About Madison County, ID

A recient survey but the Notional Associan of Realtors found that over 50% of home owners, who are late on their house payments, don't know that they can have their loans modified so that theny can better afford their house payments. There is help available! There are actually a lot of options out there and many of the homes that go into foreclosure don't really need to do so. There are several web site a person con go to to find help. Consider looking at these:

www.makinghomeaffordable.com www.hopenow.com www.hud.gov

All of these can give you direction into how to get help. Why let a home go into foreclosure when you don't need to? Loans can be modified in several ways. Interest rates may be lowered.Back payments may be re-calcuated and put onto the end of the loanso that new payments are on time. Adjustable rate mortgages may be modified into fixed rate loans. In some cases, even some of the debt may be forgiven and a new loan issued with lower more affordable payments. Every persons circumstances are different and loans can be customized to fit the need.

Again, many of the homes that are foreclosed on don't need to be. If your home is in dristress mode; try these other options first.

Laying on my grandmas lawn and watching the jets fly over. My grandma lived right off the end of an Air Force Base runway, and on some days during the Vietnam War, fighter jets would fly over every couple of minutes. My friends and I would spend hours simply laying there and watching the jets. Like boys, we would talk about how cool it would be to fly one of them and how we were all going to be jet pilots some day. I think that our favorite part of the whole thing was when the pilots would kick in the afterburners right over us. We would wait for that. That sound, to a young boy, is so incredible, especially when coupled with the speed of the jet. Sometimes we would yell "Go" to the pilots as they flew by.

My family and I like to attend airshows whenever we can. We especially like to see the military demonstration teams when they are in our area. We argue over who is better, the USAF Thunderbirds or the Navy Blue Angels.

On July 26th and 27th, the Navy Blue Angels will be flying at the airshow in Twin Falls. For anyone within a few hours drive, this airshow will be spectacular. The organizers have put together a huge list of performers that will excite and amaze the audience. The show will be held at the Twin Falls airport and tickets are $15 per person. Gates open at 9 with flying starting at 11:30 both days.

Here is a link to the airshow website: http://www.ironpilotwb.com/adameday/index.php

This one will be a good one and if you have never seen the Blue Angels, you are in for a treat.