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If you have mortgage or default problems, or are trying to avoid foreclosure:

The resources on this page are intended to help you research and answer questions you might have about mortgages, foreclosures, and mortgage default in Arizona.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development makes these recommendations if you are having trouble keeping up with your mortgage payments or have received a notice from your lender asking you to contact them.

Don't ignore the letters from your lender
Contact your lender immediately
Contact a HUD-approved Housing Counseling Agency
Toll FREE (800) 569-4287
TTY (800) 877-8339

State Directories of HUD-approved Housing Counseling Agencies

State-by-State Mortgage Forclosue Help

The full text of the HUD recommendations is available at (HUD) Tips for Avoiding Foreclosure

Information and help about Avoiding Foreclosure, Foreclosure Help, Mortgage Problems and Default:

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Falling Behind on Your Mortgage Payments?

source: Fannie Mae
languages: English
from the web page: "...If you take action now, you improve your chances of working out your situation with your mortgage lender or loan servicer. For example, depending on your situation, you may be able to incorporate missed or late payments into future payments, re-work the terms of your loan, or refinance into a different loan with payments you can more readily handle. The important thing is to take action immediately...

FHA Web page:
You Can Avoid Foreclosure and Keep Your Home

source: Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
languages: English
from the web page:"...Losing a home can be financially and personally devastating. Here's information to help you keep your home. Relief may be available....

more from Federal Housing Administration (FHA):
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FHA Foreclosure Moratoriums - Case Specific Foreclosure Holds -
languages: English
from the web page: "Lenders may receive notices from the Department requiring a temporary hold on foreclosure for the loans listed. This action, when taken, is necessary to allow sufficient time for HUD to complete its review of the subject loans relative to Predatory lending or other issues..."

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Tips for Avoiding Foreclosure

source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
languages: English
from the web page: "...Are you having trouble keeping up with your mortgage payments? Have you received a notice from your lender asking you to contact them?...

more from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD):
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HUD Help for Homeowners Facing the Loss of Their Home -
languages: English
from the web page: "Owning a home has always been at the center of the American Dream. For many homeowners, however, that dream is threatened by foreclosure. An estimated 240,000 families can avoid foreclosure by refinancing their mortgages using the new FHASecure plan..."

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HUD Relief Options for FHA Loans
languages: English
from the web page: "Homeowners falling behind on an FHA loan should know that..."

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About Foreclosure

source: Homeownership Preservation Foundation
languages: English
from the web page: "What is foreclosure? Foreclosure is a legal action used by a mortgage company to recover any money from a customer when the customer does not pay his or her debt in accordance with the mortgage agreement. In other words, it's the legal remedy used by a mortgage company ...

also at Homeownership Preservation Foundation:
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Common Myths About Foreclosure
languages: English
from the web page: "MYTH: My mortgage company would rather foreclose on my home than keep me in it. The mortgage company sustains an average loss of about $58,000 when foreclosure occurs (TowerGroup study). They are in the business of providing mortgages - not owning or selling homes - and would always prefer to keep you in your home...."

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Questions and Answers on Home Foreclosure and Debt Cancellation

source: Internal Revenue Service
languages: English
from the web page: "Update Feb. 4, 2008 - The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 generally allows taxpayers to exclude income from the discharge of debt on their principal residence. Debt reduced through mortgage restructuring, as well as mortgage debt forgiven in connection with a foreclosure, qualify for this relief...

web page:
Avoiding Foreclosure

source: MyMoneyManagement.net
languages: English
from the web page: "...The foreclosure spiral -- The foreclosure spiral begins when your loan payment becomes 16 days overdue. At that point, your mortgage servicer will try to contact you to work out a repayment schedule to bring your loan current. …If your first payment becomes 30 days delinquent and the next month's payment looks doubtful, collection attempts begin in earnest. If your payments fall 90 days behind, the servicer will likely refer your mortgage to an attorney or other entity that will initiate formal foreclosure proceedings. Here's a timeline of the foreclosure spiral...

