Sunday, February 9, 2014

Want a Loan from Back To Work Mortgage Lenders? Get HUD Counseling First

Now that the FHA has a loan product to serve those who have been through a negative economic event it is important that you find out what the requirements are to qualify for the said loan. Loss of income, employment or both is what has been termed as an economic event. However, it needs to have reduced the income of the borrower’s household by at least twenty percent for more than 6 months. Back to work mortgage lenders have received instruction not to approve any loans unless the borrower has been through housing counseling.

If you are to get approval for a back to work home loan you need to have sat through a homeownership counseling and education class. Each borrower hoping to get an approval will need to have sat with a HUD approved counselor and had an hour of one-on-one counseling. This counseling is meant to review and analyze why the economic event occurred and to also find out what steps have been taken by the borrower to overcome the event. In addition, the counselor will also want to know what measures have been put in place to ensure that a reoccurrence is unlikely.


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The counseling must be carried out by a housing counseling agency approved by HUD, or by intermediaries and sub-grantees that have been approved to do so. Finance agencies that work with state housing are also allowed to offer housing counseling. The counseling can take place online, by telephone or even via the internet, so long as HUD has approved of the method. It is also a requirement that the housing counseling session take place between 1 month and 6 months before the loan is applied for.

The borrower will need to provide the back to work mortgage lenders that he/she approaches with the certificate of participation that he/she has received from the HUD counseling agency. Unfortunately if this certificate is not submitted along with the other loan application forms, the borrower will not get the financing.

This loan is a great opportunity for those who have gone through bankruptcy – both chapters 7 and 13 - forbearance, pre-foreclosure, deed-in-lieu, foreclosure and loan modification- to get a fresh start. In fact, the long waiting periods before one could get a mortgage (2 years for bankruptcy and 3 years for foreclosure, deed-in-lieu and short sale) have been completely waived. Now if you can show proof that for the last 12 months you have been in economic recovery, gone through the necessary counseling and met your financial obligations, you can get a home loan easily and start on the path of becoming a home owner again.