Can't Anybody Play This Game? The McCain Campaign Defies Belief

You know, we have llike seen this before. On health care: ... to immediately buy up the bad home loan mortgages in America and renegotiate at the new value of those ... McCain started with a tax credit that was equal in aggregate to the additional tax he levied [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 05:19:26

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Bailout developments reax

By TigerHawk at 9/24/2008 08:43:00 PM The president's speech was useful and important ... president could say: Easy credit — combined with the faulty assumption that home values would continue to rise — led to excesses and bad decisions. Many mortgage lenders approved loans for borrowers without [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 01:46:48

Taking Home Mortgage Loans

by John Bear If you are looking to refinance your current mortgage, there are several options available for you ... refinancing would involve taking a new mortgage, mortgage companies require you to present various ... that an applicant wouldn’t just do anything bad to tarnish their perfect credit report. So they approve a no doc [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:59:45

Life goals for 2009

This time last year, I had three New Year resolutions: pay off all consumer debt in four months, ... : Never miss payments on credit card and mortgage loan. Last year, I had two late payments ... two steps backward and one step forward in personal finance may not always be bad. Like buying [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 01:00:32

Topics In First Time Mortgages Explained

Topics In First Time Mortgages Explained Posted By Chris Channing on @ 11:30 pm by Chris Channing When it comes time to buy a house or vehicle, ... locations. Having a bad credit score often hinders many from even attempting to obtain a mortgage loan. This shouldn’t be a deciding factor, since many lenders these days expect most to have a less [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 04:30:38

Wall Street bailout plan to include more than bad mortgage debt: Feds to absorb unpaid bar bets, inadvertently laundered postage stamps, unredeemed soda cans and insufficient tooth-fairy disbursements

Totally absurd? Think twice: In the dark of night over the weekend when most people were snoozing, the Treasury dramatically expanded its bailout plan to include buying student loans, car loans, credit card debt and any other “troubled” assets held by banks. The changes, which were included [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 06:05:06

Buying a home with creative financing

With home prices falling and problems in mortgage markets continuing, buyers and sellers both stand to benefit from creative financing ... broker, even with bad credit. Before the growth of the subprime loan market, there were swindlers ... ,” for home buyers who didn’t meet traditional qualifications because of credit, income or job [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 14:31:04

Save My House

Save My House There is an attorney-based loss mitigation company with over 20-years of in-depth experience with foreclosure laws ... hardship that makes paying their mortgage impossible We can even help homeowners who have: Bad credit ... Every reason that disqualified a borrower for a refinance qualifies them for a loan modification [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 13:55:19

Bailout Nation: "If we bail out Detroit, where do we stop?"

The unprecedented government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has ushered in a new era of government intervention in corporate ... is a bad credit risk -- the corporate equivalent of a subprime borrower looking for a huge mortgage ... billion in low-interest loans, the L.A. Times reports. There are also whispers on Wall Street [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 00:30:25

Not with a bang but a whimper

This is how you lose liberty. If an FBI agent looks at a terrorist's library records or Larry Flint has to pay additional postage for child ... , this is a very bad idea: Sixteen House Democrats who opposed a similar bill realized ... mortgage interest rates closer to those on, for example, auto loans or credit cards. A bankruptcy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:55:08

2nd Mortgage Rate

2nd Mortgage Rate August 12th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed Do you own a home? ... . Applying for a home equity loan can be quick and painless. Even with bad credit, it may still ... or to purchase a car? Right now, mortgage rates are at the lowest they have been in decades [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 14:23:58

Devise your own Credit Repair Plan

by Rob Kosberg You found yourself in a very bad financial situation. You may feel emotional, hopeless, guilty or all of them ... . You will be particularly concerned with credit cards and perhaps small loans. List the cards with highest ... income. This is the amount of your salary that goes for necessities such as mortgage, car loans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 23:53:58

So, What Is A PMI?

