Thursday, October 29, 2009

$8,000 Tax Credit to BUY a Home still in Play!!


NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Confused about whether lawmakers will extend the $8,000 first-time homebuyer credit and what it would look like?


Negotiations about whether and how to extend and expand the tax credit for homebuyers are moving quickly. Here are the latest developments.

That's understandable, since the situation is still very fluid.
Here's where things stand!!

Support for the credit: There is still bipartisan support in Congress for extending the credit past Nov. 30 and making it available to more homebuyers.

Some of the issues still in play: Just how far past Nov. 30, the size of credit and how many more buyers would qualify.

It's still not clear where President Obama stands on the issue. Last week, Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan said the administration wanted to review more data to better assess the cost of the credit before weighing in.

What's on the table now: There appears to be movement toward a compromise deal that falls between the most and least generous proposals that have been put forth so far.

"There is bipartisan compromise to extend the credit through spring and expand it to existing homeowners who are stepping up to a different home," financial policy analyst Jaret Seiberg wrote in a research note for Concept Capital's Research Group.

The latest idea under discussion is a credit worth up to $8,000 for first-time homebuyers and up to $6,500 for homeowners looking to trade up to a bigger primary residence and who have already lived in their current home for five years. (CNN: Senate compromise may be in the works.)

To qualify for the full credit, however, homebuyers must have adjusted gross income of less than $125,000 ($225,000 for married couples filing jointly).

In addition, the credit would only apply to homes sold for $800,000 or less. Contracts to buy a home must be signed by April 30, 2010, and the deals must close by June 30 in order for a buyer to qualify for the credit.

Rationale for extending the credit: Supporters of the credit say it has helped to boost existing home sales in recent months. Extending the credit would help further support sales, stabilize housing prices and generate jobs in the face of an expected rise in foreclosures next year, which is expected to put downward pressure on prices.

If the credit is allowed to expire, they say, the housing market and the broader economy will grow moribund again.

"The most fundamental argument for the credit is that nothing works in the economy if housing is falling -- it hurts household wealth and credit becomes tight," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com. "[The credit] is a good insurance policy. It's vital to stem the housing price declines."

What critics say: Though extending the credit has bipartisan support, it is not without its critics.

Critics, while acknowledging that the credit has helped to generate additional home sales, say it has been poorly targeted and therefore not cost-effective.

They point to estimates that only 10% to 20% of the nearly 2 million homebuyers who will have gotten the credit by Nov. 30 bought solely because of the tax break.

In other words, a large majority of homebuyers who benefited from the credit would have bought their homes without it.

By one economist's estimate, the government may have spent $43,000 for each sale that occurred strictly because of the credit.

In a position paper published this week, the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said making the credit available to existing homeowners would not help stabilize housing prices or reduce inventory

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Rob Ask? Is it time to Dump your ARM??


Some 1.5 million adjustable-rate mortgages reset soon. If yours is one of them, you need to decide whether to lock in your rate and refinance into a new loan.

(Money Magazine) -- If you are among the 6.5 million homeowners who took out a low-rate adjustable-rate mortgage during the housing boom, you've probably spent the past couple of years waiting for your day of reckoning to come.

After all, you've probably heard repeated warnings that when your ARM resets your payments would spike dramatically: an especially big problem if you used a low-rate ARM to stretch for a home you could barely afford.

The good news is that scenario hasn't come to pass. Instead, interest rates have fallen to record lows, and when your ARM resets you'll probably see your monthly nut fall, not rise.

But once the economy stabilizes, the government will start peeling back the policies that are keeping mortgage rates low.

"Eventually rates are going to go up very significantly," says Greg McBride, a senior financial analyst at Bankrate.com. The Mortgage Bankers Association predicts fixed mortgage rates will reach 5.9% by the end of 2010 and 6.3% by the end of 2011.

To see what could happen to your payments later on, look on your mortgage documents to find the cap, or the number of points your rate can move in any given year after the first reset (one or two is typical), as well as the lifetime cap on your loan. Then figure out if you should refinance now and what kind of mortgage you should get if you do.

