Don't go into a Gun Battle with a Butter Knife (Part 2)

If your like millions of Americans still trying to get a loan modification, you can identify with the frustrations of your lender losing documentation and not returning phone calls. Unfortunately your bank is not your friend and you have to fight to get the best terms for your modification.

In a previous post, click here to read, I showed you how to properly package your documents and get it into the right hands at your lender to get you modified. Without getting your loan modification submitted correctly in the first place, you will join the legions of thousands of homeowners running around in a circle.

Don't Go into a Gun Battle with a Butter Knife (Part 1)

Who can believe that after four years homeowners and their lenders are still trying to get on the same page when it comes to dealing with underwater mortgages. Several programs by the government like the HAMP and HAFA programs meant well but was met with opposition from lenders and servicers.

Without any strict enforcement, lenders and servicers have sent distressed homeowners in a never ending circle of frustrating processes to get loans modified. While the government had high goals of modifying over 20 million loans over the past four years, only a fraction of that really occurred.