Finance gurus, will this actually work? From Diana Olick's blog...
"According to the agreement with NACA, Countrywide has to take the most favorable (to the borrower) interpretation of the servicing agreement, and modify the loan to suit a certain affordability formula, designed by NACA. This modification includes lowering the interest rate to around a 5-6% fixed rate, and if this is still too much, lowering the actual principal of the loan.
"They did 25 modifications on the first day. How can the investors afford it? Well, it’s still cheaper than foreclosing on the home, apparently, and the investors don’t want to have to tell NACA, and its strong political backers, that they’re denying a borrower a way out of foreclosure.
...now CEO’s are losing their jobs and companies are going out of business, sending hard-working people, not just the loan officers, out into the streets with their boxes of plants and pictures of kids. And this will continue as the lenders and investors “correct” all these loans and keep all the borrowers in their homes.
<strong>And the borrowers, who saw all this free money and couldn’t help but jump into all these great products from “reputable” lenders, claiming that none of this could ever go bad, are now staying in their oversized, overpriced, over-amenitized (I made that word up) homes, with their “modified” affordable loans, while those who saw through the too-good-to-be-true offers are sitting in smaller homes with fewer bathrooms. "
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/21530514
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