Stand pat if ...
You plan to move in the next three years. In that case, the few thousand dollars you'll pay to refinance is likely to exceed any extra interest you'll pay on the mortgage before you move.

You have less than 20% equity in your home. If you bought in the past few years and real estate values in your area have taken a big hit, you may not qualify for the best rates. "That makes refinancing less attractive," says Wilton, Conn. mortgage broker Tim Malburg, Homeowners with a jumbo mortgage (more than $417,000 in most areas) are held to an even higher equity standard.

Refi to a 5/1 arm if ...
You'll be in your home for three to five more years. In mid-September, ARMs that were fixed for the first five years cost about half a percentage point less than 30-year fixed-rate loans. Over a five-year period, that could save you almost $10,000 on a $300,000 mortgage.

You have a jumbo loan. These large mortgages can feel like a rip-off right now, since rates for 30-year fixed jumbos are about a percentage point higher than those for smaller loans -- an unusually wide spread, says Keith Gumbinger, vice president at HSH Associates.

That's because the government has been purchasing loans backed by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which has artificially driven down conventional-mortgage rates.

If you need a jumbo mortgage you'd knock about three-quarters of a percentage point off your rate by taking a 5/1 ARM. That would save about $3,300 a year for a half-million-dollar loan.

Refi to a fixed-rate loan if ...
You might be less attractive to a lender later on. If you'll need to take a big loan to pay your kid's college tuition, say, or think you might get laid off -- then it's worth doing the refi while you have the chance.

You'll be in your home five years from now. While most experts think that rates will stay low for a while, they're not likely to get much lower, and there's no guarantee they won't jump unexpectedly.

If you're planning to stay longer than five years, go with a 30-year fixed to eliminate any interest-rate risk, since rates on seven- and 10-year ARMs are only a notch lower than those on 30-year loans. And if you have any doubts about your time frame, lock in. After all, you don't want to be in this same predicament five or so years down the road.

You'll pay more to lock in a fixed-rate mortgage today. But a couple of years from now, holding on to that adjustable-rate loan could get costly.

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Sunday, October 11, 2009

500 Helped by Obama Mortgage Rescue!


The administration reaches its goal a few weeks early. But it remains to be seen how many of these trial modifications will work.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Loan servicing companies have put 500,000 troubled borrowers into trial mortgage modifications, the Obama administration said Thursday.

The administration set that target in late July after it came under fire for not helping homeowners fast enough. http://shortrefiusa.com/

Officials have increased the pressure on servicers to speed up their implementation of the president's foreclosure prevention plan, which calls for reducing eligible borrowers' monthly payments to no more than 31% of their pre-tax income. Servicers had until Nov. 1 to hit the half-a-million mark.

The administration also released a related report Thursday showing that 16% of eligible troubled borrowers at least 60 days delinquent were placed into trial modifications as of the end of September. This is up from 12% a month earlier.

Consumer advocates have said that the president's initiative has prompted servicers to help more people than ever before. But, there is still a long way to go.

The administration's efforts are only "chipping away" at the problem, said Barry Zigas, director of housing policy for the Consumer Federation of America

"It's very, very frustrating that so many borrowers are on track to lose their homes," Zigas said. Thursday's report "is not a cause to rest."

President Obama announced the $75 billion initiative in February and the first institutions to join began accepting applications in April. http://shortrefiusa.com/

The plan, which was projected to help up to 4 million homeowners, puts qualified borrowers into three-month trial modifications before the adjustment is made final. Servicers, borrowers and investors can get financial incentives to participate.

Servicers' performance, however, remains very uneven. Short Payoff Refinance http://shortrefiusa.com/

Saxon Mortgage Services once again led the pack with 41% of eligible delinquent borrowers in trial modifications, while Citigroup (C, Fortune 500) and Aurora Loan Servicers following at 33%. JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) has put 27% of its clients into trial modifications, while Wells Fargo (WFC, Fortune 500) has placed 20% and Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) 11%.

