Friday, October 3, 2008

Explain the FHA Short Refinance to me again please!

Allrighty then, one more time to answer the question of the FHA Short Refinance problemo. The main issues surround the ideology of the mortgage lender that has the loan now. While FHA thinks the lender will short the payoff and this happens from time to time, the majority of lenders with an FHA short refinance qualified borrower will not short the payoff.

This is the problem with the FHA refinancing taking place. The mortgage lender must short the refinancing balance for this FHA short refinance and we are still gathering data on the subject. Your FHA short refinance experiences may vary.

FHA SHORT REFINANCES

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Why Short Refinance with FHA?

If you want to keep your home, but don't have enough equity to get into an FHA refinance loan, you have tried a loan modification or normal FHA refinance and it didn't work, then an FHA short refinance is your answer. You may be able to get your LTV (loan to value) right where you need it to be in order to qualify for an FHA refinance! It's a well known fact that there are companies out there that will do foreclosure bailouts, but the main draw back is that the LTV needs to be between 50% - 60%, with most lenders tightening there belts down to the 50% notch. Most homeowners have LTV's between the 75% - 100+% range. The problem with this is that most lenders won't accept them unless it is an FHA short refinance. Therefore, by negotiating an FHA short-refi with your current lender, you can obtain a short payoff of less than the full amount owed, getting your LTV where it is needed to refinance your home with FHA. Thus, also creating equity in your home, where before you had little or none and that makes the FHA happy as well.

FHA short refinance is the way to go.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Fabulous Article on FHA Short Refinances

I've been thinking that more should be written about the FHA short refinance program. This is the refinance vehicle for borrowers who are short funds to close on a new FHA loan; hence, the name FHA short refinance.

Quite interstingly, the FHA short refinance loans has been discussed at a few places. My thoughts are that this post will rank high in the search engines for the terms FHA Short Refinance.

Let's look into the FHA short refi (or refinance) at a later date.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Calling Beth, Bobby, Brandy, Brenda, Brett, and Brian to the Mortgage SDOmain and Loan Website

WWW.BETHLOANS.NET is a Beth type of mortgage lending site while WWW.BOBBYLOANS.COM is for a mortgage broker named Bobby.

WWW.BRANDYLOANS.COM is a suitable domain name for Brandy who may be a loan officer at the local bank. And of course WWW.BRENDADOESLOANS.COM and WWW.BRENDALOANS.COM are for Brenda the mortgage lady and also WWW.BRENDASLOANS.COM calls for the Brenda mortgage loan too.

Lastly we have Brian and Brett who are up to mortgage loan websites that have Brian and Brett and do lending or loans. You can find Brett at WWW.BRETTSLOANS.COM and Brian can apply for a loan at a website with teh name Brian in it like WWW.BRIANSLOANS.COM

Mortgage Domains are everywhere around the internet and mortgage loans that begin with the letter 'A' are also plentiful. The mortgage important facet of mortgage lending websites for the originators is that the mortgage domain or website should have a personal name and use the word: loans or loan.

Avoid the mortgage bank and get your bank referrals whenever possible online. Thank you for listening to mortgage websites and mortgage domain names for a bit. Goodbye for now.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Preapprove Short Sale

There has been much discussion about the existence of preapprove short sale and I thought I would take a moment to define the terms preapprove short sale by first beginning with some definitions.

pre·ap·prove (pr-prv):

tr.v. pre·ap·proved, pre·ap·prov·ing, pre·ap·proves To approve or qualify before the usual procedures or formalities have taken place: preapprove an application; a customer who was preapproved for a $2,000 credit line.

Short Sale:

A sale of a house in which the proceeds fall short of what the owner still owes on the mortgage. Many lenders will agree to accept the proceeds of a short sale and forgive the rest of what is owed on the mortgage when the owner cannot make the mortgage payments.

The preapprove short sale as you can see from above is one that has an approval in advance on real estate selling for less than the mortgage debt. For more information on preapproved short sales check the short sale preapproval site.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

FHA Manual the 4155

I found the fha manual online. It is a PDF version of the fha 4155.1 or 4155. There have since been some reviews of the FHA handbook around the internet. The FHA Manual is also called the FHA Handbook. All in all it is an extraordinary FHA rule that all FHA mortgage loans are covered by direct endorsement underwriter's interpretation of the FHA 4155.1

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Judgment or Judgement

Let's define judgment (or judgement).

Official decision of a court given at the end of a trial. In civil cases, a judgment determines the respective rights and claims of the parties involved. In criminal cases, judgment includes the pronouncement of guilt (or its absence) and, if the defendant is convicted, the sentence. A judgment may also include the reasoning forming the basis of the court's decision. It may be cited as an authority, and treated as a precedent for other similar cases. Also called order. Also spelled as judgement.

This is an interesting subject and we will get to the deficiency judgment protion of the foreclosure aspect of this study soon. For now, keep in mind that a judgment is not a good thing if you are the defendant but it is a postitive thing for the plaintiff creditor in a foreclosure action. That is if they are the prevailing party in a foreclosure and a re attempting to recover a deficiency balance through the award of a deficiency judgment (or judgment) in a court of law.