Due to circumstance beyond my control I have been in default on a mortgage with US Bank since the Fall of 2012. Since this time I have been working earnestly with US Bank to find a solution which would allow me to stay in my home. I can afford a mortgage at a lower rate than I had previously, but all the bank will offer is a much higher rate with a 40 year term ( I will likely be dead at this point ). During this period I have also attempted to sell the home unsuccessfully either as a short sale, or for an amount that would satisfy the outstanding US Bank Debt. The process for resolving mortgage issues is laiden by a XXXX XXXX bureaucracy that is incomprehensible which, rather than providing affordable solutions to struggling home owners, forces them into greater debt for longer periods of time. Qualification for the HAMP program is also a puzzle - I initiated my loan prior to the cutoff date, but now am being denied consideration because I modified the loan after the cutoff date. Any banking official with a reasonable IQ can understand that it is in the bank 's interest to create a mortgage agreement on a 30 year term that I can afford ( I can afford {$2200.00} with taxes and insurance ), rather than force me into foreclosure and lose money on the house after it sits unmaintained and uninhabitated for a long period of time then sold on the auction block - yet I ca n't get a decision maker on the phone to see the logic in this. 
