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Foreclosure Cleanup Business Advice - How to Staff Foreclosure Cleaning Jobs For Profit

When you start a foreclosure cleanup business, sometimes you’re going to have to hire help to get the job done right and on time. But, if you’re not careful with who and how you hire, you can blow your profits and ruin your business reputation.

Following are two things to keep in mind when you have to bring on help to assist you in your foreclosure cleaning business.

1. Use a Staffing Agency: One of the easiest ways to get the help you need with foreclosure cleaning jobs — quick — is to use a staffing agency. The reason is, they do all the screening and paperwork. You pay them and they pay the workers.

While this is a simple, quick way to hire help, it does have its drawbacks. The main one being, you’re usually paying each worker by the hour. So, if you’ve estimated that it’s going to take 7 hours to a job, but it winds up being 10, then that’s more money out of your pocket.

And, if you have to pay say two workers, that’s six extra hours of work. If you’re paying each worker $10/hour, that’s an extra $60.

Hence, you have to be very precise when you’re calculating when crafting your foreclosure cleanup job proposal. Build in enough of a profit so that if a job runs over, it doesn’t eat too much into your profits.

Note: When hiring labor from a staffing agency, ask about each worker’s work history with the agency, eg, how long have they temped through the agency; how many times have they been sent out in the last three months; what’s the feedback from other clients; etc.

2. Don’t Rely on Friends and Family: Many small business owners - and foreclosure clean up business owners are no different) — make the mistake of using friends and family to help them in their busi Read the rest of this entry »

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Obama’s Home Affordable Program - Welcome Relief For Worried Homeowners

Are you facing the foreclosure of your home? Perhaps, in your panic-stricken state, you have not paid attention to Obama’s Home Affordable program in the news. This could possibly be the solution to saving your home!

Loan modifications are certainly nothing new. Banks have occasionally reworked mortgages, but it has not been a common, frequently-mentioned tactic. It was not something that banks wanted people to be too aware of, anyway! It was never to just help a homeowner, but to cut their own losses.

The 2009 Stimulus Package contained 75 billion dollars in funding to help encourage banks to rework existing mortgages, preventing foreclosures for desperate homeowners. Lenders receive $1000 incentives for each homeowner they assist in this way.

President Obama hoped to reduce the rising rate of foreclosures in the United States through this program. If a bank is a participating lender, they are required to forgive late fees and penalties which can quickly become insurmountable. In a traditional loan modification, these are usually not forgiven, but refinanced either through the mortgage or in a separate loan agreement.

These loan modifications are helping millions of homeowners avoid foreclosure and financial disaster. They are targeted to people who had been victims of financial hardship, or unfortunate circumstances beyond their control. Usually, these applicants are already in default, and usually other bills are not all current, either. However, the lender is still interested in your credit risk. Your stability and ability to pay in the future are very important considerations in the application approval process.

You should certainly consider your eligibility for a loan modification through Obama’s Home Affordable Program. This is an opportunity to not only avoid the foreclosure of your home, but improve your tota Read the rest of this entry »

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Methods to Delay Mortgage Foreclosure - Postpone Foreclosure For a Long Time at Your Own Pace

Mortgage foreclosure is probably one of the biggest problems that is being faced by the population of the United States as an after-effect of the recent economic recession that hit the globe. If you are one of those in this predicament, you would probably be looking high and low for a solution to fight this complication, to either postpone it or maybe even stop foreclosure completely. Fret not, as there are plenty of ways for you to achieve just this and save your home as well as your family from ending up on the street! Let us browse through a few methods and steps that you could accomplish to successfully combat this problem:

1) Stop home foreclosure by trying your best to catch up on missed payments that brought the problem to your attention in the first place. Move home mortgage payments to the top of the payments list every month, and try as hard as possible to pay off your missed payments, even if this means not paying for your car or your insurance premiums. It is better off with a home than with a car and an insurance policy without a home, what say you?

2) Never move out of your home no matter what. If you do move out, you lose home-owner benefits such as the one-time FHA mortgage insurance that you are entitled to amongst other benefits. Thus no matter what, stay in your home, and work on a solution from indoors.

3) Use the help of government-related plans such as President Obama’s Loan Modification Plan and Mortgage Modification Plan to help you re-finance your home and obtain more affordable terms and rates. Many have benefitted from these programs, and you could be one of them!

4) Meet your creditors with a hardship letter in tow, and explain your current financial difficulties before negotiating with them on your missed payments and future actions. If you are lucky, they might be open to the idea of re-financi Read the rest of this entry »

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