Contrary to popular opinion, the Obama Administration’s Making Home Affordable Program continues to show sustained growth each month. The total number of permanent loan modifications continues to grow by 50,000 each month for the last four months.
I’m now in the fourth week of my loan modification, and still holding out hope that I will be one of the successful modifications. According to the most recent statistics (May 2010) the the median reduction was 36% or $500/mo. Even though the total number of active permanent modifications has risen to more than 340,000, the frightening number is there are 3,180,615 loans eligible for loan modification. Only a little more than 11% of eligible loans have been modified.
This week I received a FedEx package from Bank of America, letting me know they had received my loan package (good start!) but that there were documents missing (not so good!).
My initial reaction was, “I guess all those stories are true, these people are incompetent and this will never happen if they lose everything I send them!” (more…)