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Temecula Real Estate – $700 million to help California Homeowners

Thursday, June 24th, 2010
In what has to be good news for distressed homeowners in California the Department of the Treasury has approved a $700 million funding to help California homeowners avoid foreclosure.
The program will be administered by the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) as part of its Keep Your Home Program.

Help for California Homeowners

There are four assistance initiatives all of which should be open by November 1.

  • Help for homeowners who are unemployed and in danger of defaulting on their loans
  • Help for homeowners who are behind on their payments but could catch up with a little help.
  • Help for homeowners in the form of principal reductions who need it to avoid foreclosure.
  • Help for homeowners in the form of transition assistance (“cash for keys”) for those who cannot afford to keep their homes. (more…)
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Temecula Real Estate – HAFA a first person point of view Week 3

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Over the last couple of years, I’ve heard so many horror stories about the loan modification process I was very reluctant to jump in, thinking the frustration I would experience would eventually be replaced with disappointment when:
1) the loan modification was denied
2) The offered modification wouldn’t be sufficient to help me keep my house.
But the ease of completing the package and the latest government figures on the success of the HAFA program have made me “cautiously optimistic” that something good will come of this.
Each month the government releases figures on the progress of its Making Home Affordable Program and each month the number of modifications completed, both trial and permanent, continues to grow. Also growing is the number of modifications that include principal reductions. (more…)

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Temecula Real Estate Market – a first person view of HAFA Week 2

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Making home affordable

To see the previoous posts on this subjectWe’ve been in the HAFA process for a full week now and BofA, as promised, sent the loan modification package which I received on Wednesday.
My initial conversation with Bank of America went a lot smoother than I anticipated. When I spoke to a customer service representative in the Bank of America loan servicing department (using the 800 number on my monthly statement), when we told him we were interested in a loan modification, he immediately transferred us to that department and within a couple of minutes were speaking with a “housing retention specialist”. (more…)

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