A perspective on the Minneapolis/St. Paul housing market
Minnesota Home Ownership Center does a great job of helping struggling homeowners determine and exercise their options. Their blog post yesterday introduced me to a short article from Public Citizen that explains a large part of our problems in negotiating loan mods and short sales.
The Huffington Post has a story discussing a new report by the National Consumer Law Center regarding how the compensation structure for servicers make it more financially advantageous to service the loan through foreclosure than to help prevent the foreclosure by doing a short sale or loan modification. Sad but probably quite true.
NCLC Report on [...]
Fellow local blogger and awesome mortgage broker Alex Stenback has a great post explaining how few people are being helped by the Marking Home Affordable program, which has only helped 93,000 borrowers so far when original estimates suggested up to 7 million could be helped.
If we could do more successful loan modifications and short sales [...]
Freddie Mac has released a 2 minute video with suggestions on what you will need to provide for a mortgage loan modification request. If you have everything prepared beforehand, the process will be quicker and smoother than if you do not prepare. As mortgage modifications can take weeks or months to complete, having everything upfront [...]
This blog is written by Aaron Dickinson, a REALTOR with Edina Realty. Views expressed are the views of Aaron Dickinson and not of Edina Realty or any other organizations that Aaron is affiliated with.
Aaron Dickinson
Edina Realty
1-800-941-0959
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