Home improvements can be a great way to make your house more desirable when selling it. But not every home repair increases the value of your house....
7 Repairs That Do Not Raise Your Home’s Value
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Loan Modification
Loan Modification: Help for Your Home, Hurt for Your Credit Score.
If you are in trouble with your mortgage payment, you may be applauding recent government programs to help you negotiate a loan modification. You may have already been helped through Making Home Affordable or through a similar program at your bank. Now with recent program changes that encourage principle reduction and offer help making payments when you are unemployed, you may feel assured that you will make it through a tough time with your home intact.
Foreclosures Put Banks in the Spotlight.
Every new wave of the Making Home Affordable Program (HAMP), as well as every wave of foreclosures, puts the banks in the spotlight in ways they...
HAMP – One More Time.
Eversince President Obama announced the Making Home Affordable Program (HAMP) to attack the housing crisis head on, there have been many...
Lower the Principle, Lower Loan Modification Default Rates
Loan modifications would have a better chance of working if the principle was lowered according to a study by the New York Federal Reserve Bank.