It has been stated in a variety of newspapers over the past few years that the fees added on to foreclosure are very profitable to the lender. There have been thousands upon thousands of complaints from homeowners where they have suffered for months waiting for loan mods. Often when they started their request to receive a loan mod, they were not even in foreclosure. Yet by the time the lender finally got their loan modification completed, they were in foreclosure and had to pay off as a part of the loan mod agreement all the foreclosure fees as well as many other fees. Lenders have scammed thousands of people who never needed to be in foreclosure out of dollars now mounting in the millions.

Today, many homeowners contact Tila Solutions looking for a solution to get their lender to stop disqualifying them and stop the foreclosure process on them. Through the use of Forensic Loan Audits, Tila Solutions has been very instrumental in helping these homeowners. You can find out more about Forensic Loan audits and predatory loans at tila-now.com.

Even so, there are thousands of people who do not understand how lenders make money off the foreclosure process. Here is an excerpt from a FAQ section of a foreclosure website that may shed some light on this:

“Who pays the foreclosure fee and costs?
If the borrower brings the loan current or pays it off, the borrower is responsible to the lender for the foreclosure fee and costs.”

“ . . .If the property is sold to an outside bidder at the foreclosure auction, the foreclosure expenses will be paid by the bidder.”
You may wonder if this is a new trend. Perhaps this post from a distressed homeowner trying to pay off foreclosure in 2006 will help you to see how this is not a new money maker for lenders:

“HELP!! Foreclosure Fees? Posted by Brad on October 10, 2006, at 08:46:51:

“We are currently 4 months behind on the mortgage. My house is in foreclosure and scheduled to sell on November 7th. I have been trying to work with the mortgage company to salvage the house. I sent in everything asked of me two weeks ago and called every day (sometimes up to three times per day) last week leaving messages for my work out an agent to call me on my cell rather than the home since I work. I FINALLY got a hold of her yesterday, and she said that since she could not talk to me last week, the matter had been closed out, and the original late fees of $400 had now jumped to $1200, and they would again jump this Wednesday. . . .”

“Just got the agreement papers to sign today and the fees have gone up an additional $500 from what they told me they would agree to yesterday. They want 2 months mortgage today and the rest ($576) extra over the next 9 months.”

In 2007, foreclosure fees were being scrutinized, and it was discovered that as many as half the loans in chapter 13, bankruptcy had questionable foreclosure fees. You can see this for yourself with this New York Times Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/06/business/06mortgage.html

That was then, and this is now: CNN Money reported that Bank of America would have to pay out 108 million dollars to settle claims that Countrywide charged homeowners inflated foreclosure fees.

So the next time you hear that your lender will modify your loan free of charge, just remember that they don’t. The trend appears to be to keep your loan mod extending month after month, while they rack up foreclosure fees. If you do get approved for a loan mod, do miss the point that the foreclosure fees are being added to your principal balance, and you will be paying them off at a “reduced interest rate” for the next two or three decades.

There are again, thousands of reports on file of Lenders convincing people that they have no rights and that they can count on the lender for help (you know the ones suing you). Saddest of all are the stories of homeowners who lost their homes because they believed their lenders when they convinced them that they did not need professional help. So often, those foreclosures could have been stopped.

Homeowners would be wise to listen to these words from this 13-year-old boy because he is right. (His post comes from a comment made to the CNN Money News article of June 18, 2010, entitled Foreclosure tricks cost Countrywide $108 million – his typos have purposely not been corrected.) You may recall that this was the settlement fee that Bank of America will have to pay out to victims of Countrywide’s inflated foreclosure fee practices:

“Matthew Hutchinson Jun 18
“The reason they are able to add all these extra fees is due to them counting on people either being scared, in shock or just plain stupid. They try to take advantage of the publics ignorance on these matters, and they are counting all that extra ill-gotten money cause they are hoping the people being foreclosed on are dumb as dirt!
“I am 13 and see that it is not right to rip off people that way, but if we did that to them in any way we would go to jail! No justice at all, unless your rich and in charge!”

A Forensic Loan Review or Forensic Loan Audit, sometimes also called a Mortgage Audit is a thorough investigation of the loan that the bank gave you. This audit is done to locate all the Federal Laws that were violated by your bank when they created the loan they offered to you or your broker for you.

