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Government Loan Mod Assistance is Just Problems.

Its sad that the government says they are gonna help people with loan mods. Read this article on the problems they are having and how most people end up talking with Collection Depts.

Full Story: Penetrating the Maze of Mortgage Relief

MORTGAGE TROUBLE? LOAN MOD, SHORT SALE OR BANKRUPTCY?

Many people ask me when they get into mortgage trouble; Should I do a Loan Modification, Short Sale or Bankruptcy?

For a FREE phone consultation, to see if you may qualify for a Loan Modification, call me at 702-997-5747 or email chrisvoss11@gmail.com

If you're having hardship problems with your mortgage, here is the 1st three things you should do, in order of attempting first to last:

1. See if you qualify for a Loan Modification. You can try personally asking your Mortgage Lender do a Loan Modification on your loan. Keep in mind many people have cited frustration with this process. The company will usually keep sending them to the Collections Dept. whose best interest is NOT to reduce the loan and see if they can shake any money out of the borrower with pressure. Collection Agents are judged on a per forma basis, so they dont really have the borrowers full interest at heart in my opinion. In the end a Mortgage company tends to respond better to Loan Modification Attorney letters for obvious reasons.

Reason for Loan Modification: Best chance you have of renegotiating your mortgage and STAYING in your home. In a few years, hopefully as the market recovers, you can refinance out of the troubled loan.

2. Short Sale is the next step. If you cannot qualify for a Loan Modification. A Realtor can help you accomplish a short sale on your home. Usually, not qualifying for a Loan Mod means that your income has fallen to a point you cannot afford the home your living in.

Reason for Short Sale: A short sale is great for getting you out of your mortgage loan and out of an upside down equity home. Even better, depending on your credit, it keeps foreclosure off your credit and makes it easier for you to buy another home in the future.

3. Bankruptcy: A Bankruptcy will affect your credit for 10 years and should be a last ditch effort. Its likely if you cant qualify for a Loan Modification on reduced income, the Bankruptcy Court will also determine you cannot afford the home. You have the highest likely hood of losing your home in a Chapter 7, which most people file. A Chapter 13 is a payment plan and a 7 is a liquidation of assets. In some cases you can lose cars or other equitable assets. ***REMEMBER - Filing a Bankruptcy MAY NOT save your home, your credit is stigmatized and it will be harder to get a home loan because of it. CREDIT STANDARDS HAVE GOTTEN TIGHTER. LENDERS HAVE CHANGED BANKRUPTCY GUIDELINES, ITS FAR HARDER NOW MORE THAN EVER TO GET A MORTGAGE WITH A BK IN YOUR PAST. Also note BK's may not wipe out IRS or Government debts. If after consulting with an Attorney, he determines you have a good chance of keeping your home, you might be ok but keep in mind, there are NO guarantees its up to the Court and the Trustee.

Reasons for a Bankruptcy: Get a complete "do over" on all your debts and wipe the slate clean. It may take you years in this credit environment to rebuild your credit, but I would recommend it as a last ditch effort.


I personally work with a successful Loan Modification company and I can tell you if you most likely qualify for a Loan Modification.For a FREE phone consultation to see if you may qualify for a Loan Modification call me at 702-997-5747 or email chrisvoss11@gmail.comIf you dont qualify I can refer you to some great Short Sale Realtors and Attorneys.

Why should GM Live?

On Monday Americans will own 70% of GM, Government help is set to jump to $70 billion. This for a company that doesnt even have a billion dollar market capitalization.

Everyone can argue whether saving GM is bad or good. I wish somebody would have done an extensive research on the loss to the economy. I'd have loved have see what the dollar figure in loss would be.

The bottom line is compared to what overseas manufacturers have done, American cars are crap. Blame whomever you want, managment, unions, bottom line the quality sucks. The reason they lost market share for so many decades is because of their lack of quality. Americans finally gave out on the loyalty over horribly made autos, for their rival overseas manufacture. Its been a fact GM and the Unions have ignored forever.

I've owned 3 BMW's and in my opinion they are some of the best cars on the planet. Ive abused those cars and done things with them your not supposed to do to any car. My friends who own American cars, spend more time at service bays stops than I've done changing oil. Much the same with the Japanese. BMW builds one line of cars, thats all they do. Japanese car makers usually have 3 standards of car type each. Heres what they do, they focus on building a few good quality cars.

GM at one time had a gaggle of car brand names. Then they bought every other car company they could. Then they started their own competition Saturn. I remember in the 90's getting into a Cadillac a friend owned and all it was was dressed up basic GM model with a Cadillac logo on it. No real improvement, fake wood veneer, power interior, nicer seats. Other than that same shit base model Chevy car. In the end they lost focus of the most important facts in American business: Do it well with quality.

