Gene Perez on May 8th, 2011

FHA spelled out tough standards that required that condo projects approved for FHA financial before 2007 have their approvals renewed by Dec. 7, 2010. Because there were so many, the FHA extended the deadline, setting new deadlines throughout 2011. The only losers were the 2,200 projects that had the oldest approvals. The FHA urges all condominium owners to get in touch with their associations

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Gene Perez on May 1st, 2011

Many were hit and it was partly due to the worldwide financial recession that these poor folks had been hit hard and were hardly capable of making ends meet…with the prices of essential products increasing let alone to pay for homes that they could not longer afford. It absolutely was because of this financial crunch that they had been unable to fulfill their home mortgage loan obligations many were laid off that were once high paying jobs or businesses that folded and were facing the sad prospect of having to deal with a foreclosure sale.

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Gene Perez on April 16th, 2011

The administration and some banks themselves have increasingly seen reducing the size of a borrower’s loan — what’s known as principal reduction — as an important tool for helping the quarter of all homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages. T

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admin on March 5th, 2011

This is probably a big question as to whether the banks will reduce the balances of the many homeowners that are trying to get a loan modification. Not to mention what is the govt.’s position on this since these banks were bailed out with tax payer funds .

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Gene Perez on February 5th, 2011

A formal loan application is usually submitted when a pre-approval is written. No later than three days after a formal loan application is submitted, lenders must issue a binding GFE of all closing costs. Lenders cannot request any tax returns or bank statements from the homebuyer until the binding GFE is submitted.

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Gene Perez on February 5th, 2011

New appraisal guidelines are affecting how homes are appraised in the Santa Maria real estate market for those that are trying to get a new mortgage home loan. I found this simple explanation from a unhappy home owner to be helpful regarding appraisal guidelines if you happen to have an appraisal you are not happy with.

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Gene Perez on February 5th, 2011

These new rules go into effect this month, and are for FHA loans only, although there are changes happening in Fannie and Freddie Mac’s lending guidelines as well. But for now let us just stick to FHA, without confusing anyone. FHA = Federal Housing Administration,

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Gene Perez on February 5th, 2011

When a marriage ends in divorce, the lives of those involved are changed forever. During this time of upheaval, one thing that shouldn’t have to change is the credit status you’ve worked so hard to achieve.

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Gene Perez on January 9th, 2011

Which most people cannot do since the typical conventional home loan would require you to have a down payment of either 10 or 20% down and that is aside from the closings costs. Too be honest in this economy I do not come across too many clients that have

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Gene Perez on January 9th, 2011

There’s a structural mess in their departments that they’re not fixing,” Cox told me. “[Banks] refuse to organize their servicing departments in a way that would produce accurate results. There’s a foreclosure department that doesn’t talk to the department handling modifications.”

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