Tila Solutions is an Audit Company. They investigate loans given by the banks to determine if the bank violated any of the federal laws that protect the homeowners. Ultimately, if you have a predatory loan, you will need a Forensic Loan Audit. If you feel that the lenders mislead you, withheld information from you, rushed you or possibly gave you a loan that could contain fraud then you will want to get your loan investigated.
Tila Solutions Examiners work with the Federal Laws that protect you as a borrower. Probably when you signed the loan documents you heard or saw the reference to TILA, RESPA, HOEPA, and ECOA. Those laws were passed to help prevent you from getting a loan that you won’t be able to pay back, which is often known as a predatory loan. They are also supposed to ensure that you understand the loan.

Tila Examiners also look for fraud, and they investigate the loan to see if it complies with other federal regulating bodies and their guidelines. The fraud they look for is fraud committed by the banks – and their investigations have shown that the banks committed much fraud over the past decade!

When homeowners get turned down by the bank for a loan modification, a forensic loan audit is the critical first step to turning that around. Banks are not in the business of helping people; they are in the business of making money. The bank is not interested in giving you a lower payment, because you are experiencing hard times. They are only interested in seeing the loan they gave you “perform.”

In many cases, the bank calculations will show that they can make more money or experience less risk (or both) if they do not give you a loan modification. Normally that means you will be in foreclosure and losing your home. The Forensic Loan Audit is your most powerful weapon to show that a foreclosure is no longer a money-making option for the bank.

A performing loan is a loan that has a monthly payment coming in on time. The bank gets a nice profit for very little risk. This is all they want, and sadly, if you are not going to give them their money, then the bank will calculate the risk of modifying your loan against other methods of making money.

And that is why you need to get Tila Solutions to conduct a full forensic loan audit for you. Simply put the bank loses much of its power and ability to travel down other money-making avenues if the loan contains federal violations of TILA, RESPA, HOEPA, ECOA or if fraud is found when the investigation is done. Tila Examiners will meticulously go through your loan looking for all the federal violations.

This is very important: Once the Forensic Loan Review is completed, something effective must be done with it. Lenders actually tell homeowners it makes no difference (doesn’t it remind you of a criminal pointing out that the police won’t stop him) but doesn’t believe it for a minute. That is why Tila Solutions offers a free service to help negotiate on your behalf. The Lenders push borrowers around and mislead them all the time. Tila Solutions Negotiators will work on your behalf to make sure that you get your loan modification.

Tila Solutions has a homeowner hotline that you can call. Their consultants can help you identify if you have a predatory loan. They can help you determine if your loan is in need of a Forensic Loan Audit.

You should contact a Tila Consultant if you have been turned down for a loan mod, or if you are nearing or are in foreclosure. Tila Consultants can help people who are current on your loans or those with investment properties. A Forensic Loan Audit helps with these types of loans.

Are you still wondering if you should trust the bank’s promise to give you that loan mod?  Are you still trying to decide if it is time you got a forensic loan audit?  No matter what, the facts speak for themselves.  What are the facts of your loan?  How can those facts help save your home?

Despite government intervention, people continue to churn and burn while desperately hoping for a Loan Mod, while thousands report abusive, deceiving, unfair, and inept practices in the Loan Mod Departments.  Foreclosure statistics are still on the rise — they are moving along seamlessly. However, those departments are adequately staffed.

Lenders, bankers, news media – and even government officials warn you away from seeking professional services to help you save your financial life and your home. . .   Why?

The clue lies here in a video recently released on the web – you probably saw it.  In summary, it states that IndyMac makes more money foreclosing, short selling, and collecting from the FDIC than they do modify loans.

Some allege that the deal has been made with other banks who bought out failing loans, such as Bank of America, Chase, and Wells Fargo too.  As news of the Goldman Sachs Investigation hits the papers (banks put people into failing loans purposely so they could clean up on the stock market when they failed).  Bankers scammed homeowners.
Tila Solutions personnel hear from homeowners daily how they are being forced into foreclosure or short sale by their banks.  This strongly suggests that the findings in this video may have merit.

The money is in foreclosure and short sales. Loan Mods are not profitable, and the professionals that could and do help are often maligned. (Companies like Tila Solutions are cutting into the bank profits when they save homes).  It makes sense really because bankers are not in the business of helping people, they in the business of money-making.