So in the end all this money may be wasted unless GM can get back to one thing better - BUILD QUALITY CARS. And by Quality I also mean fuel efficient.

Other Shoe Drops - Job Losses Push Safer Mortgages to Foreclosure

Just when you thought mortgage foclosures on bad credit loans had peaked, now comes the bad economy really hitting the pavement. Just when Middle Class Americans were on life support, comes the new painful diagnosis. Being at the forefront of the mortgage and Loan Mod industry I've seen this coming a mile a way. Few economists seem to predict its drag on elongating this downturn lasting. Drive into any neighborhood and you can hear the ticking...homes on a fuse...with good borrowers. Right now, 30%+ of the homes in my neighboorhood are up for sale or empty bank owned. At one point you could sit up at night and listen to what sounded like the crickets chirping away. Only its not the crickets, its the symphony of empty home with dead battery fire alarms chirping away. I have lists of good borrowers who've schlepped away so far with their original over extenuation of credit, by any means necessary. Tax refunds helped alot of them catch up mortgage payments. In the end they admit they are dragging on the inevitable demise of default.

What most economists seem to fail to notice, that my lead base does, is that the process is not only fluid by staggered levels based on when high risk mortgages come due and when the seepage runs into healthy mortgages on a sour economy saturation point. Connecting Job losses, auto bankruptcies, impending Credit Card defaults...I hear plenty of stories of people making last ditch efforts to attempt to save lost income and jobs, starting their own business' etc. Going for bust in a "gamble it all" within 30 days of missing their first mortgage payment. We're still warming up on what was predicted to be the worst year in foreclosures. And Economists tell us the economy will recover when? The stock market is doing well and hit bottom in March, but its always and advancement bet on the future a year or 2 from now. What is real is in the neighborhoods, the people who did the American way, now crying on the phone, sometimes asking for help no one can give them. Most people who call me for loan modification cant even qualify their income is to low. This means more short sales and liquidation of American wealth. There is no quickly rebounding economy cause we're consumer driven and they have no money. The future landscape of America is going to be different. Question is how different?

If you know someone short selling their home, make sure they do a Loan Mod first to stay in the home. A forensic audit of their loan is next. If not a short sale and then if they can bankruptcy. 60% of mortgage companies CANNOT produce the NOTE contract on their mortgages. Under Contractual Law these people have a right to stay in their homes if proof of Contract cannot be provided to a court. If you have questions please call me. Dont let people get tossed into the street.

Full Story: Job Losses Push Safer Mortgages to Foreclosure

Signature Wealth Management - Rick Haskell’s economic and market commentary

Check out Rick Haskell's Signature Wealth Management Blog. For Wealth Management, the Stock Market and Common Sense its one of the smartest advisory blogs I read.

Check out his recent Blog on:
- Beware of Extremes
- Stress Tests May Have Revealed, But Offer A Lesson In Finance
- It’s not that easy – this is still a risky market

"For some reason, in our society many of us choose to gravitate to extremes when what once worked doesn’t appear to be working now..."

Read Full Story: Signature Wealth Management - Rick Haskell’s economic and market commentary

First-time buyers benefit from housing slump

"While America’s declining home values have wrought havoc on home sellers, owners and lenders, first-time buyers can celebrate the housing market bust, and may even help fix it. The Realtors' group expects first-timers to account for the majority of home sales through the remainder of 2009."

Full Story: First-time buyers benefit from housing slump

Medical Advances galore, imagine the world 10-20 years from now with replacable parts. Now Japanese claim build parts in sheep.

Full Story: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6222361.ece

Where Home Prices Crashed Early, Signs of a Rebound

Thanks to the NY Times for covering something I said at beginning of year we've started a housing rebound.

Full Story: Where Home Prices Crashed Early, Signs of a Rebound

California Joins Florida in Housing Recovery

And some said I was crazy when I said the Real Estate market was close to a bottom and seeds of recovery in real estate had started a few months ago.

California Joins Florida in Housing Recovery
As the worst recession in a generation grips the nation, home buyers are coming out in numbers that haven´t been seen in years in California, which is joining Florida as the second state to pull into a housing recovery, according to a new report by Housing Predictor dot com.

Full Story: California Joins Florida in Housing Recovery

Barry Schwartz TED speech - Awesome!

TONY ROBBINS TED SPEECH

90 people get the swine flu everyone is wearing face masks Millions of people have AIDS no one wears Condoms!

90 people get the swine flu everyone is wearing face masks Millions of people have AIDS no one wears Condoms!

More Homes in California Are Selling

Seeds of recovery in Real Estate

Full Story: More Homes In Cali Selling

Twitter Poll - If Twitter had a Smell?

