DON'T FEEL GUILTY....

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Guilt ridden thinking about Defaulting on your mortgage?

Wayne Landon: Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2011 1:32 PM

Before you beat yourself up to badly, read the following  news report. Five major mortgage lenders could be facing concessions totaling $19 billion as bank representatives and government officials put finishing touches on a settlement for wrongful mortgage foreclosures, sources have told The Wall Street Journal. Officials have been working with banks for months to determine how they should be held responsible for the mortgage robo-signingscandal  but some states expressed concerns that the deal on the table doesn’t meet their expectations.   The banks involved in the settlement are the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers: Ally Financial Inc., Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., J.P.Morgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.   While specifics of the settlement have not been disclosed, banks are expected to be responsible for least $19 billion in concessions that could include principal write-downs and interest-rate reductions for homeowners, as well cash penalty payments to the government.   The total amount could jump to as much as $25 billion if California, which accounted for 13.1 percent of all mortgages outstanding and 10.8 percent of all loans in foreclosure, joins in the deal. The state walked away from settlement talks in September.   So how do you feel now, guilty or angry? If you follow mortgage default news like I do, you would note that very reputable news outlets are pointing the finger at the banking community for the mess we have. They are the ones who created the exotic mortgages that few people understood, to fuel the expansion of new mortgages. They want to blame the public for being so stupid, the government for insisting on more mortgages, and Wall Street for bundling mortgages into bond funds to provide liquidity.   They should be brought to their knees like Arthur Anderson for the Enron scandal, but that is not practical, only wishful thinking.   If you want to explore how you deal with your underwater mortgage checkout www.jwlproperties.net for solutions that meet your needs, not those of the banking community

Principal Reduction Will Solve The Housing Crisis ...

Are the geniuses that created this mess at the banks going to keep telling us how impossible this concept is when nothing they do even dents the problem, but actually continues to exacerbate it? Principal reduction will not only help us out of the housing crisis, but will stimulate the economy! 


This is a great article from Realty Times, written by Tanya Marchiol.


See this link for more info.....
   
   http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20111202_principalreduction.htm

                                         


Sorry Readers & Fans (LOL),  I have been very busy working on Multi-Family deals and haven't written a Blog in almost a month.  If you have Apartments you want to SELL or BUY,  please contact me ASAP.


Sincerely,  Larry Tutino

UN-FLIPPIN-BELIEVABLE

The CEO of Freddie Mac, Ed Haldeman, received a $2.3 million bonus, in addition to his $900,000 salary. Fannie Mae's CEO, Michael Williams, received a $2.37 million bonus.

"The executives got the bonuses about two years after the federally backed mortgage giants received nearly $170 billion in taxpayer bailouts…" [my emphasis] In August of this year, Fannie Mae reported a second-quarter loss of$5.2 billion. In November, Freddie Mac reported a third-quarter loss of $4.4billion.

Read the complete story at... http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20111108_occupy.htm

How can this be happening ???

Do YOU have Effective Negative Equity ??

What is ENE ?? (effective negative equity)

 'effective' negative equity,
is  when  borrowers/homeowners  who have so little equity in their homes, they cannot afford to move.


Consider the following from mortgage
analyst Mark Hanson:


On US totals, if you figure average house
prices use conforming loan balances, then a repeat buyer has to
have roughly 10% down to buy in addition to the 6% Realtor fee to
sell. Thus, the effective negative equity target would be 85%.
You also have to factor in secondary financing, which most
measures leave out.  Based on that, over 50% of all mortgaged
households in the US are effectively underwater — unable to
sell for enough to pay a Realtor and put a down payment on a new
purchase without coming out of pocket.
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Special thanks to:
 Chris McLaughlin, who is widely known as America’s top
Real Estate Attorney and Investment Consultant.

                         

CHASE BANK RUINED THEIR LIVES !!!

How Chase Ruined Lives of People Who Paid Off Their Mortgages

Matt Taibbi, in giving a well deserved thrashing to the banking industry’s Tokyo Rose, aka New York Fed director Kathryn Wylde, said:

[S]tealing is pretty much the worst thing that a bank can do — and these banks just finished the longest and most orgiastic campaign of stealing in the history of money.

Once you read the allegations in the cases included in this post, I strongly suspect you will agree that the “ruining lives” in the headline is not an exaggeration. And as important, these two cases, with very similar fact sets, also suggest that these abuses are not mere “mistakes”. These are clearly well established practices that Chase can’t be bothered to clean up, since cleaning them up costs money and letting them continue is more profitable.

Both cases took place in Alabama. In both cases, the borrowers had made every mortgage payment on time. One was a couple with three children, the Barnetts. The second is a widow, Besty Barlow, but her husband was still alive when this ugly saga started.

In both cases, the house burned down, The borrowers both had homeowners’ insurance.

Read more at... http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/how-chase-ruined-lives-of-people-who-paid-off-their-mortgages.html

In other words, this is the banking version of exploding Pintos. Ford did not fix the defect in its fuel tank design because they figured it would cost less to pay out the damages on claims for death and dismemberment than fix the design flaw. Similarly, Chase evidently figures it can bulldoze people, extract more fees from them by engaging in conduct that is unquestionably against the law (see the cases for details), and maybe once in a while it gets caught and has to write a big check.

Read more at... http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/how-chase-ruined-lives-of-people-who-paid-off-their-mortgages.html

UNSATISFIED WITH THE BANKS......

"Many homeowners who are still in home loans that were originated between 2006 and 2008 -- when home values peaked and credit standards were the most lax -- would like to refinance, but can’t because they either don’t have enough equity in their home due to falling home prices or their credit profile doesn’t meet today’s tougher standards," said David Lo, director of financial services at J.D. Power and Associates.

"This has become increasingly frustrating to homeowners and a big contributor to their dissatisfaction," said Lo. "They are unable to take advantage of interest rates that have declined to historic lows. The challenge for legislators and lenders is to find a way to help not only homeowners at risk of default, but also this increasingly frustrated group of homeowners who are caught in loans with unfavorable terms and no ability to change them," Lo said.

"Excellence in mortgage servicing revolves around minimizing problems and addressing them quickly and efficiently when they do occur," said Lo.

This report is from Realty Times online news at......

http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20110818_mortgage.htm

What is Cash 4 Keys ??

Here is an excellent explanation of the CASH FOR KEYS program that you may qualify for and could certainly use. Get some money to move on.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-cash-for-keys.htm

Don't be afraid.......negotiate and be patient.

Larry, Blog Founder

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