For those living in San Diego County and currently suffering from ballooning mortgage payments or the threat of San Diego foreclosure, you can know that you are certainly not alone. With the new government intervention and a crackdown on predatory lending there is hope. Getting legal assistance to help you with your current mortgage situation is paramount. Without proper legal representation your San Diego mortgage modification could site for months or more in layers of bureaucratic red tape and government mismanagement. In fact, many of today's answers are trying to steer the San Diego homeowner back to the lenders that, in many cases, created the mortgage crisis in the first place! If you are facing a possible foreclosure, looking at bankruptcy or are upside-down on your loan then it will extremely difficult for you to get relief as the credit squeeze continues to stalemate the banking industry.
Indeed, at this critical time in our nation's history, homeowners who are seeking help in getting their San Diego home loans modified need to be extremely wary of mortgage brokers that claim to be working for the good of the homeowner and loan modifications. During the past five years, especially in San Diego County, many of these same brokers were offering "teaser" and other predatory loans that are now smothering homeowners in debt. And now that the real estate market has come unglued there are dozens upon dozens of lenders and brokers who have changed their calling cards from "mortgage companies" to "loan modification companies".
Now is not the time to play games with your financial future or your legacy. Proper legal representation is your best chance to get a real home loan modification without further exposing yourself to even greater risk...or risking the chance of being lost in a wall of paperwork served by state and local governments.
The housing market, in and of itself, is more complex than even these simple but economically paralyzing statistics describe. In Southern California real estate and particularly in and around San Diego, there are now hundreds to thousands of homeowners who suddenly find themselves behind on their mortgage payments and facing possible foreclosure. For many San Diegans the current "mortgage crisis" could serve multiple blows.
