Mortgage Modification in Chapter 13 Unlikely

Well, it looks like Chapter 13 Mortgage Modification is dead for now. (See House Likely to Pass Housing Bill This Week Without ‘Cramdown’.) This is unfortunate, because getting voluntary modifications from servicers has been well-nigh impossible. The new administration wanted to use a carrot and stick approach to loan modifications. They got the carrot, but no stick. Without the stick, I think loan modifications are going to be increasingly rare--everybody talks about them, but no one has ever seen one. (I have actually seen them, but they are few and far between and I have only seen one that really made sense for the debtor.)