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Providing Alternatives to Mortgage Foreclosure: A Report to Congress (August 1996, 200 p.)

source: HUD USER - Policy Development and Research's Information Service
languages: English
from the web page: "The report notes that some States permit quick foreclosure, which acts as a disincentive to loan workouts. It recommends that credit risk-bearing agencies, such as Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae, provide better incentives for loan servicers to initiate loan modifications and forbearances....

also at HUD USER - Policy Development and Research's Information Service :
web page
Alternatives To Foreclosure
languages: English
from the web page: "...Mortgage foreclosure is a tragic and traumatic event for any homeowner. It is the legal process whereby property rights to one's home are stripped away due to inability to maintain the obligations of a mortgage loan. The actual process varies by State of residence, and can take anywhere from 6 weeks to 18 months, depending on the jurisdiction...."

Special Programs to help in mortgage default and mortgage problems

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Helping Homeowners Keep Their Home

source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
languages: English
from the web page: "...Under the new FHASecure plan, FHA will allow families with strong credit histories who had been making timely mortgage payments before their adjustable rate mortgage reset, but are now in default, to qualify for refinancing..."

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FHASecure Fact Sheet - Refinance Options

source: Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
languages: English
from the web page: "...YOU WORKED HARD FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP - The Federal Housing Administration has helped millions of Americans secure their dream of homeownership since 1934. Now we want to keep those dreams alive...."

also at Federal Housing Administration (FHA):
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FHASecure Frequently Asked Questions for Homeowners
languages: English
from the web page: "Eligibility How far behind can you be on a mortgage to qualify? What about more than 90 days? Must I be delinquent, and for a certain period of time, in order to be eligible for FHASecure? I have a fixed rate mortgage and have fallen on bad times. What about me? I have an interest-only mortgage. Am I eligible for FHASecure? Are there any programs for people already in foreclosure..."

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The FHASecure Initiative and Guidance on Appraisal Practices in Declining Markets
languages: English
from the web page: "...The Federal Housing Administration is pleased to announce an initiative that will enable homeowners to refinance various types of adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) that have recently "reset." This mortgagee letter describes how lenders and homeowners may refinance mortgages that, due to the increased mortgage payment following the reset, have become delinquent. ..."

Help with Predatory Lending

Mortgage Refinancing Programs and Information

web site:
The FHA Refinance Process

source: Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
languages: English
from the web page: "... You already own a home, so you're at least somewhat familiar with the mortgage process. If you've never refinanced through FHA you might think that it's more complicated because you're involved with a government agency. Well, you'll be pleasantly surprised to learn that refinancing with an FHA loan is really no different than than the process of refinancing with any other loan. Of course, you have many more protections and it will be easier to get qualified with FHA....."

also at Federal Housing Administration (FHA):
web page
How Much Can I Refinance With My FHA Mortgage?
languages: English
from the web page: "...If you're thinking about refinancing, you've already been through the mortgage qualification process when you qualified for a conventional mortgage or for an FHA mortgage. The kind of refinance loan you're looking for will determine whether you need to go through the credit-qualifying process again...."

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Avoiding foreclosure, foreclosure help, mortgage default

Foreclosures, Mortgage Help NEWS

Relief for Borrowers

source: The Washington Post

March 3, 2008
"IT'S MUCH easier to identify well-intentioned housing policy proposals that might make the situation worse than to craft ones that will help..."

Can the Mortgage Crisis Swallow a Town?

source: The New York Times

September 2, 2007; By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
"Maple Heights, Ohio - TAMMI and Charles Eggleston never took out a risky mortgage, never borrowed more than they could afford and never missed a monthly payment on their neat, three-bedroom colonial in the Cleveland suburbs ..."

How Bad Will the Mortgage Crisis Get?

source: Time Inc

Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008 By JANET MORRISSEY
"A number of economists and banking industry experts believe the subprime crisis could metamorphose into the biggest debacle to hit the sector since the savings and loan catastrophe of the 1980s..."

