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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

THE OPTIMUM policy for the home foreclosure crisis is to modify the loans of as many distressed homeowners as possible. Making mortgage terms more affordable by mutual agreement enables families to ...

The Home Modification Program was recently announced by State Rep. Maurice West (D-Rockford). This program offers grant funding to help people with disabilities make changes to their homes so they can ...

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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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The lack of affordable single-family housing in South Carolina is a big problem. The median listing price of a home in the state is $350,000, according to a December 2024 Federal ...