http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com – Real Estate Marketing – Foreclosure rates on Forbearance Agreements done with banks reaches 58% – With Michael J Barnes and Dan Havey of Real Estate Marketing This Week

Part 3 – In studio with us today on this fine New years eve is Dan Havey, the co founder of the modification hotline as well as the author of The Foreclosure Sharks a great white paper he put together. He is also the author of Real Estates Future and this segment we are talking about loan modifications and some specific information.

You also have a great story to tell about this to. Well unfortunately I have too many stories about people who have had to go through foreclosures, bankruptcies, loan modifications. The one story I want to talk about real quick is a friend of mine who unbeknownst to me went out and did a loan modification on her own and not to get into a whole bunch of technical details on it she ended up getting a pretty decent interest rate because they actually cut her mortgage payment in half and she was pretty happy about that.

She owed a little bit more than the house was worth, she wasnt terribly upside down, but by the time they got done with her she certainly was going to be because the modification, and actually I should not call it a modification, I should call it a forbearance agreement, what they did to her was to say, OK we will cut your interest rate in half, we will cut your monthly payment in half, but we will take all of that deferred interest and tack it onto the back end of the loan. So that by the time her interest rate went back to where it had been, it was going to adjust up over the next five years, so that within that five year time period she was actually going to owe $60,000 in back interest on top of the principal balance that she had before she went to go talk to her bank.

What kind of a deal is that? I didnt think it was a very good one and she ended up eventually not taking it and just recently let the house go back to the bank, because she just looked at it and said, Wait a second here, I am already $20,000 upside down, by the time Im done with you guys I will be $80,000 upside down and so great I get a cheaper payment for a while. She moved into a rental property that was even cheaper then what she would have had to pay to stay in the house and from what she tells me the house is nicer.

Some of the unfortunate scenarios that come up that we get to see. Unfortunately we talk to lots of people that have similar situations, trying to do these on their own and it is possible to do a loan modification on your own. We know that, the program is designed for you to do that. The problem is it generally does not work out.

The re-default rate on loan modifications done on your own is significantly higher than loan modifications facilitated by an attorney that is representing you, for a number of reasons. Number one you have to pay an attorney to represent you. The other is that I think you are going to get a better modification based its not just a negotiation between you and the loss mitigation department for the bank. We are talking about using a professional attorney who is a trained negotiator to negotiate on your behalf with another attorney. By the way, theyre not talking to the same loss mitigation people in India that you may be talking too.

Here are some numbers that just came out from John Dugan who is the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and they did a study of the loan modifications that have been done to date. In many cases these were forbearance agreements, not loan modifications. If an individual talks to his bank, generally speaking he will not get the same as result as what an attorney would do, so most of these are really forbearance agreements. And in that case, 36% had defaulted or were 30 days past due after 6 months and 58% were in default after 8 months. Again that is 58% in default after eight months and I saw some numbers the other day and unfortunately I didnt bring them in with me today, that according to some study of the very few modifications that have been done using an attorney, I say very few, but it is still thousands or tens of thousands, but few compared to what is getting done directly with the bank, the number is only like 5% of the ones done with an attorney have re-defaulted and again I dont have the numbers with me so I cant site the source… http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com/foreclosure-rates-on-forbearance-agreements-reaches-58/

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http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com – Real Estate Marketing – What is a Short Sale? – Short Sale experts discuss How to Negotiate to Stop a Foreclosure…
Produced by Dan Havey of Real Estate Marketing This Week

Part 4 – The lenders, its the loss mitigation departments that youre dealing directly, with the two of you doing the negotiations on behalf of the homeowner. Good, and then do you contact the lender immediately when someone calls you, and were going to talk about when they should call you in just a few minutes, but when the homeowner calls you do you immediately contact the lender and find out when the foreclosure date is and try to get that pushed back?

We do that as soon as possible, we can check the foreclosure date on tax records, if there is one that has been set, but there is some paperwork that is involved before we can contact the lender, because the lender will not just speak to anyone on behalf of the homeowner. You can get a lawyer and they will not talk to your lawyer unless they have authorization in writing from you the homeowner to speak about their financial situation and their mortgage on their behalf. So we do have some paperwork that we have clients do and the first thing is the authorization letter, as soon as we have that we can begin speaking to them on your behalf.

So Kalyn the next question is, when should someone start the process? Now. Honestly if youre listening to us right now and this is striking any sort of nerve you should be calling us. If you have concerns about being able to afford your home, or you cant sell it, if youre in a situation like going through a divorce, going through relocation like Jeri mentioned, all of these situations are possible short sales and you definitely should be on the phone now because too many times we see where people are in denial of whatever the situation may be and finally they are two weeks before foreclosure date and they are calling us.

We dont have enough time with just two weeks. There is too much involved for us to get the foreclosure extended, get an offer, get all the things that are included when you only give us to weeks, and then where are you, a lot of the time they dont even have a place lined up, and if you have a foreclosure on your record its a lot harder to get a rental.