Tila Solutions is in the business of providing forensic loan audits, and helping homeowners save their homes. That’s got to wreck those bank profits in the foreclosure and short sale departments!

But, how did we end up as a nation in foreclosure?  Who did it?  More importantly, who scammed you originally, and who is still scamming you now?  Read on.

It started in the late ’90s:  a 1999 Orlando Sentinel article states, – In a move that could provide stronger consumer protections for more than 1 million new home buyers a year, the federal government plans to take a novel, get-tough approach with lenders: It’s going to hold thousands of banks and mortgage companies directly responsible for the number of home buyers they finance who fall into default or foreclosure within the first 24 months after loan closing. (gotta wonder what the heck happened, don’t you?)

Over the past decade, estimates are as high as 80% of the loans issued by banks contain federal violations and are predatory loans.  Now there’s a huge contributing factor to escalating foreclosures and bankruptcies over the past five years!  (Tila Solutions has still not investigated a loan that did not contain numerous violations!)

And how many banks issued predatory loans that they then collected that federal mortgage insurance on after they foreclosed on the homeowner (and so often the homeowner didn’t know he had been foreclosed upon – he thought he was getting a loan mod). Tila hears from and helps these homeowners every day.

How about WaMu – once touted as the nation’s largest bank (they’re out of business now)

Seattle Times reported in October of 2009, that the fallout from the ‘biggest banking collapse in U.S. history shows no sign of ending soon.”  What fallout?  It’s all those lawsuits and federal investigations alleging securities fraud “whether fraud played a role in WaMu’s collapse,” and bankruptcy.

Of course, WaMu was shut down by the FDIC, and Chase was forced to buy their failing loans. Of course, Tila Solutions gets hundreds of calls from homeowners, desperate to stop Chase from foreclosing on their WaMu loans – you know those loans they produced that now has them being investigated for fraud and securities violations (back to issuing loans designed to fail for the benefit of the stock market, are we?)

Today, Chase is servicing all those loans.  Still burning and churning in Chase’s Loan Mod Department – listening to their recording which says, “we will modify your loan for free” while hoping to hear from a customer service rep that you don’t have to fax your tax return for the 20^th time, or fearing that you will hear that since you didn’t, you will now be foreclosed upon.

Or are you one of the more recent statistics – a person who thought they were getting a loan mod (for free) even made all your trial mod payments, and then received your auction date in the mail? They may claim to modify your loan for free – but rest assured they charged YOU several thousand dollars to foreclose on you.

Why on earth wouldn’t you get Tila Solutions to investigate and negotiate for you? The bank hired a professional to foreclose on you.

Many homeowners still, to this day, appear to put their faith in the banks – but would they have if our government’s efforts to stop the bank scams had made a much bigger media splash?

Summing things up then:

Can we be so bold as to assume that under the pretense of “working” to modify loans, they are taking homes in record numbers?  Tila sees the rising foreclosure statistics as a strong indication that this is the case.

Why is there no steady onslaught of media reports on this? How is bilking homeowners out of thousands of dollars in trial mod payments before their homes are foreclosed upon not a scam?  Tila Solutions helps homeowners stop these actions daily.

In an article in the March 4th, 2010, Orlando Sentinel, we see that Bank of America carries the lowest scores for loan mods:  “The lender, one of the nation’s biggest banks, holds more than a million mortgages that are months behind on their payments — twice as many defaulting home loans as any other lender in the country. But it has given permanent mortgage modifications to only about 1 percent of those borrowers — one of the lowest rates among lenders nationally.”

Unless the homeowner stops “listening to what the banks say” and starts reading the lawsuits the banks are passing out like lollipops when you make a deposit, the foreclosures are going to just keep on multiplying.  It is time to stop thinking the bank is going to help you.  It is time to start helping yourself.

Investigations have resulted in fraud and federal violations being found and addressed – albeit not adequately by our government, but even they cannot ignore them. Thus, one can surmise that when federal violations and fraud are found doors have opened – at any level.

Tila Solutions finds these violations, and doors open – no matter how the lenders may wish to deny it.  TILA, RESPA, HOEPA, ECOA, and Fraud violations when finding in open loan doors and save homes.

Do yourself a favor and contact Tila Solutions. Take matters into your own hands.  Just remember this:  The bank wants your money and your home.  Get a Forensic Loan Audit and let the people at Tila negotiate new terms for you with the bank.