People whose mortgage payments are reduced through loan modifications often are still drowning in other types of debt. The loan-mod treatment can be akin to using a small Band-Aid to try to cover up a mortar-sized wound. We may be relying too heavily on that limited loan-mod cure partly because another more holistic therapy, bankruptcy, is no longer as attractive to the patients.
Diana Golobay was a reporter with HousingWire through mid-2010, providing wide-ranging coverage of the U.S. financial crisis. She has since moved onto other roles as a writer and editor.see full bio
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Diana Golobay was a reporter with HousingWire through mid-2010, providing wide-ranging coverage of the U.S. financial crisis. She has since moved onto other roles as a writer and editor.see full bio