Is A Forensic Loan Audit Your Salvation
May 12, 2010 by Gavin J. King
Filed under Finance
It is sad to see the devastating effects that the home market has had on moral of homeowners. In order to short sale their home, people have to quit paying on their mortgage, which kills their credit score and makes getting credit lines and loans in the future much more difficult.
With the specter of foreclosure on their financial radar, many people who go through the short sale process have no options but to file bankruptcy as a back up plan.
Should a homeowner request a forensic loan audit?
A lot of the concerns of homeowners can be addressed by a simple forensic audit of your home loan, which can reveal any mistakes the lender made in completing your loan. The reason this a great step to take is because over 82% of all lender have been cited for compliance violations which require them to pay the customer money back.
The seriousness of the types of mistakes lenders make ranges from fraud all the way to simply mistakes in accounting. In any transaction the home loan company has to fulfill certain regulatory guidelines and responsibilities, and to neglect to do that would leave them liable to correct those mistakes with money or a change in the terms of the loan.
What can a forensic loan audit for you?
As there appears to be a limited amount of options on the table, most homeowners simply choose to stop paying. My advice is to take the money that would normally go toward your payment and spend it on a forensic loan audit to make sure your lender has complied with the required laws.
Since so many auditing attorneys work on a contingency fee basis the audit ends up costing the homeowner nothing, especially since if the bank is found to have done nothing wrong the procedure ends up being free. Requesting an audit is simple so do not hesitate to act in a constructive manner and avoid financial catastrophe!
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