Imagine you’re rich. Super rich. Now, imagine you want to build yourself a clubhouse. Fun game so far, huh?

This clubhouse will be built in the middle of town, only you don’t want to have to pay for it. So, you convince your neighbors to pony up their money to pay for your shiny new clubhouse. Well, not so much convince as blackmail. See, if they don’t give you money to pay for the clubhouse, you will leave and take the town’s prized tourist attraction because, well, you own that, too.

So, they agree to build your clubhouse. Once built, you charge your neighbors an exorbitant fee to enter the clubhouse.

Sounds like a rotten deal, huh?

Interestingly enough, that’s exactly how most city stadiums are built. Sport teams are no doubt a huge part of a city’s culture (indeed, the Cincinnati Reds, DotLoop‘s own hometown team, won their division last night and clinched the playoffs, causing all sorts of excitement in the city), but often, the city never really owns the team. Or the stadiu

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The number one complaints from servicing loan modification companies like American Home Mortgage, EMC, Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo is incomplete submissions!  It is a processors worst nightmare!  Truly speaking from experience here folks…. Not only does it bog down the system and wastes a lot of people’s time, in the end it could mean the difference on getting help or not!! YIKES!!!

After all folks we are talking about your home, aren’t we?  This is where you have made your memories, where your kids have grown up etc. This is a serious epidemic in our country.  By all means be proactive!!! If you know you are going to fall behind reach out and call your servicer and or lender and let them know.

A good tip is to write down the questions you want to ask your lender/servicer before you call them.

Below are a few tips to help you reach your goal of getting a successful loan modification and preventing and or stopping any foreclosure proceedings!

1). U

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Anyone that has successfully closed a short sale in the last few years can benefit from knowing what to expect when purchasing a home in the future.  It’s very likely the borrower had to make late payments during their negotiations with the bank before their short sale closed.  These late payments may no longer be affecting their current credit score; however, the underwriter will review their entire credit history when determining their ability to repay a mortgage loan.  If late payments are reflected within their mortgage history, the underwriter will want a letter of explanation. 

I’ve personally seen a borrower’s credit report reflect a 700+ credit rating after having a foreclosure less than 6 months prior.  Unfortunately, this person was told by a mortgage lender that they would qualify for a home loan.  Once the file was sent to an underwriter, their loan application was denied.  Even though this borrower had a great credit score, they were unable to obtain a mortgage loan because of their previous mortgage disposition or disposition of property.  The guidelines for a FHA loan require a 3 year seasoning period after a foreclosure before utilizing FHA financing to purchase a new home. 

So what is disposition of the mortgage?  Per the IRS, the disposition of a property or mortgage includes the following transactions:

• You sell property for cash or other property.
• You exchange property for other property.
• You receive money as a tenant for the cancellation of a lease.
• You receive money for granting the exclusive use of a copyright throughout its life in a particular medium.
• You transfer property to satisfy a debt.
• You abandon property.
• Your bank or other financial institution forecloses on your mortgage or repossesses your property.
• Your property is damaged, destroyed, or stolen, and you receive property or money in payment.
• Your property is condemned, or disposed of under the threat of condemnation, and you receive property or money in payment.

While underwriting a file, an underwriter looks for reasons the loan may be ineligible to finance.  If there are multiple late payments on a mortgage loan, the underwriter will probably request a letter of explanation as to why there were late payments.  A short sale transaction isn’t always reported with full disclosure on the credit report.  A veteran Mortgage Loan Officer will probably notice the lates and request a reasonable explanation.  However, if you’re working with someone who lacks experience that merely runs the file through Automated Underwriting and assumes the borrower qualifies – your transaction will fall apart.  The reason being once the underwriter asks about the disposition of the property and finds out it was sold for less than owed, the borrower will have to wait the required time period to purchase. 

Be careful, as this will be more common in the next few years.  Working with trusted professionals benefits everyone involved.

Dayton and Miami County Ohio Bank & Court Foreclosure Step-by-Step Process

This is the foreclosure process in Dayton and Miami County Ohio. It’s basically the same process throughout the state of Ohio (and many other states) with time frames varying based on the county that you reside.

What Is The Foreclosure Process In Montgomery and Miami County Ohio?

Foreclosure has unfortunately become a very popular vocabulary term heard by most everyone these days. Even though most have heard about it, many don’t really understand what it really is outside of knowing it’s about loosing your house. A foreclosure is a legal process by which a Dayton mortgage company, mortgage servicer, or mortgage investor seeks to take possession of your home. A foreclosure cannot be started against a homeowner until the owner has defaulted on his mortgage.

How Many Payments Behind Can I be Before Foreclosure?

When the homeowner is behind on payments it’s known as being in default. Many believe

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We’ll be live in Austin, Texas at the 2010 Keller William Mega Camp (look for us in booth #500).

We’re saddling up for another show in Galveston, Texas at the 2010 Texas Association of Realtors Convention and Trade Expo.

A bit closer to home (in our own hometown of Cincinnati), we are at the 2010 OAR Convention today. This is the 100th anniversary of the convention, and we’re excited to help OAR celebrate!

We’ll just be getting over our jet lag when it’s back on the road at the Virginia Association of Realtors’ REal Show: VAR’s Convention & Expo 2010 Conference on October 1st.

Whew!

By Brian Madigan LL.B.

This case seems rather straightforward. The owner of a property situate in the Grand River Conservation area lists his property for sale. The agent, Ralph Murphy fails to ascertain the zoning and the development restrictions that apply to the property.

Murphy is approached by a purchaser who wants to build on the site. There is certainly a nice view of the Grand River. It’s close, in fact, too close “for development” according to the Grand River Conservation Authority.

The listing agreement was somewhat on the faulty side. It said that the present use was “single family dwelling”. Both the vendor and the purchaser knew that the property was vacant. So, you would have thought that the Murphy would have known this too!

Murphy acts for the purchaser and prepares an Offer, but never has the purchaser sign a representation agreement or an acknowledgement that he obtained a copy of the offer.

AGREED STATEMENT OF FACTS

1. John Murp

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The short sighted landlord may think of the hiring of a property manager as an additional expense, but the knowledgeable property owner knows that an effective property management team can prove to be an important wealth building “tool.”

Certainly, the landlord will pay a fee for services rendered to the property management company, but the services that the property management company can provide will more than offset these fees.

Obviously, any services performed that will maximize profitability and minimize expenses are services that are indispensable to the success of any business venture.

The landlord that thinks only of the cost of hiring a property management team often neglects to consider how much the landlord’s time is worth, and where this time can be put to more advantageous use other than the often tedious and very time-consuming  day-to-day rental property management duties and tasks.

The landlord can utilize the knowledge and resources of the property management team to monitor area rental costs on a continuous basis. This i

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HUD had been discussing a new variation of the Reverse Mortgage program for quite a while and they finally announced some of the particulars. The program, which they have decided to call the HECM Saver, will be a limited version of the regular HECM reverse mortgage that HUD has had in place that will now be referred to as the HECM Standard. The new HECM Saver is intended for borrowers who do not intend to borrower the full amount of funds available to them under the HECM Standard program and as a result, will receive lower up-front mortgage insurance fees for the lower risk to HUD.

Originally it was thought that the HECM Saver program would be much more popular with fixed rate borrowers since the fixed rate option requires borrowers to take a lump sum distribution of all the funds available to them under the program at funding.

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