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What Winter Haven Homeowners Should Know About FHA Streamline Refinance Loans

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Winter Haven, Florida homeowners face many reasons to refinance their mortgage loan.  Bills never stop coming in, and high mortgage payments often push otherwise solid borrowers into very difficult situations.  Are you in this predicament?  Do you need a way to lower your mortgage payment? If so, then take it!  It’ll do you and your family a load of good.

Allow Me to Introduce You to the FHA Streamline Refinance

If you have an FHA mortgage, and you’re in need of lowering your payments, then you really need to consider an FHA streamline refinance.   FHA streamline refinancing will allow you  to reduce the interest rate on your current home loan, and it can be done quickly.  The best part… it doesn’t require you to get another appraisal!

Opting for this kind of refinance method will spare you with the tons of paperwork needed by your lender”speeding up the process, which saves you time and money.

How do you qualify for an FHA Streamlined Refinancing?

Here’s what you need to know:

  1. Your mortgage must be already insured by the FHA
  2. You must have a current mortgage and not delinquent
  3. The refinance is to result in a lowering of the borrower’s monthly principal and interest payments
  4. No cash may be taken out on mortgages refinanced using the streamline refinance process

You should know that lenders offer different types of FHA streamline refinancing.

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The Making Home Affordable Refinance and Modification Program – Are You Eligible?

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Making Home Affordable Program - Are You Eligible?Florida is dealing with a record number of foreclosures, and many homeowners are looking to the   Making Home Affordable Refinance and Loan Modification program as a way to help them avoid this fate.

When the program was first announced in February, it had two main objectives:

  1. To help financially-needy homeowners get mortgage relief
  2. To help homeowners who’ve lose equity qualify for today’s low rates

Amidst high anticipation, the U.S. Treasury issued a press release providing some new details about the Making Home Affordable program. It also created an  ”Am I Eligible For Making Home Affordable” form on its website.

In the press release,  the Treasury detailed the President’s original blueprint:   To provide explicit loan modification instructions for assisting as many as 4 million delinquent homeowners and their respective mortgage servicers.

As is often the case with any such government effort, the documentation for Making Home Affordable is some 17 pages long.   Luckily, it provides detail to merit its length – as the document’s text leaves very little question about the loan modification process and how it must be administered.

But for all this detail, the document fails to lay out in clear fashion a plan of action for the nearly 5 million homeowners for whom deteriorating home equity has rendered refinancing impossible.

For these Americans, the Treasury instead offers a basic Q&A and directs homeowners to call Fannie Mae and/or Freddie Mac to confirm their eligibility. The “refinance plan,” in short, says that  a homeowner who has paid his mortgage as agreed and whose home value is “about the same or less” as the amount owed on his first mortgage may be eligible.

That’s about as much as the Treasury will offer up.   Clear as mud, right?

If after browsing the website, you still have questions about the Making Home Affordable program, call your mortgage lender with specific questions.

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