who are delinquent on their mortgages. These homeowners can lower their monthly payments through a loan modification that ...

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Homeowners struggle to get mortgage relief - Tulsa World


Homeowners struggle to get mortgage relief
Tulsa World
He said he first contacted Chase bank for a mortgage modification in December 2010. The Obama administration last month said that it will expand the foreclosure-prevention program to try to help those with heavy debt loads avoid losing their homes.

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