How to keep your home and avoid foreclosure - video series

Freddie Mac has launched a new channel to educate distressed borrowers about the steps they need to keep their home and avoid foreclosure: a series of videos posted on YouTube.  These informative videos break down barriers of common misconceptions that prevent people from keeping their home if they face foreclosure.  Our YouTube series of videos are another way for you to deliver positive results in your community by providing consumers with reliable information that will help them take the next step toward sustainable homeownership.

How The Get the Facts YouTube Video Series Works

We have developed five short videos that each address a different, popular myth related to foreclosure.  Each video uses a spokesperson to dispel the myths.  The video series leverages the content in our Get the Facts on Homeownership workshop presentation materials that we shared with you last September.

All of the videos are housed on Freddie Mac’s YouTube channel.  We have created a playlist of all five videos to make it easy for you to view and share the videos.     

Reaching More Borrowers with the Videos

The YouTube series of videos introduces an excellent platform for you to strengthen your business development strategy by providing more borrowers with information that will put them in a better position to keep their home long term. To ensure widespread distribution of the videos to borrowers, we encourage you to add the video series to your Web site.  We’ve included easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions below.

How To Embed the YouTube Video Series into Your Web Site

1. Visit our playlist at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=487C6AE45A32F5A3.
2. Select the "Embed" button beneath the video.
3. You have the option to customize the size and color of the video player to best fit the design of your website.
4. Copy the HTML code provided by YouTube into your code editor in the appropriate place on your site.
5. Include text to summarize the video for your audience.

If you need assistance embedding these videos, please forward this e-mail to the manager of your Web site.

Leveraging the Get the Facts on Homeownership Workshop Presentation

Get the Facts on Homeownership is a set of tools that facilitate an interactive workshop to dispel common myths about homeownership and foreclosure.  You can:

• Use the workshop presentation materials to complement the distribution of the video series to your borrowers.
• Promote the workshops as the next step for borrowers to get the facts about foreclosure in an interactive, friendly, and open environment.