If you are searching the internet looking for more information on the Barack Obama Home Mortgage Plan or the Obama Loan Modification Plan, this article should help you understand how it works.

With Americans losing their homes left and right, streets are now filled with dead lawns, weeds and “Bank Owned” signs. To combat this foreclosure epidemic, Obama released his Mortgage Plan. Their are many critics out there saying that this plan is not working, but it has helped many homeowners to lower their monthly payments. The trick is filling out the paperwork correctly.

People tend to lie. Simple as that. They think they need to “fudge” their applications and make themselves look dirt poor. Nothing will get you denied faster than that! The bank wants to see that you are still making money, but have suffered a financial hardship – not a financial disaster. You have to be able to show that you could afford your lowered payments – even with the Obama plan. It is still the banks discretion on who they choose to accept.

You might want to seek the advice of experts on this one, because the Obama mortgage plan will drastically lower your monthly payments if you do get qualified.

How low? Not greater than 31% of your total monthly pre tax income. That is a huge monthly savings for most people, especially if they are in a high interest rate loan, which is who this plan was made for. There are a few different ways that your lender will get your payments this low and it always starts in the following order.

The first way your lender will try to get your payments within the 31% threshhold is by lowering your interest rate. This will go down all the way to 2% if necessary. If this doesn’t get your payment low enough, they will move on to the next step…

The second step is to extend your terms. This lowers your payment even more. If you currently have a 30 year loan and extend that into a 40 year loan, you are spreading out your payments over 10 more years. If this doens’t work, they will try step 3.

The final step would be a principal reduction. They could choose to knock some money off of your loan balance to get you under the 31%. This is pretty rare, but I have heard of it. Usually, getting a super low 2% interest rate and extending the terms to 40 years is going to do the trick. Some people want to get a loan modification just to try and knock money off of their principal, but this doesn’t usually happen. The goal is to get your payment low enough so you can afford to stay in your house, not to take money off of a balance that you agreed to pay. But think of it this way, your interest rate will be lower than almost everyones and that has the same effect as lowering your balance in terms of your monthly payments.

If you would like assistance with the Obama Mortgage Plan, you can visit the links below. They have helped people get qualified who were originally denied by their lenders.