Yes the foreclosure has significant impact on your credit report where as a short sale could be potentially much better. Maybe the foreclosure process will be started during the short sale process but not having it completed is better than having an actual foreclosure on your record.

Absolutely, the foreclosure proceedings started will not even show on a credit check if a landlord or a management company is pulling your credit to approve you for a rental, but its the worst thing in the world if you have gone through a foreclosure and youre just now calling us. I have some clients who need to be in a house this weekend and they have a foreclosure. They contacted me after the foreclosure had gone through and you would think that people would understand with the number of foreclosures going on that would not be as harsh on your credit but its. Were having a really difficult time finding landlords that will accept people who have foreclosures on their credit.

Me as a landlord, my wife and I have several rentals and I were to look at a credit report and see that a foreclosure proceeding had been started but the homeowner and potential renter says, we started it but we were able to sell the house short so we didnt have to go ahead with the foreclosure. That absolutely would be someone that I would consider over someone that had a foreclosure because it shows that they care, they certainly tried their very best, so I would think that is a great situation to be in. So two weeks left before your sale date is too late, its not going to work out.

Well I have recently done one in ten days. So it can be done, I had a one ten days before the foreclosure date and I had the bank put out the foreclosure date about a month and a half and we will close a short sale on that. 90% of the time though we wont be able to help you with that little of time.

Well the hardest part about the process is the beginning process, getting the lender to even acknowledge that they have received the authorization letter or the information packet that we have sent, the financials and the offer. You have to understand that lenders have thousands of foreclosures going on and they may have 20 bulk fax machines in their offices and as the paperwork comes through if its not that persons paperwork it may get tossed. That process alone can take 30 days before they even tell us they got what they need… http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com/if-facing-foreclosure-call-a-short-sale-expert/

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http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com – Real Estate Marketing – Short Sale Objections, Advantages and Hardship Letters; Keeping the Home Owner in the Home helps fight vandalism – Produced by Dan Havey of Real Estate Marketing This Week

Part 3 – One of the things I mentioned at the beginning of the last segment is this special allotment of funds that we received from one of our mortgage banks that we currently have available, a 30 year fixed, no pre payment penalty this is the real deal just what youre looking for a 4.875% interest rate with an APR of 4.95% and that is available we do have people at the office right now if you have questions in regard to that they can answer them for you. You would call 480-Velocity

Michael, I have some clients who are buyers that would love that rate. Is that available to buyers as well? Actually, yes its that rate is for a no cash out refinance, no higher than 80% LTV, they have to have perfect credit to hit this number but even in some cases, well with this particular loan there are some closing costs, but one of the things we have available too is a no cost option and that interest rate is for people who are doing the purchase or refinancing and that rate is only 5.5%. The interest rate is 5.5% and the APR is 5.5% so that is for purchase money as well.

Were back talking here with Jeri League and Kalyn Roberts, were talking about the objections to doing short sales, there is another one you wanted to point out Jeri?

Yes, one more objection that people often have when we talk to them about their particular situation is that people feel that they have to be behind on their mortgage payment in order for a bank to consider a short sale and that is not true, the bank analyses everyones entire situation, we have people write a hardship letter, they want to see your financials and there is an entire situation not just being behind on your mortgage payment.

Your hardship may be that youre being relocated by your employer and you simply cant sell your home for what you owe on it due to todays market conditions. The banks will definitely look at that.
People think that the key is that you have to be late but that is not the case. That is really good to know, so we talked about the objections or the pitfalls rather what about the advantages to doing a short sale?

The biggest advantages to doing a short sale are: that its less impactful on your credit typically than a foreclosure and one of the most exciting benefits is that we can often extend the foreclosure and keep you in your house longer. In Arizona banks have a right to start a foreclosure as soon as youre over 30 days late on one mortgage payment. In todays current economic situation most banks are not starting that process for three to six months, but again that is most banks. They can start after one month.

Yes, but once they start the foreclosure process its a 90 day process in Arizona. So you will get a notice that says basically you have 90 days to come current with the note or to move and they are taking your house and selling it in 90 days. Now once we start the short sale process many times we can extend that foreclosure date.

I have personally done one that we had the home owner in for almost a year from when they stopped making their mortgage payments. Its not uncommon to be two or three months past the original foreclosure date that they gave you which of course gives people a lot longer time to decide what they are going to do, especially if its a family, they are not in such a rush to move, they can keep their kids in the same school district, there are so many reasons that that is a good advantage.

So Kalyn the truth is that homes that are occupied generally are better off and easier to sell than vacant homes right? So long as people are in the house and taking care of the house, if the house looks lived in but not trashed. What youre saying is lenders would just as soon leave them in the house then to have it vacant and potentially vandalized.

Definitely, the lenders prefer to have somebody living in there because they are taking care of the home, like you just said when the homes are vacant there is a high risk of them being vandalized, unfortunately and the worse the economic situation in the country gets the higher the vandalism rate on homes goes. In fact we were talking with a realtor in our office who typically takes listings in some of the lower income areas in town and they are going to stop putting signs on vacant listing because they are getting vandalized so much… http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com/short-sale-objections-advantages-and-hardship-letters/

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