by Arizona REALTORS on June 11, 2015
                            
                                Freddie Mac published a blog post June 8, detailing the case of an Affinity Fraudster. “The idea behind ‘affinity fraud’ is to exploit the baseline...
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                            by Jan Steward on October 14, 2014
                            
                                Posted on Fannie Mae’s website this week, is a notice to servicers of a change in the Fannie Mae Standard Modification interest rate. The current...
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                            by Jan Steward on May 31, 2013
                            
                                The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that it has issued directives to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to extend the Home Affordable Modification Program...
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                            by Jan Steward on May 13, 2013
                            
                                Originally scheduled to start on July 1, 2013, Freddie Mac is making the new Streamlined Modification Program available immediately to eligible borrowers.  The program is...
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                            by Jan Steward on August 27, 2012
                            
                                The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)  has issued a directive to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to align existing short sale programs into one standard short...
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                            by Jan Steward on July 19, 2012
                            
                                In the June 2012 edition of the Broker/Manager Risk Management Update, Michelle Lind, AAR’s General Counsel and Assistant CEO, wrote an article, Understand the Risks...
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                            by Arizona REALTORS on May 30, 2012
                            
                                BY HOLLY ESLINGER, ABR, CRB, CRS, GRI Last year, brokers were faced with a Freddie Mac addendum that, by signing, agreed to indemnify Freddie Mac...
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