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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that five California brokers sold “unsuitable” securities to customers, primarily variable universal life policies (VUL). “Most 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
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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. But homebuyers who plan to be in their homes for years, or do not expect a significant increase in income by the time the monthly payments go up, should carefully consider the risks and advantages of adjustable-rate loans. 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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Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
Million Foreclosures
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
Through November, RealtyTrac tallied nearly 130,000 properties that entered some stage of foreclosure in California alone during 2006; accounting for roughly 11 percent of the nation’s foreclosures for the same period. seem to indicate that California is economically sound and stable. Still, enough of the prime indicators are projected to turn and remain A dubious honor at best, the Golden State maintained a level of foreclosure activity during the past year that kept it in the nation’s upper echelon in terms of state foreclosure totals. The state hit its peak towards the end
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. But homebuyers who plan to be in their homes for years, or do not expect a significant increase in income by the time the monthly payments go up, should carefully consider the risks and advantages of adjustable-rate loans. 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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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that five California brokers sold “unsuitable” securities to customers, primarily variable universal life policies (VUL). “Most 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
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Bush Foreclosure Solution Just Adds Water
The provision that is the focus of the White House proposal goes to the crux of the bill – to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude discharges of indebtedness on principal residences from gross income. At present, under the Tax Code a homeowner who loses a home to foreclosure has to pay income taxes on any portion of the mortgage debt the lender may decide to forgive. It wasn’t very long ago that President George W. Bush came out with a public policy statement negating any possibility of either a homeowner, or a lender bailout, given the impact the current mortgage
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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