Bill Would Set Foreclosure Moratorium

source: The New York Times

March 3, 2008; By MANNY FERNANDEZ
"The Bush administration recently announced a plan to delay foreclosures for some troubled homeowners for 30 days. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, has called for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures..."

FA sensible way to deal with subprime crisis

source: Lynchburg News & Advance

"...Working with the banking and mortgage industries in Virginia, Kaine last week announced a plan to slow the foreclosure process for people who find themselves in danger of losing their homes. And it doesn’t cost the Virginia taxpayer a thing..."

Getting real about resolving the U.S. mortgage crisis

source: International Herald Tribune

February 27, 2008 "...Congress should insist that borrowers be given a chance to modify their mortgages under bankruptcy court protection before it even thinks of asking taxpayers to pay for the mortgage mess. Under current law, borrowers cannot rework the mortgages on primary homes in bankruptcy proceedings..."

Freddie Mac loss swells as mortgage crisis deepens

source: SABAH Newspaper English Edition - MERKEZ GAZETE DERGI BASIM YAYINCILIK SANAYI VE TICARET A.S

February 29, 2008 "Freddie Mac, the second-biggest provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, said on Thursday its loss widened to a record $2.5 billion in the fourth quarter as the housing crisis worsened. A sharper-than-expected drop in home prices that first sparked a crisis in subprime lending last summer has since tainted all types of mortgages, hurting Freddie Mac's and rival Fannie Mae's ability to support the housing market...."

HSBC 'to unveil $16bn writedown'

source: BBC NEWS

Sunday, 2 March 2008 "...The firm's annual results out on Monday will show that the bad debt charge is mostly related to the crumbling US housing market and consumer blues..."

Russia's Central Bank suffers losses in U.S. mortgage crisis

source: RIA Novosti - Russia

MOSCOW, February 28 (RIA Novosti) "Russia's Central Bank admitted Thursday having U.S. subprime mortgage bonds in its investment portfolio and said it had suffered losses following last November's credit crunch. ..."

EDITORIAL: Solution to mortgage crisis not fair to all

source: The Daily Telegram

Thursday, February 28, 2008 "Federal Reserve Board efforts to reduce interest rates so far have not helped home buyers who went far out on a financial limb through adjustable rate borrowing. And, as President George W. Bush said today, a Democratic plan in the U.S. Senate isn’t the answer..."

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Avoiding Foreclosure & Mortgage Default Help: A Consumer's Guide to Resources
A consumer's guide to resources about avoiding foreclosure and help with mortgage problems, mortgage default and news about the mortgage crisis, with directories of HUD-approved Housing Counseling Agencies

Avoiding and living with foreclosure, mortgage default and mortgage problems

Information and help about Avoiding Foreclosure, Foreclosure Help, Mortgage Problems and Default:

Special Programs to help in mortgage default and mortgage problems

Help with Predatory Lending

Mortgage Refinancing Programs and Information

Avoiding foreclosure, foreclosure help, mortgage default

topics: Avoiding foreclosure, mortgage default, foreclosure help, mortgage problems, mortgage counseling, HUD-approved Housing Counseling Agencies, foreclosure assistance

Avoiding Foreclosure & Mortgage Default Help: A Consumer's Guide to Resources A consumer's guide to resources about avoiding foreclosure and help with mortgage problems, mortgage default and news about the mortgage crisis, with directories of HUD-approved Housing Counseling Agencies

Avoiding and living with foreclosure, mortgage default and mortgage problems

Information and help about Avoiding Foreclosure, Foreclosure Help, Mortgage Problems and Default:

Special Programs to help in mortgage default and mortgage problems

Help with Predatory Lending

Mortgage Refinancing Programs and Information

Avoiding foreclosure, foreclosure help, mortgage default

Avoiding Foreclosure & Mortgage Default Help: A Consumer's Guide to Resources
A consumer's guide to resources about avoiding foreclosure and help with mortgage problems, mortgage default and news about the mortgage crisis, with directories of HUD-approved Housing Counseling Agencies