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How Good Are Your Chances For a Loan Modification?

There is nothing more powerful than a forensic loan audit to stop a foreclosure, stall a foreclosure, or prevent a foreclosure, and then successfully bring loan modifications to the homeowner. The success rate using Tila Solutions is greater than any other approach currently known.

Let’s see how this rates against other common approaches taken.

Scenario One: You contact the bank, fax in the documents they request so that you can see if you qualify for a loan mod. Happily you go to work waiting to hear the results. The results are in: You’ve just picked up a foreclosure notice on your door. And, there are letters claiming the bank never received your documents for a loan mod in your mailbox. The cost of the foreclosure is being added to your mortgage, and you are being told that you have so many days to cure the default or foreclosure will begin. You don’t have the several thousand dollars to cure the default and you lose your home: 100% failure rate for a loan mod in this scenario. You never even had a fighting chance: You didn’t have a Forensic Audit. You didn’t have anybody to ensure the bank actually did their job.

Scenario Two: You’ve done a good bit of research on the internet and learned that the banks are being accused all the time of fraud. In fact you’ve concluded they are fraudulent, disorganized, they mislead you and provide false hope. You can’t help but feel betrayed and distrusting as you research and learn how they lose papers, constantly find fault with you, and have more ways to disqualify you than you ever imagined.

Thus you are “armed” for success. You contact the bank, put in your request for loan mod and repeatedly call and refax forms until you can no longer figure out how anything could ever be lost so often. With all this hard work, several months pass and finally you are approved for a loan mod, but the terms are completely unacceptable because you needed a lower monthly payment, and the bank rolled in escrows, and put all their fees to the back of the loan, and now you owe much more than the original loan. (and they say loan mod is free?) You won’t be able to afford the payment for long.

But you had some success – if you feel you can call it that: 2% – 10% success rate in this scenario. You are just stuck with what they gave you, and you never really had any negotiating power at all. A forensic Audit could have changed this for you.

Scenario Two A: Despite your terrific intentions, as described above, and while the bank is telling you that they have it all under control, you receive notice from the bank’s lawyers that they are suing you.

Foreclosure has begun. You call the bank back they tell you not to worry; they still “have your back” for loan mod, and reassure you that you don’t need professional help. They (who are charging you for the lawsuit they have brought against you) are “concerned” that you may be paying a professional company to help you and the bank tries to deter you, soothingly convincing you that you can work directly with them. Sadly, you agree to be soothed by the group that is suing you and don’t get professional help. A few weeks pass and you have been disqualified for a loan mod and the bank owns your home. 100% failure rate for loan mod in this scenario. Again, there just was no real fighting chance. The bank mislead you and worse yet they advised you to do things that did not protect you from foreclosure. What would have happened if you had had a forensic audit completed and had somebody who knows how to handle the banks working on your side?

Scenario Three: The Hamp Program. You’ve been prequalified and you know you are going to make it. You make your three payments and you do all your paperwork. Somehow, the three months turns into 9 months, but you actually got the loan mod. 2% to 4% success rate.

Scenario Three A: Despite the above, somehow the bank found a way to take all that money from you and then disqualify you. You are now in foreclosure and worse still they’ve identified all your “missed payments” as reason to go ahead and give you a auction date too. Now you find that you have two weeks until they auction off your home. 100% failure rate for a loan mod in this scenario.

Scenario Four: You hire an attorney and let him deal with it all. 25% to 50% success rate in this scenario. (Most attorneys do not use forensics – sadder still – they think forensic audits are not necessary. How incredulous is that: “No Mr. Homeowner, we don’t need the laws of the land that have been passed since as far back as 1969 to protect you to get the bank to stop misleading, lying, and falsely advising you,” Mr. Attorney replied. – That’s not even a fifty/fifty chance.

Scenario Five: You hire a loan mod company and let them deal with it all 25% to 50% success rate in this scenario. Same thing: No forensic audit. No leverage, no way to truly negotiate – only puppets of the bank.

Scenario Six: You learn there is a company that has the edge – they do forensic loan audits. Then they negotiate new terms with your lender. The banks tell you those companies are scams, the attorneys tell you the same, and of course the loan mod companies tell you that you just need to qualify at the bank and they know how to “make” you qualify so again you don’t need a forensic audit. Yet the people are losing their homes with these attorneys, banks, and or loan mod companies. Homeowners should always arm themselves and never lose sight of the fact that federal laws protect them. Lenders violated them. Attorneys don’t always know those laws and thus can’t work with them, loan mod companies only know how to “bash” those laws.

A Forensic audit is a very precise examination of the federal laws that guide lenders when issuing loans and protect homeowners from ending up on the road to foreclosure. If you are not using them, then your chance of success is dramatically decreased.

Tila Solutions is the premier company for forensic audits. Their success rate for saving homes from foreclosure using forensics, negotiations, and a host of other tools has them elevated to a 90 percentile range. Moreover, Tila Solutions can actually help homeowners who have lost their homes and want them back.

Tila Solutions Consultants are available to discuss your situation and the loan the lender gave you. They’ll look to see if there are any signs of a predatory loan, they’ll review to determine if there have been any predatory actions against you by your lender. They will discuss how to proceed and if foreclosure is becoming a crisis, review options and solutions.

10 tips to securing a home loan

We’ve only got about one page to list these 10 tips for securing a home loan, so let’s jump right into it!

1) Get your credit score up

This is the key rule. Do not even think about getting a home loan until you’ve paid off your debts and worked your credit score up.

2) Get your credit score up

Seriously! What you should do is settle all your old debts, and then cut up all of your credit cards, but one or two. Use those for simple things like buying gas or grocery shopping and then pay them off on time.

3) Live within your means

Credit cards gave birth to a generation of people buying more than they could afford, with many of them winding up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt as a result. Your spending money should be cash only.

4) Make sure the time is right

Sadly, we’re not all ready to own a home. If you don’t have savings and a reliable career, if you’re already in debt, you’ll want to improve your financial standing before going after home ownership.

5) Do your research

Basically, get online and do a lot of reading up on the ins and outs of home loans and the real estate market. If you develop a strong knowledge of the market, you’re more likely to get what you’re after.

6) Know what entices potential lenders

It’s more than just having a nice job and a good credit score. Remember, they do background checks. If you’ve never held a job for more than a year, that’s a turn off for lenders. Other things can help, too. If you have multiple sources of income, let the lender know about them.

7) Never borrow more than you think you can pay off

This is how American homebuyers got into so much trouble last year. They were knowingly borrowing more money than they could repay in the hope that home and land prices would forever appreciate.

8) Be willing to shop around

Don’t grab the first loan anyone will give you. In getting a low interest rate on a loan or mortgage, you’ll want to look around and see who can offer you the best deal. You may get lucky, but don’t count on the first bank you walk into to give you the best overall deal.

9) Don’t buy a pricier house than you need

This is more a tip for actually buying a house than it is for getting a loan, but it can help on that front, too. If you’re a bachelor, what on earth are you going to do with a two story, two and a half bathroom house? Don’t go overboard in selecting your home and the lender probably won’t feel that you’re asking for too much.

10) Don’t be afraid to ask for help

If you need a real estate agent or some expert advice on securing a home loan, then go for it. A qualified home loan professional might save you a vast sum of money.