5 Things in a Loan Modification Hardship Letter

A financial hardship letter explains to your creditor why you are in financial trouble and requests a specific remedy to help you through the crisis. There are different reasons for writing a hardship letter, but the most common these days are:

1. Requesting a Loan Modification or restructuring

2. Requesting a short sale to avoid foreclosure

The hardship letter is a primary requirement in the loan application process. Your loan modification attorney will ask you to submit it along with your other financial documents, so that they can evaluate your situation and present a strong case to your lender.

When writing a hardship letter for a Home loan modification, keep in mind that the lenders really want to see why you have fallen behind with your mortgage payments. It should be clear, honest, and contain just the right amount of detail. The way you write it can literally spell the difference between keeping and losing your home. Here’s how you can write a hardship letter that puts your point across and gets you the best loan modification deal.

1. Keep it concise. A typical lender can only spend five minutes reading your letter. Try to keep it to a single page; any longer and they might not have time to really read it through. Lose all unnecessary details and keep only those that are relevant to your case.

2. Get straight to the point. Start by stating the purpose of your letter (whether it’s a loan modification or a short sale), so that the reader knows outright what to expect. Basically, it should say “I need you to buy my home/restructure my mortgage/give me a lower interest rate,” in a way that compels them to find out why. You can use the succeeding paragraphs to explain it in more detail.

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Cash Advance Loans: the Convenient Way to Meet your Financial Emergency

Cash advance loans are categorized as short-term personal loans and are popular due to their easy terms. The lender makes the loan decisions based on certain criteria that the applicant has to meet. The terms and conditions vary with individual lenders. Direct Cash Now is a leading short-term private lending group offering a helping hand in providing cash advance loans with an easy and efficient approach.

Cash advance loans provide immediate access to cash in order to meet your emergencies. If you need money quickly, we are the cash advance lenders specialized in providing the cash for any purpose you need. Our short-term money advance offers faster money providing a convenient repayment through payroll deduction or direct debit from your bank account. The remarkable feature of our cash advance loans is that after approval of an application, the funds are transferred into your nominated account by Electronic Funds Transfer instantly.

Now getting cash advance loans is a hassle-free process with our online and convenient system. Our procedure starts with you completing an online application form. We evaluate each application on its individual merits and send you a confirmation email with your reference number. After we receive the required documentation by fax or scan quoting your reference number, we verify the information and determine your credit worthiness. Before final approval we check all the documents of terms and conditions duly signed by you. Once confirmed, funds for your cash advance loans will be transferred into your account.

The conditions to meet our eligibility criteria is that the applicant

• Must be at least 18 years of age.

• Must be a resident of Australia.

• Should have sufficient income to repay the loans without hardship.

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Mortgage Loan Approval Sometimes Need a Human Touch

In the mid 1990’s, the mortgage industry saw the credit score and its predictive power to assess a borrower’s ability to repay a mortgage step into the limelight as one of the most indicative factors for loan approval. After conducting statistical test after statistical test, Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie, the 3 big lending institutions, mandated that the credit score should be used in conjunction with manual underwriting to assess loan approval. Not too long after, automated underwriting systems (AUS) were developed that expedited and streamlined the underwriting process even further for lenders. A loan officer today simply inputs a borrower’s key information into the preferred underwriting automatic engine, such as his/her credit score, income, amount being borrowed, cash reserves, employment and housing history, and the value of the property. A response is returned by the underwriting engine recommending approval or denial for the loan.

If your loan receives a denial from an AUS, the buck doesn’t necessarily stop there. Life happens to people, and oftentimes it’s going to take a real live person understanding the nuances of a file to make an underwriting decision. That’s when your lender may suggest submitting your file to underwriting for a manual review. After all, not everything in life can be automatic, right?

A perfect scenario for a manually underwritten file would be someone who has no credit scores. No credit scores? Yes, it is possible. I’ve had customers who, being old school and always having paid for everything in cash, had never established traditional credit lines that reported to credit reporting bureaus. In a case such as this one, I had to submit non-traditional lines of credit to underwriting, something a machine can’t assess. This means I had my customer bring in bills he had paid on time for the past year to create a credit history. Typical ones used are car insurance, utility bills, cell phone bills and cable bills. You can expect to have to provide 3-4 different trade lines if you haven’t established a traditional credit history and score.  Read more...

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Jumbo Loans and White Elephants: Will the Pace Pick Up?

According to Wikipedia, the definition for a white elephant is “a valuable possession which the owner cannot dispose of, but whose cost (particularly of upkeep) exceeds its usefulness.”    Hmmm.  Sounds like some of the higher priced homes we hear may be sitting on the market a little bit longer than usual.  According to the Knoxville Area Association of Realtors (KAAR), the number of homes valued at $500K+ which sold in May 2008 was 34.  But there were 205 new listings.

 

Ok, so I have to give you a little bit of history about the origin of the phrase white elephant.  It really has nothing to do with mortgage lending, but it’s a cool information nugget to know.  Per Wikipedia (yes, again),  in the tales from the Buddhist scriptures, Buddha’s mother dreamt of a white elephant giving her a lotus flower on the eve of Buddha’s birth.  Thus, in Southeast Asia, it became a status symbol to own a white elephant (basically a requirement if you were some type of royalty).  However, due to being sacred and all, the owner couldn’t have the white elephant actually do any work or labor to offset its keep.  Ever wonder how much food an elephant can consume a day?  Think of the clean up after it eats!  You not only get to feed the beast constantly, but you also have nothing to show for it when you’re done.  You get the picture.

 

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