While this will be helpful in reducing foreclosures in the short run, if not handled carefully it may also create perverse incentives for increased delinquencies in the future if the terms require borrowers to be delinquent in order to receive the windfall of principal reduction.

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But these can be intrusive or annoying if not handled carefully.

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