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if i owe more than my home is worth, can i restructure my loan to reflect its present value?

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July 27 - Elk Grove
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Reasonably Foreseeable/Imminent Default: Every potentially eligible borrower who calls or writes to their service provider in reference to a modification must be screened for hardship. This screen must ascertain whether the borrower has had a change in circumstances that causes financial hardship, or is facing a recent or imminent increase in the payment that is likely to create a financial hardship (Payment Shock). If the borrower reports a material change in circumstances, the sevicer must ask about current income and assets, and current expenses as well as the specific circumstances relating to the claimed financial hardship. Each of these elements must be verified through documentation. Again the Hardship (Sad) Letter will be very critical in this process. If the servicer determines that a non-defaulted borrower facing a financial hardship is in Imminent Default and will be unable to make his or her mortgage payments in the immediate future, the servicer must apply the NPV Test (Net Present Value). A standard NPV Test will be required on each loan that is in Imminent Default or is at least 60 days delinquent under the MBA (Mortgage Bankers Association) delinquency calculation. This NPV Test will compare the net present value (NPV) of the cash flows expected from the modification to the net present value of the cash flows expected in the absence of modification. If the NPV of the modification scenario is greater, the NPV result is deemed positive. If the NPV Test result is negative and Home Affordable Modification is not pursued, the lender/investor must seek other foreclosure prevention alternatives, including alternative modification programs, deed-in-lieu of sales and short sales programs.  There is much more information available on this program which you can find by going on www.hud.gov. What you can conclude is that this program has placed a much greater emphasis on such instruments as a Broker Price Opinion and the Hardship (SAD) Letter. 
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July 27
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You want your cake and you want to eat it too. Just tell the bank you want to give the house back. or rent it back .
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when you find the lender willing to just eat the upset down loans call me.
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It all depends on your hardship if your doing a loan modification, but there are no promises up front on the principal reductions all up to banks descretion.  And if you are tring a short refinance, most banks won't touch them.  They all say they will sell them to some other bank but no banks wants to pick up the bad asset.  If you find a bank that actually does one and doesn't just say they do but won't you are very lucky.

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What do you mean by Short Payoff? Can you explain it? I don't understand. I am the original poster.

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October 23
You can do a principle reduction or a short payoff. I have been successful doing this in the last one I had a client who owed 190K we ended up getting a short payoff of 90K so he cut his mortgage in half. If you are interested contact me.
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July 28
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long story short - you can't redo your loan just because you don't like the property value dropping.

there was never any deal that said your home would be a cash cow and that you were guaranteed to make hundreds of thousands off it. 

If you overpaid, you overpaid.
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