Posts Tagged ‘HAMP’
VL in Hawaii sent this interesting insight into the Saxon Mortgage – Ocwen transition as it pertains to HAMP modifications and interest due. The report said: “It took almost one year from May 2009 for Saxon to work my Loan Modification under the HAMP.
DH in Wisconsin said: “Like so many others, my husband and I were having trouble making our mortgage payments and received a letter from Saxon threatening Foreclosure. We did not want to loose our home so we called Saxon hoping that we had other options.
PHILADELPHIA, Sep 14, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The law firm of Berger & Montague, P.C. has filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of all Michigan homeowners whose mortgage loans have been serviced by Saxon Mortgage Services, Inc. and/or Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC (collectively “Defendants”), and who, since April 13, 2009, (1) have entered into a Trial Period Plan (“TPP”) contract with Defendants and made all payments as required by their TPP contract and complied with Defendants’ requests for documentation, and (2) have not received or have been denied a permanent Home Affordable Modification Agreement that complied with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Home Affordable Modification Program (“HAMP”) rules.
HAMP was started in February 2009 by the Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency after the foreclosure crisis. Under the plan, at least $75 billion was directed to participating mortgage-servicing companies to help financially distressed mortgage-holders modify their mortgages.
A class action lawsuit has been filed in Federal Court in New York against Saxon Mortgage Services Inc., the Morgan Stanley mortgage servicer division, for failing to fulfill its obligations under the federally-sponsored Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) to homeowners in financial distress.