Twitter Poll - If Twitter had a smell - what would it be? Anyone?
Results:
-@chrisdocstrange Body Odour & Pretzels
-@pbuttrcup Peanut Butter!
-@bad_moose an Amway product
-@EileenSchreiber NYC!
-@TimeForLife Like a carnival maybe?
-@AustinAaron Twitter would smell like the locker room at a strip club. And probably sound like it, too. That, or a urinal @ a KISS concert. (I love this one!)
-@freelancesquad whatever a broke popular person smells like:)
-@BulkyWebEU depends on the twitterers.each account would have different smell IMHO
-@maryegilmore like walking through the fragrance bays at major dept stores. quick hits of different brands.
-@ColoradoFoothil it would smell like arse :)
-@urbancrafter it would smell like the 4th of July - a mixture of watermelon, sulpher, BBQ, green summer grass and beer. Is that a smell?
-@Chrisvoss Like a beautiful honey dew morning mist...mixed with the smell of NFL players post game taint! lol.
-@KaliforniaKelly Would it be chicken...lol?
-@krystynchong fresh raindrops & warm blueberries...
-@elleayceo i would have to say twitter would smell congested .. haha
-@ShannonGrissom Fresh cut grass
-@bad_moose it's still Amway
-@ManyaS Like Woodstock meets the Stock Exchange
-@dlorenzo roses in a dumpster.
-@LisaMLoeffler Twitter would smell like citrus. warm, edible, zingy, seedy, sweet, tough, juicy, fruity, piquant, and good w/a drink.
-@las_vegas_grl83 fritos, redbull and stale beer aroma?
-@Jmadams03 Blueberry muffins??? (via @timwhitehomes).{Hmm-I like blueberry}
-@CandyGirlCeCe freshly baked chocolate chip cookies sitting nicely in Tyson Beckfords lap...mmmmmmm
-@annmariebelair Sheer White Cotton.....!!!!
-@Chrug Grand Central OPEN AIR / Inside Type of smell waiting on your train :)
-@tomob POPCORN!
-@Joyarogers the tweetist smell ever!
-@fvongraf like sweaty used car salesmen and celebrity perfume.
-@RealtyShark a strange mix of sweat, coins, roses, and hope
-@tvamy fresh baked cookies and gasoline
-@OhioRealtor A Twinky
-@MrJavo the smell of the wind O.O
-@losewt4life peppermint sayz me. Fun question!
-@GrowthSolutions a dragster doing a burn out .The smell of burning rubber as it moves at the speed of an electron.
-@Retnev freshly brewed coffee :-)
-@tadahmom English Muffins - Oh no, not that, that's what smell is in my house right now. I think it would smell like a mix of colognes.
-@buddycheeks Lol...I smell money on twitter
-@aryegilmore twitter would smell like walking through the fragrance bays at major dept stores. quick hits of different brands
-@imkukral like money...billions of it fading away from productivity lost.
-@birdsall is excitement a smell? If not, than maybe grass mixed with vanilla.
-@EmoryHill Remember the smell of a new cassette tape?
-@virtuallin Hmm,I'd have to say cotton candy'cause it's so fun,cute & sticky
-@devonbrown licorice.
-@BarbaraDuke Peaches
-@bolora bird cage
-@MrInfamy smell of weed or better yet new sneakers
-@CreativeSales on who is doing the Tweeting. Some r rosey, some are fertilizer.
-@bizwhig it would be the smell of a clear summer day after a thunderstorm;clean,crisp, refreshing....don't you think??
_ warm vanilla
**Sometimes they get by me if u dont see yours posted let me know.

Vegas Valley home prices tumble to 2001 levels - Business - ReviewJournal.com

Wow This is interesting if home prices correct back to pre boom values, or less - wow.

Full Story: Valley home prices tumble to 2001 levels - Business - ReviewJournal.com

Banking Behind the Scenes Shown By Fed

You know all the people who claim there's black helicopters behind the banks etc have ran their 60 year old New World ideas across my desk.

I think the biggest problem with the crisis is US Regulators need a better PR agent. There are alot of negotiations and bloodletting going on. This story shows the background of whats really going on. I think if more people understood this there would be a little less anger but anger appropriate still.

Full Story: Regulators Fell One Bank, Spare a Rival

Study Says Nation’s Housing Market Undervalued

It may be but with the new wave of released moratorium homes that may be wrong - plus the shadow inventory - see prior blog.

Full Story: Study Says Nation’s Housing Market Undervalued

Banks Likely Face $400 Billion More in Losses, JPMorgan Says

The other shoe cometh: “Given the amount of losses still to come, we believe the system will need more government capital,” the analysts wrote. “Healthier institutions may not need more and may try to raise capital from the private sector.”

Full Story: Banks Likely Face $400 Billion More in Losses, JPMorgan Says