You might be writing a hardship letter for any variety of reasons: loan modification, short sale, or several others. This particular article relates to writing a short sale hardship letter, but most of the hardship letter guidelines and certainly the hardship letter sample is useful for almost any type of hardship letter.
A lot of people think that they won't qualify for a short sale because their income is too high, or they don't want to short sale because they think it will damage their credit score. The truth is, all homeowners qualify for a short sale and a short sale can be done without missed payments, resulting in very little credit damage.