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Loan Servicers Work the Fine Print in Obama Foreclosure Plan

By | 07.30.09 | 6:00 am

Even as the Obama administration presses the lending industry to get more mortgage loans modified, the practice of forcing borrowers to sign away their legal rights in order to get their loans reworked is a tactic that some servicers just won’t give up on.

Waivers requiring borrowers to More…

Borrowers to Keep Legal Rights Under Foreclosure Plan

By | 02.10.09 | 5:29 pm

Now that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has unveiled his bank rescue plan, the Obama administration says it will turn next to setting up a fast-track way to stop the foreclosure crisis with national standards for loan modifications. The new standards – which will expand More…