Several servicers, including many of the largest banks, have made great strides in recent months. Wells Fargo, for instance, had helped only 6% of eligible borrowers by the end of July. The bank's numbers rose after it started putting people into the trial modifications before collecting all the documentation, a practice which many of its peers do.

Administration officials met with servicers Thursday afternoon to press for further improvements in their modification efforts and responsiveness to borrowers. Many people have complained that financial institutions lose their paperwork, transfer them repeatedly between departments and require that they fill out applications again and again.

Permanent modifications
Though the housing market is showing signs of stabilizing in some locations, the foreclosure crisis continues to plague the nation. The president's plan has been credited with reducing the number of homes falling into foreclosure, but some experts worry that the modifications will only delay many inevitable defaults.

Many banks put delinquent homeowners into the trial modifications as long as they meet the basic criteria, such as having a first mortgage of less than $729,750 and living in the home as their primary residence. During the three-month trial, banks gather detailed income documentation and determine whether they'll recover more money by foreclosing on the home or by offering a permanent modification.

Banks, however, say they are having trouble obtaining the needed paperwork from borrowers, said Zigas. http://shortrefiusa.com/

Borrowers, meanwhile, must make timely payments during the trial.

The industry is now waiting to see how many borrowers in trial modifications will qualify for permanent adjustments. Banks said they have yet to compile how many people were ultimately denied permanent modifications.

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Monday, September 21, 2009

Frustrations Rises over Mortgage Relief Program!!




After months of dead ends, rejections and runarounds from bank representatives, Dan Binder is still in loan modification limbo.

When Binder lost his job as a media researcher, he and his wife left their southern California home in July 2008 and relocated to North Carolina where he found a new job in the media business.

Since then, he’s never missed a payment on the three-bedroom home in Riverside County, Calif., he said, though it's lost about half its value since he bought it in 2005 for $418,000. When his wife lost her job after the move, he called his lender, Wells Fargo, to see if the bank could rewrite the loan to lower the monthly payments. Short Payoff Refinance

Since then, he said, he’s gotten conflicting responses from multiple bank representatives, one of whom said he was days away from a new loan that was subsequently rejected.

At one point, after assurances that he submitted all the appropriate paperwork, he was told a form was missing. When he provided it, he was told the remaining paperwork was more than 30 days old and he would have to update and resubmit each document. At another point, he said, he was told his file showed a sizable credit card debt he didn’t owe.

After his latest rejection he asked for an explanation.

“They said the notes from the investors (holding the mortgage) said, ‘You spend too much on food,’ ” he said.

If all this sounds familiar, it's because homeowners around the country have been jumping through similar hoops with the same fruitless results.

Nearly two years after the federal government’s first program to slow the relentless rise in the pace of home foreclosures, the latest attempt, known as Making Home Affordable, is turning out to be another painful disappointment for millions of Americans at risk of losing their homes.

Dozens of e-mails from msnbc.com readers report months of futile effort to modify their loans. The list of problems includes misdirected calls, lost paperwork and conflicting advice from multiple representatives for the same lender.

A Wells Fargo spokeswoman said the company can't comment on individual customer's loans due to privacy restrictions. But she said the company is "working with all of its customers who experience hardships and need assistance with their mortgage payments up the point of actual foreclosure sale.” Short Payoff Refinance

“As the government guidelines have changed and as we have gotten more options to help people, there has been some communication confusion that we are working to absolutely get on top of and correct for customers,” she said.

HUD-approved housing counselors — the frontline professionals trying to help borrowers modify mortgages — have expressed frustrations with a variety of roadblocks, bureaucratic snafus and ongoing confusion about the program.

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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Affinity Lending Group is making head way as Citi Boosts Mortgage HELP!


Some 108,000 Citi customers avoid foreclosure in second quarter, up 30% from previous period. But delinquencies are up too.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The good news is that Citigroup helped 108,000 people avoid foreclosure during the second quarter, a nearly 30% increase from the previous period.

The bad news is that the number of its borrowers at least 90 days behind in payments surged to 4.7%, up from 3.9% in the first quarter.

