Effective immediately, homeowners in danger of foreclosure have a new way out. Until the end of the year 2012, Obama's home loan modification plan is in full swing. The loan modification project is part of the Making Home Affordable plan, and collectively the mortgage rescue plan will save up to 9 million homes from foreclosure nationwide. Everyone knows that the economy is in a difficult situation right now. The current recession has encouraged a dangerous spiral of layoffs and wage reductions at work, which in turn leads to foreclosures and delinquent loan payments at home. That's why foreclosures have skyrocket in number, and property values have plummeted.
One foreclosure can affect the prices of all the homes in a neighborhood. One study estimates that a home can lose up to 9% of its value when a neighboring home is foreclosed. Therefore, not only people who directly experience foreclosure are affected. Many often owe more on their mortgages than their home is worth, and others are in danger of foreclosure. The President's Making Home Affordable plan gives two broad options to citizens with home loans that find themselves in financial crisis mode. Concerned homeowners are asked to speak with a HUD-approved financial counselor for no charge. With the counselor's help, they go over their financial portfolio and may be directed to a Hope for Homeowners refinance. These refinances have special rules that accommodate many more people than old rules used to.
In the past, people have needed 20% equity in their homes before they can refinance, but Hope for Homeowners relaxes that requirement, meaning that falling property prices has erased much of the equity that homeowners have built up in the past. The plan keeps falling house values from hurting homeowners who can't make monthly payments. If a Hope for Homeowners refinance doesn't work for them, HUD counselors are directed to offer a second option. The President has created a $75 million Homeowner Stability Initiative to modify the mortgage loans of 4 to 5 million American homeowners living in crisis. Lenders may modify certain loans under a consistent set of guidelines in order to lower monthly payments to 31% of a borrower's gross monthly income.
The money in this initiative goes to pay financial incentives of $1,000 to lenders and borrowers who participate in the program. If the lender deems that a modified loan with incentive payments is more profitable for them than foreclosure, the loan is modified. There will be a three-month trial period for modified loans. For the next 90 days, the borrower pays on the new modified monthly premiums, and if that is done successfully the modified loan terms stay in effect for the next five years.
The interest rate stays at its new low rate for those five years, after which it can be raised 1% per year until it reaches market averages. The President's Making Home Affordable project tries to respond to the concerns of real homeowners like you who are worried about high monthly premiums, due to loss of income or loss of home equity. Obama's loan modification plan will cut back on the country's high number of annual foreclosed homes, gradually causing economic conditions and house prices to go back up.
One foreclosure can affect the prices of all the homes in a neighborhood. One study estimates that a home can lose up to 9% of its value when a neighboring home is foreclosed. Therefore, not only people who directly experience foreclosure are affected. Many often owe more on their mortgages than their home is worth, and others are in danger of foreclosure. The President's Making Home Affordable plan gives two broad options to citizens with home loans that find themselves in financial crisis mode. Concerned homeowners are asked to speak with a HUD-approved financial counselor for no charge. With the counselor's help, they go over their financial portfolio and may be directed to a Hope for Homeowners refinance. These refinances have special rules that accommodate many more people than old rules used to.
In the past, people have needed 20% equity in their homes before they can refinance, but Hope for Homeowners relaxes that requirement, meaning that falling property prices has erased much of the equity that homeowners have built up in the past. The plan keeps falling house values from hurting homeowners who can't make monthly payments. If a Hope for Homeowners refinance doesn't work for them, HUD counselors are directed to offer a second option. The President has created a $75 million Homeowner Stability Initiative to modify the mortgage loans of 4 to 5 million American homeowners living in crisis. Lenders may modify certain loans under a consistent set of guidelines in order to lower monthly payments to 31% of a borrower's gross monthly income.
The money in this initiative goes to pay financial incentives of $1,000 to lenders and borrowers who participate in the program. If the lender deems that a modified loan with incentive payments is more profitable for them than foreclosure, the loan is modified. There will be a three-month trial period for modified loans. For the next 90 days, the borrower pays on the new modified monthly premiums, and if that is done successfully the modified loan terms stay in effect for the next five years.
The interest rate stays at its new low rate for those five years, after which it can be raised 1% per year until it reaches market averages. The President's Making Home Affordable project tries to respond to the concerns of real homeowners like you who are worried about high monthly premiums, due to loss of income or loss of home equity. Obama's loan modification plan will cut back on the country's high number of annual foreclosed homes, gradually causing economic conditions and house prices to go back up.
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