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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
Most investors who bought these securities,” says the SEC, “lacked the cash or income to do so, but were urged by their brokers to raise the money to pay for the purchases and the monthly payments required for these products by refinancing their fixed-rate mortgages into subprime adjustable-rate negative amortization mortgages.” According to the SECs complaint “each defendant was a mortgage broker as well as a registered representative and collected compensation from the mortgage refinancings as well as the sales of securities. The remaining mortgages — perhaps a million or more
www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
You say you want to buy a home but have no money. Let me introduce you to the option ARM, an affordability mortgage product that can get you into the home of your dreams.... According to Fitch "the potential average payment increase on this recasting population is 63 percent, representing on average an additional $1,053 due each month on top of the current average payment of $1,672." You dont have to be a math major to figure out what will happen next: Huge numbers of option ARMs will fail in the next 24 to 30 months Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G.
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Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
More significantly — and unlike Wachovia’s competitors — it’s making it easier for borrowers to dump option-ARMs by waiving the prepayment penalties routinely associated with such loans. “Effectively immediately,” says the company, “Wachovia is waiving all prepayment fees associated with its Pick-A-Pay mortgage to allow customers complete flexibility in their home financing decisions. Additionally, for all new loan originations, Wachovia is discontinuing offering products that include payment options resulting in negative amortization.” “This is one of the most-enlightened decisions
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  • Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
    More significantly — and unlike Wachovia’s competitors — it’s making it easier for borrowers to dump option-ARMs by waiving the prepayment penalties routinely associated with such loans. “Effectively immediately,” says the company, “Wachovia is waiving all prepayment fees associated with its Pick-A-Pay mortgage to allow customers complete flexibility in their home financing decisions. Additionally, for all new loan originations, Wachovia is discontinuing offering products that include payment options resulting in negative amortization.” “This is one of the most-enlightened decisions
    www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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  • Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
    You say you want to buy a home but have no money. Let me introduce you to the option ARM, an affordability mortgage product that can get you into the home of your dreams.... According to Fitch "the potential average payment increase on this recasting population is 63 percent, representing on average an additional $1,053 due each month on top of the current average payment of $1,672." You dont have to be a math major to figure out what will happen next: Huge numbers of option ARMs will fail in the next 24 to 30 months Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G.
    www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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  • The Government Goes After Loan Officers
    Most investors who bought these securities,” says the SEC, “lacked the cash or income to do so, but were urged by their brokers to raise the money to pay for the purchases and the monthly payments required for these products by refinancing their fixed-rate mortgages into subprime adjustable-rate negative amortization mortgages.” According to the SECs complaint “each defendant was a mortgage broker as well as a registered representative and collected compensation from the mortgage refinancings as well as the sales of securities. The remaining mortgages — perhaps a million or more
    www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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  • Betting Everything on the House: 3 Risky Loans to Avoid
    Yet many homeowners — particularly in California, Florida and Colorado — are still purchasing or refinancing their mortgages with “exotic” loans that may keep their monthly payments low now, but when these gimmicky loans “reset” upward borrowers could lose their homes if they haven’t planned for an increased monthly mortgage payment. Homeowners can opt to pay both the interest and principal on a fully amortized loan. Falling prices, sluggish sales and risky loans that let borrowers pile up debt faster than they can pay it off could put more homeowners out of their houses this year than at any other time this decade.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
    million homes are likely to be in the "process of foreclosure" during the coming 12 to 18 months. If a typical home has an average sale price of about $220,000 (many homes now facing foreclosure were financed several years ago with two loans, thus first loans are often significantly less than current market values), and if the average mortgage is $176,000 (80 percent of market values) then the total value of such mortgages would be $440 billion. If the Peter Miller, author of the Common-Sense Mortgage, has offered up some alternatives to the proposed $700 billion bailout plan.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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