Still, CitiMortgage CEO Sanjiv Das feels the bank's ramped-up foreclosure prevention efforts can help stem the number of its borrowers falling behind.

"You keep plugging away at the early stages of delinquency and that's how you slow down the number of foreclosures," Das said in an interview.

Citigroup (C, Fortune 500) reported Tuesday that for every completed foreclosure, 12 at-risk borrowers get to stay in their homes. Six months ago, the ratio was 1 to 6.

The bank's loss mitigation initiatives include repayment plans, payment extensions, forbearance, and loan modifications.

When borrowers can't afford to stay in their homes, Citi also helps them avoid foreclosure through short sales -- in which a homeowner sells the property for less than what's owed -- and deeds-in-lieu-of-foreclosure, in which a homeowner signs over the house to the bank. The 1 to 12 ratio that it reported Tuesday does not include short sales or deeds-in-lieu.

Total modifications decreased by 5% during the quarter as the bank ramped up its implementation of the Obama administration's loan modification program. The president's program, which gives banks incentive payments to modify loans, requires that borrowers be put into a three-month trial period before the modification is finalized. Citi also has its own modification programs.

Tuesday's report, the 7th issued by Citi, is the first to include the Obama modification program, which began in April.

The bank, one-third of which is owned by U.S. taxpayers, said the redefault rates for modified loans continued to decline. Only 6.54% of loans adjusted in the first quarter were delinquent after 30 days, compared to 7.67% of loans modified in the fourth quarter and 10.86% of those adjusted in the third quarter.

More troubling, however, is the fact that foreclosures and delinquencies continue to rise. The number of foreclosures in process for Citi-serviced loans increased about 10% from the first quarter, though foreclosures initiated dropped by 14%. Completed foreclosures rose by 5%.

The rising unemployment rate is keeping foreclosure and delinquency rates on the upswing, troubling housing counselors and policymakers.

Like other banks, Citi is under pressure to increase aid to its troubled borrowers

To some extent, the bank is under even more scrutiny since it has received more support from the federal government than other financial institutions. Last month, Citi converted $25 billion of preferred shares the government acquired into common shares. The government funneled a total of $45 billion into the bank.

As for putting people into trial modifications under the Obama plan, Citi came in the middle of the pack. It placed 15% of its eligible delinquent loans into trial modifications, according to a Treasury Department report issued earlier this month.

Citi trails competitors such as JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) and GMAC Mortgage, each of which placed 20% of their troubled clients in trial modifications. But it led rivals such as Wells Fargo (WFC, Fortune 500) and Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), which assisted 6% and 4% of borrowers, respectively.

Das said the bank has picked up the pace of putting borrowers into the Obama plan. The number now exceeds 20%.

Citi uses a wide definition of helping borrowers avoid foreclosure. The bulk of its efforts involve modifications and extensions, which tack on late payments to the end of the mortgage.

Going forward, modifications will make up the bulk of the bank's foreclosure prevention efforts, Das said. Extensions will be offered to those who don't qualify for a modification.


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Friday, August 21, 2009

Life after the "F" word Foreclosure


After losing their homes, these 4 families thought they'd never recover. They've found it difficult to rent and their credit is wrecked, but life is looking up.

City: Chicago
Price paid: $245,000
Current value: 175,000
Lesson: "My only regret is that ... we signed a contract and then we couldn't fulfill that contract."

Stephanie Thomson's troubles began when her husband Rich, a highly regarded hair designer, became disabled with neuropathy and could no longer work.

The income loss made it impossible for the couple to sustain the payments on their home in a Chicago suburb.

When they bought the house, they took out a hybrid ARM mortgage. The original bill was $1,400 a month. But it went to $1,900 after three years and more than $2,000 after the second reset six months later.

"With my husband unable to work, we could have paid the mortgage without the ARM reset but nothing more," says Stephanie, who tried for months to get help from her lender. (Robert wants to point out tried for months to get help from her lender) If you find yourself in this position please contact Robert Vaughan with Affinity Lending Group at (562) 673-1136

"They told me they would pray for me. That's an exact quote," she says.

