Discover how loan modification can help you avoid foreclosure, understand government programs available, and learn the steps to apply effectively.

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 ...

Loan modifications are a long-term mortgage relief option for borrowers experiencing financial hardship, such as loss of income due to illness. A modification typically changes the loan’s rate, term ...

The Flex Modification program helps homeowners experiencing financial hardship to extend their loan term and reduce principal and interest payments. The program can reduce payments by up to 20 percent ...

The Obama Administration is gearing up to play hardball with mortgage companies that only temporarily lower struggling homeowners’ monthly payments. But as the drive to make more loan modifications ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. program aimed at helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure has been oversold by the Treasury Department and is likely to be a failure when it wraps up in 2012, a ...

The federal Home Affordable Modification Program, which is designed to guide the modification process to the benefit of the lender (not the borrower), has helped 12 percent of a potential 3 million ...

Help is available for residents with mobility difficulties who want to stay in their homes. Michaela Grady, a housing planner ...

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 ...

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The fear of layoffs has been strong in the past few years—and for federal workers, that fear only continues to grow. There are also circumstances in which lenders will allow you to redraw up to your ...

WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) - A U.S. program aimed at helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure has been oversold by the Treasury Department and is likely to be a failure when it wraps up in ...