II live in California. I modified my first mortgage $240,000 at 2% under the HAMP program and my second $396,000 also HAMP at 1%. This rate is fix for 5 years. My first was easy to modify, but the second took me almost two years (Chase is extremely unreliable and difficult to deal with). The mod with Chase was finalized on Jun, 2011.
I am in the process o bankruptcy chapter 7, I went to the debtors meeting 2 weeks ago. I know I only have 60 days to do the reaffirmation. By all means I want to keep my home, even tough I owe more then the house is worth, I do want to keep it.