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The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 was introduced in the United States Congress on September 25, 2007, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 20, 2007. This act offers relief to homeowners who would have owed taxes on forgiven mortgage debt after facing foreclosure. The act extends such relief for three years ...
The Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) is a government program introduced in 2009 to respond to the subprime mortgage crisis.HAMP [10] is part of the Making Home Affordable program (MHA), [11] established in concert with the Hardest Hit Fund program (HHF) [12] under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. [13]
Hope Now describes the assistance that it provides to homeowners as loan workouts, a form of loss mitigation. These workouts can either result in establishing a modified repayment plan with the homeowner to bring them up to date, or a loan modification where the terms of the mortgage are modified in order to make the loan serviceable for the ...
If you’re behind on your mortgage payments, you can apply for the Flex Modification program through your lender. If you’re between 90 and 105 days delinquent, though, Fannie Mae and Freddie ...
A homebuyer grant is a type of down payment assistance that provides a one-time cash sum, often in the form of a no-interest second mortgage. The funds don’t have to be repaid. The funds don’t ...
Forgivable loans: A second mortgage you won’t have to pay back so long as you stay in the home for a certain amount of time (the exact period depends on the program) and stay up-to-date with ...
The Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) was established on February 18, 2009 to help up from 7 to 8 million struggling homeowners at risk of foreclosure by working with their lenders to lower monthly mortgage payments. The Program is part of the Making Home Affordable Program which was created by the Financial Stability Act of 2009. [26]
The Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) was created by the Federal Housing Finance Agency in March 2009 to allow those with a loan-to-value ratio exceeding 80% to refinance without also paying for mortgage insurance. Originally, only those with an LTV of 105% could qualify.