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A loan program that can help with housing costs is flying under the radar in Berkshire County. The Home Modification Loan Program is a state-funded initiative that provides up to $50,000 in financing ...

The Obama Administration is gearing up to play hardball with mortgage companies that only temporarily lower struggling homeowners’ monthly payments. But as the drive to make more loan modifications ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. program aimed at helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure has been oversold by the Treasury Department and is likely to be a failure when it wraps up in 2012, a ...

Apparently the easiest way to get a loan modification these days is to have a news reporter make a call for you. That seems to have been the case for Maria C. Nido, a friendly and humble 55-year-old ...

FDIC Chairman Sheila C. Bair has announced that IndyMac Federal Bank FSB will implement a new program to systematically modify troubled mortgages. The program is designed to achieve affordable and ...

After her husband lost his tech job in 2008, Lisa Eidner of Mahwah, N.J., asked the couple's mortgage servicer to lower their monthly payments. The company agreed to a temporary cut but sent the ...

Discover how home modifications improve accessibility, safety, and independence for individuals with physical limitations for ...

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Berkshire Regional Planning Commission invites applications to the Home Modification Loan Program, a state-funded no-interest loan program to provide modifications to those in need of accessibility ...