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Couple of weeks back Obama made the news again, this time for his Obama’s loan modification program. It was focused on one achieved target that it reaches a 500,000 trial loan modifications a month in advance, which is November. Though the critics acclaim that this achievement had little significance. There are still foreclosures taking place and it is not going to stop foreclosures.

If we look at the good part about this program, we see that this achievement has not come without cajoling Loan Modification Companies here and there. The first few months saw hardly any loan modification, so slow that many started to believe that this target would not even be met. But if there are 500,000 families with lower mortgage repayments, no one can call it anything, less than good. So many mortgage payments have been lowered. This process seems faster than the foreclosures. Around forty percent of all the qualifying homeowners have benefitted from this program. This comes up to 1.2 million of homeowners.

On the other hand, on the not so greener side of the picture economists claim that there is no way that millions of people will not lose their homes before this down turn ends. Again, this home loan modification is only on trial basis that is if the owner is not able to pay one of the payments in the first three months then it would be void. If the owner is able to survive this trial period, then he has to submit more papers for modify mortgage and then technically it will not allow the loans to be modified.

Again there is no record known to us about how many people’s loan repayment period was extended, how many of them got decreased rates of interest, or how many people could lower their principal balance. For the record, it is important that you try and decrease your principle amount of your loan. It is worrisome situation since loan modification cannot help if people are out of work and are not able to repay at all. One can only say the situation is far from being solved.

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