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Explore Loan Workout Options: If you have an Adjustable Rate Mortgage that is adjusting or have missed mortgage payments which has impacted your ability to refinance , you still have options in this market. Your lender may offer several 'loan workout' options including but not limited to: reinstatement, forbearance or a new repayment plan to suit your situation. When you call your lender directly ask for a supervisor for best result! FHA Rescue and Secure Plans FHA officially offers a range of options for people needing to get out of ARM loans or who may be in arrears. Not all lenders offer these plans. Even FHA is teetering on risk based pricing hits (translated: higher interest rates) to encourage lenders to fund these loans. Certainly you should speak with an FHA licensed broker or bank about whether you will qualify. Officially the FHA has advised they perfer no FICO score or a minimum of 500. The banks who fund FHA loans have very strict loan limits (by city/county)

Congress Passes Housing Bill to Assist Homeowners Takes effect January 1, 2009 The newly passed Housing Bill promises more help for homeowners facing foreclosures. What we don't know yet is how Congress is going to get private banks to actually deliver these programs. Much of the legislation is designed to better inform consumers and this is very welcome news to our industry! Officially, Congress has set aside more money for FHA guaranteed loans and will pump more money into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Since Freddie and Fannie, both Goverment Sponsored Enterprises, or GSE's were placed in conservatorship shortly after the Housing Bill was passed, the new heads have not yet declared if their recent guideline changes (tighter) will continue as planned. In fact, FHA has areadly delared a moratorium on their own risk guidelines so the whole situaiton is very much up in the air. These risk based guidelines translate into higher interest rates and fees for marginal credit or dec