Mortgage Loan Modifications
Worried About Foreclosure? Modify Your Mortgage Loan
Pembroke Pines Mortgage Loan Modifications
If the bank is threatening to foreclose on your home, don't give up hope. There is an alternative. Attorney Mary Jo Rivero is a Pembroke Pines mortgage loan modification lawyer with over 30+ years of experience working with clients to create options that may help save their home.
Mary Jo Rivero, P.A. serves English and Spanish-speaking clients from as far as Miami, Hollywood, Weston, Miramar, Fort Lauderdale, and Plantation. Call today at (954) 945-7727 or contact us online for a free consultation.
What Is a Mortgage Loan Modification?
Mortgage loan modifications are one of three ways the terms of a mortgage payment might be altered.
It is different from a forbearance. In a forbearance agreement, mortgage payments are suspended, but will resume. It can apply when the hardship a client is dealing with is short-term.
Loan modifications are also different from refinancing. While a refi can create more favorable terms for the borrower, it is also a process wherein the lender pays off the existing mortgage for the purpose of creating a new one. It can work when the borrower’s financial position is considered strong.
A loan modification is altered terms to the existing agreement. It does not create a new agreement, and the revised terms are good for the length of the mortgage.
Mortgage loan modifications can be ideal for people dealing with sustained financial hardship–the loss of a job is a common reason and large medical bills might be another. Any circumstance that promises to tighten the household budget for the foreseeable future might be helped with a mortgage loan modification.
The hard part can be getting the modification agreement. That’s where an attorney comes in.
How a Pembroke Pines Mortgage Loan Modification Lawyer Can Help
Banks are often reluctant to approve loan modifications. The mere presence of an attorney at a client’s side can have a psychological impact in making the bank at least take the application more seriously. Once the bank is reviewing the application, an experienced lawyer who has been through these types of negotiations before, might be able to work better terms. The new agreement can deal with everything from interest rate to principle to late fees to the term of the loan. There’s plenty of room for bargaining and a good lawyer can help clients make the most of it.
Legal counsel also ensures that paperwork will be filled out correctly. Incomplete applications are not uncommon and a sure way to be ignored by the lender. A lawyer not only takes the burden of this paperwork–and subsequent work that can come after approval of a modification–off the shoulders of the client, but they can also ensure the work is done thoroughly the first time.
Mary Jo Rivero, P.A. understands that financial hardship can come into anyone's life and will work with you to restructure your mortgage payments. Her team can handle negotiations for your mortgage loan modification and offer your lender incentives to help reduce the amount of your payments.
Call the Pembroke Pines office at (954) 945-7727 or contact us online to set up a free consultation.
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