It would be helpful if you included the number we should be calling. Thank you.

Let me get this right .You let your house go into forclosure and lose it. On now you will get taxpayer money after the fact?

In view of those facing foreclosure on their homes, those of us on Section 8 renting apartments have just been dealt the blow of our rent increasing in April. This increase does not come from the apartment owners, it comes from our Maryland government with an apparent OK from HUD. The letters were written Feb. 28, 2012, effective April 1, 2012. In my case, I’m a senior citizen on a Social Security income of about $1,000.00 per month with no other assets and my rent will increase by $110.00. There is an other probable increase in mine when my lease renewal comes up in May. At least 3/4 of the seniors in my building have just been hit with this increase.

OK I am amazed that there are actually such UNeducated citizens out there. I for one have been trying to save my house from foreclosure for the last 3 years…ever since we were backed into an adjustable rate mortgage that skyrocketed before it came back down. So we have owned our home for 10 years but have not been able to catch up since our rate shot up to 10% a few years ago. We have applied for a mortgage modification FOUR TIMES and been denied with no explanations. We are a small business owner fighting tooth and nail for our future. So you want to call someone a “lazy ass” or tell me I “deserve to lose my house”…know your facts first. (BTW, we are white but even I take offense to your racial comment, jerk)

Jessica, My wife and I went to four home buying seminars before purchasing our first home for 83K. The first thing we learned was DO NOT get an adjustable rate mortgage, save until you have a good downpayment 10-20% we had 12% and purchased way below what the realtor told us we could afford. She said we qualified for 127K. If we took her advise we would be house poor and may have needed an adjustable rate mortgage to get the house she thought we could afford. Good luck to you.