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Loss Mitigation Consultants

Question: Does anyone know about becoming a Loss Mitigation Consultant? This is for foreclosures?

I am looking for a job and I came across postings in becoming a Loss Mitigation consultant. Since I'm familiar with the mortgage industry I thought this would be a good area for me. However I have found that a lot of these websites charge you to become a consultant. Is this the way it usually is or are they just trying to make more money? Is anyone here a current loss mitigation consultant? Has it worked for you? I really don't want to throw my money away but I would like to get into the Foreclosure area because I know lots of people going through this now.

Answer: i would never pay money to a website to find me a job as a consultant!!! sounds like a legal scam!!!

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Loss Mitigation Wells Fargo Mortgage

If The Obama administration can't coax mortgage providers in California into action, perhaps they can shame them. While pushing forward the Mortgage Modification program designed to help millions of American citizens avoid foreclosure, they have been naming the worst banks to try to shame them into changing their policies.

Banks usually realize that it is in their best interests to help homeowners make the necessary loan modifications, because foreclosures are costly for them as well- if they're not being myopic, they'll realize that a healthy housing industry will result in more profits for them. But getting a mortgage lender to reduce interest and be reasonable with loan mods is easier said than done.

But according to the government, the leader is Saxon Mortgage Services (a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley), and JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup are also showing willingness to cooperate with the administrations goals and help homeowners out.

The worst of the bunch? Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, with around only five percent of its loansin trial modifications. The White House has responded to this poor showing with their "Mortgage Plan", a requirement that all borrowers go through a three month trial period to prove they can make payments on time before they get caught up in the full-fledged loan. If the goal is met, the borrow gets a cash incentive that reduces the amount of principle they must pay in the future. And there are even more incentives involved in the Mortgage Plan: three thousand dollars off the principle for every year that payments are perfectly paid.

But it's an uphill battle. Banks are often not equipped to provide loan modifications on the fly because it's a fairly new concept and is often just not profitable. In the old days, banks existed only to lend, collect, and process mortgage payments. They would be engaged in many kinds of investments, but the retail sector was their tried and true method of garnering profit. It was up to separate debt relief companies to provide services for helping homeowners consolidate their debt or mitigate their losses. Many banks find it difficult to set up loan modification systems: they have train staff, make new decisions, set protocols and guidelines, engage in a new kind of management that may be utterly foreign to them. Big banks are usually pretty uneasy with such a high volume of sudden change.

And secondly, banks make decisions based on profits. They only want to take actions that will benefit their profit margin, and loan modification doesn't always fall under that category. Encouraging banks into making decisions that will result in cash loss is no mean feat. Perhaps that is why shaming them into it seems to be working better.

So from the perspective of the homeowner, these policies are a good thing. However, if you own a bank, you may be less than pleased.

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Loss Mitigation Foreclosure

Question: News forecasts, be more specific on borrowers rights on foreclosures. Help us?

Who can we contact for help? Who can we trust with so many scams and identy theft everywhere? Should we get legal help as well as housing counseling? How do we get in contact with the loss mitigation dept. with the lender? Whats our government doing to help/protect us from foreclosures?

Answer: You can also try the Home Owners Preservation Foundation. They are a nonprofit organization that will help you negotiate a forebearance with you lender for free. They are at www.995hope.org.

Also, contact your local HUD office. There are a lot of local programs available.

Two other options you have: Deed in lieu, and reverse mortgages. Deed in lieu is where you basically surrender your deed to the mortgage company without them having to go through the legal battle. It saves them tons of legal costs, and it saves you from having a foreclosure. A reverse mortgage is where you sell you home back to the lender based on how much equity you have in the home. If you have been paying the mortgage on time for a long time, you will have a couple of months or years of time with no mortgage payments to get your finances in repair before the lender owns your home and you have to vacate the premises.

Finally check with local investors. There are always people out there who will buy your house from you for a profit. You can find them in your local newspaper under the real estate classifieds. They normally have ads that say "we buy houses". This may not always be profitable to you. It will remove the problem though, and save you from having a black foreclosure mark on your record for life. A lot of times you can walk away with some cash in your pocket too.

Whatever you do - you have to MOVE FAST and act now. A bank can foreclose in a very short amount of time. Once a house is foreclosed, then you have lost every claim to any money that you have put into that property (although in some states there is a redemption period in which you can still pay off the loan and get the property back).

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