The Thomsons decided to stop paying their mortgage last July -- their first time missing a payment. They didn't pay for 10 months, during which time YouWalkAway.com helped guide them through the foreclosure process.

In April, having saved what they would have paid in mortgage, they relocated to Elyria, Ohio, where Stephanie has relatives. Unfortunately, their credit scores had dropped so low that it was difficult to rent -- much less buy -- a new place. So Stephanie's mom bought a house and rents it to them.

"It's less expensive here; we were able to get a larger house in a wonderful neighborhood," she says. "My only regret is that I'm a proud person. We signed a contract and then we couldn't fulfill that contract because of my husband's illness. It was very difficult."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY7MToO1fdM
Lori DiBacco
Lori and Bill DiBacco

• Big cities: Big changes in foreclosure rates
City: Oceanside, Calif.
Price paid: $610,000
Current value: $550,000
Lesson: "It was so horrible, the worst stress we'd ever been under."
Apparel sales rep Lori DiBacco and her musician husband, Bill, were living a dream life in their five-bed, three-bath home with pool in beautiful Oceanside, Calif. They bought the place in 1994, and they lived well, but not wisely.

"We took great vacations, if we saw something we wanted we bought it," says Lori.

The couple was childless by choice, as they both traveled for work. Then, five years ago, their goddaughter came to live with them. That radically altered everything.

Bill stopped working so someone would be home, which halved the couple's income. Then, there were big expenses for taking care of the child.

"She needed a lot of extra care," Lori says. "We put a lot of money into her education, dropping $50,000 the first year into Sylvan Learning Center for remedial work."

The coup-de-grace happened when Lori injured her back and couldn't work.

They burned through their savings and took out a second loan on the house. Their monthly mortgage bill, about $1,400 when they first bought the house, ballooned to $4,400. They started missing payments; they simply didn't have the money. They went nine months without paying.

"Oh my God, it was so horrible, the worst stress we'd ever been under," Lori says. "It sent my husband over the edge to a nervous breakdown."

By the time they were done, they owed $610,000 on a property that was worth just $550,000 when they did a short sale last year. (This would have been a good shortpay refinance if they kept current on the mortgage payments.
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Things are much better now. Bill runs a business restoring classic Mustangs, and Lori started a pet concierge business, which arranges everything for the pampered pet. She calls working with animals her dream job.

Their finances are still tattered. They were turned down for several places they tried to rent. They're living in a condo owned by Bill's mom, paying a small rent but fixing the place up. Lori loves the new place; it's in a quiet 55-plus community with very nice neighbors, most of whom have pets.

"We almost divorced many times over the stress of the financial burden and all that entailed," Lori says.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY7MToO1fdM

City: Carlsbad, Calif.
Price paid: $840,000
Current value: $600,000
Lesson: "Nothing was lost but a big, freaking headache."
This California resident bought his house nine years ago in a gated community within the posh, seaside city of Carlsbad. He took out an adjustable rate mortgage to keep the initial monthly payments affordable, but by this spring his monthly mortgage bill was $5,600.

At the same time, he found himself severely underwater thanks to falling home prices and several cash-out refinances.

The headhunter and motivational speaker couldn't afford that big a payment and realized he wasn't likely to make back nearly a quarter-million dollars in value. He tried for months to work something out with his lender, but he says, "They made me an offer that was unacceptable."

Instead, Nash, who is married with two kids, decided to go through the foreclosure process. He didn't pay the mortgage for 18 months and finally vacated in June. Not having a housing payment during that time kept him from financial ruin since his headhunting business was in a tailspin.

Nash and his family are now living in a $1,900-a-month rented townhouse in the same great neighborhood just a half mile away from their former home. "I downsized about 1,000 square feet to a 1,500-square-foot home," he says. "Hey! It's a lot easier to clean."

He feels like he landed on his feet in just about every way: His kids were able to stay in the same school; he stayed in the same location, which is like living in a beach resort; and he's spending a lot less on housing. "Nothing was lost but a big, freaking headache," he says.

