Paul L. Underwood is a writer and editor specializing in finance whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Texas Monthly and more. Paul lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, two ...

A mortgage loan modification can offer an opportunity for borrowers to get their monthly payment on their mortgage reduced to an amount they can afford. A mortgage loan modification may extend the ...

The Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) was designed to help homeowners who were struggling financially avoid losing their homes. It did this by modifying some aspects of the original mortgage ...

A defining feature of the 2008 recession was the staggering number of people who lost their homes. While there were 717,522 foreclosures in 2006, according to the Pew Research Center, that number ...

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This program describes the developments in the courts after the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals' opinion in Wigod v. Wells Fargo, including the growing influence of Wigod on the "end run" theory and ...

For homeowners who are struggling with mortgage payments, a valuable opportunity to avoid losing their homes will soon go away. Dec. 31, Making Home Affordable (MHA) will end. MHA, the foreclosure ...

To bolster its effort to reduce foreclosures, today the Obama administration announced new changes to its Home Affordable Modification Program. The proposed measures include allowing unemployed ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More borrowers could be expelled from the Obama administration's premier home rescue program in coming months as mortgage servicers make final decisions on trial modifications ...

Evidence continues to mount against President Obama’s Home Affordable Modification Program. The ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Daryl Issa, R-Calif., ...