Still, he counts himself lucky that he was able to find the new place. Most large-scale commercial property complexes wouldn't rent to him because his credit was so tattered, but he found a woman who had just lost her job and needed to leave her townhouse on short notice. He had just received a big check for a head-hunting transaction he had just closed so he got the place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY7MToO1fdM

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The credit for this stories goes to Les Christie, CNNMoney.com



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Affinity Lending Group
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Mortgage Modifications Moving at Snail’s Pace!! Shortpay's Are Up!!


Bank of America, Wells Fargo get low marks on plan to help homeowners

WASHINGTON - The government's $50 billion program to ease the mortgage crisis is helping only a tiny fraction of struggling homeowners, and a list released Tuesday showed which lenders are laggards.

As of July, only 9 percent of eligible borrowers had seen their mortgage payments reduced with modified loans. And the first monthly progress report showed that 10 lenders had not changed a single mortgage.

The report indicated that lenders such as Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo and Co. have lagged behind government expectations. Both banks received billions in federal bailout money.

BofA modified just 4 percent of eligible loans, and Wells Fargo 6 percent. Wachovia Corp., which was taken over by Wells Fargo in December, modified only 2 percent.

"We think they could have ramped up better, faster, more consistently and done a better job serving borrowers and bringing stabilization to the broader mortgage markets and economy," said Michael Barr, the Treasury Department's assistant secretary for financial institutions. "We expect them to do more."

Wells Fargo says it plans to speed up its efforts, signing up most borrowers for the Obama plan with one phone call and sending customers a trial offer within two days.

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The report is "only part of the story" because the numbers do not reflect an additional 220,000 loans that Wells modified outside the Obama plan this year, a company executive said.

BofA said it would improve its "processes for reaching those in need" and continue working with the Treasury Department to help homeowners who fall outside the program's eligibility requirements.

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Increase in foreclosures
Meanwhile, foreclosures continue to rise. About 1.5 million households received at least one foreclosure-related notice in the first half of this year, according to RealtyTrac Inc.

"There are certainly more foreclosures going on in the country then there are modifications — by a long shot," said Bruce Dorpalen, director of housing counseling at Acorn Housing, a nonprofit housing group. He said his group has intervened to prevent about 500 foreclosure sales in cases where borrowers wanted to be considered for the Obama plan.

A housing counselor told 36-year-old Veronica Cassella she should qualify for a loan modification, but Green Tree Servicing LLC claims she does not. Cassella, who works at a hair and nails salon in Visalia, Calif., has seen her income shrink with the economy from $35,000 to $25,000.

Her husband still works, but their income is not enough to cover the $213,000 mortgage on their home, which has lost roughly half its value.

"My life has been a standstill with these people for at least half the year," Cassella said. Green Tree, which modified 4 percent of eligible loans, did not return calls for comment.

There are 38 companies participating in the government program, and some noticeable holdouts that control 15 percent of outstanding mortgages.

HomEq Servicing, owned by Barclays PLC, and Litton Loan Servicing, owned by Goldman Sachs, have yet to join. Spokesmen for both companies said they plan to do so soon.

Government partly to blame
So far, banks have extended only 400,000 offers among 2.7 million eligible borrowers who are more than two months behind on their payments. More than 235,000 of those borrowers have enrolled in three-month trials.

But the government is partly to blame for the languid start. The administration rolled out the guidelines gradually this year. Much of the program was not finished until mid-May, and the guidelines were updated again in early July.

The White House maintains it is on track to meet its goal of helping up to 4 million homeowners by 2012. Last week, the administration extracted a verbal promise from the mortgage industry to reach 500,000 borrowers by Nov. 1.

American Home Mortgage Servicing and PNC Financial Services Group Inc. were among the companies that had a zero next to their names on Tuesday's report.

In a statement, American Home Mortgage Servicing explained that it did not join the program until July 22 but had modified nearly 37,000 loans in the first six months of 2009.

David M. Friedman, president and CEO, said executives expect to help 60,000 customers, or about 40 percent of the company's eligible delinquent borrowers.

PNC, which owns National City Bank, began the process in early July.

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