Buying a home is a realization of a life long dream and for many a symbol of “making it” in life ... of the American and the world economy; many experts believe. Consumers with bad credit wishing to attain ... in order to recover the lost costs of the loan. Mortgages were a favourite way of buying homes before [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 09:42:48

Topics In First Time Mortgages Explained

Topics In First Time Mortgages Explained Posted By Chris Channing on @ 10: ... can be discounted as a tax write off where applicable. Having a bad credit score often hinders many from even attempting to obtain a mortgage loan. This shouldn’t be a deciding factor, since many [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 03:44:39

After the Bailout, Bank Stocks are a Bad Deal for Investors Now

The $250 billion bank bailout announced Monday is a great improvement on the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) ... have invested in troubled mortgage loans, relics of a home mortgage bubble that should never ... . You haven’t received Uncle Sam’s credit card bill yet. Under the new bailout plan, the government [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 12:59:00

The bailout may be killed by add-ons

The bailout may be killed by add-ons Posted Sep 22nd 2008 4:01AM by Douglas McIntyre Filed under: Deals, Bad news, Law, ... to potentially allow purchases of instruments such as car loans, credit-card debt and other devalued assets ... , if the plan is extended to include individual home mortgages and things like auto loans, the size [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 12:35:18

'Too Much House' Buyers To Be Rewarded?

The Treasury and FDIC are considering a plan to guarantee about $500 billion of bad mortgages in an attempt to reduce the total number of ... , and not their ability to afford the home. If homeowners also took out a home equity line of credit, no problem ... as 3 million loans into ones that homeowners would actually be able to afford (imagine that). In [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 15:51:36

The Bad Paper Chase

The Bad Paper Chase November 26th, 2008 admin And the handout/buyout craze continues ... such as credit cards, auto loans and student loans. By all means, let’s just keep buying up debts from people ... Loan Banks. It also will purchase another $500 billion in mortgage-backed securities, pools [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 07:37:00

FHA Guidelines On Bankruptcy

One of the most touching experiences loan officers go through when we conduct marketing campaigns seeking FHA mortgage prospects are the borrowers who call us wanting to buy a home for their family but they just have too much bad credit to overcome in order to qualify for even an FHA loan. Often they have a bankruptcy. First, here are FHA’ [more...]

Date: 2008-06-14 00:26:57

Basics of Reverse Mortgages

Basics of Reverse Mortgages Posted by Dark Spider at January 17, 2009 What is a reverse mortgage? ... profile fortune 500 bank, for whatever reason. If you have bad credit or questionable financial ... free card. It is a serious loan and therefore must be treated as one - if you know for sure [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 00:07:33

Welcome to the Finance Fiesta, buzzer-beater edition

(70 minutes left until Thursday’s over) Hi, everyone!  Welcome to this week’s Finance Fiesta! ... of mortgage loans. (66 minutes) College Finance 101 doesn’t mince words and says that a bad credit ... to getting a raise.  (No, washing the CEO’s car isn’t one of them.) (61 minutes) Blueprint [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 03:51:08

The bail-out may be killed by add-ons (pfblogs.org)

Filed under: Deals, Bad news, Law, HousingThe list of additions to the $700 billion Paulson bail-out plan could well kill it ... , "a change to potentially allow purchases of instruments such as car loans, credit-card debt and other ... , if the plan is extended to include individual home mortgages and things like auto loans, the size [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 08:51:01

Obama on McCain on buying up bad mortgages

Here’s Obama’s response to McCain’s mortgage buy-back proposal: Senator McCain and I had a chance to talk about this the other night in Nashville ... those loans to make a quick buck. We have to act to fix our broken economy and restore the credit ... with the financial crisis, and that was to have the government – meaning taxpayers – buy up bad [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 12:44:04

Monday: Bi-Partisan Bank Robbery?

I don’t pretend to understand Credit Derivative Swaps and financial ‘instruments’ and it looks like the people who have been playing with them for ... like the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) where the government would restructure and refinance bad mortgages from individual homeowners and make them affordable.  The theory goes that if those [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 12:26:24

Bush: 'Entire economy is in danger'

by Mark Silva President Bush, delivering a nationally televised appeal for an unprecedented federal buyout of $700 billion in bad mortgage debts, ... be more difficult for you to get the loans you need to buy a car or send your children to college ... , you would find it harder and more expensive to get credit. More businesses would close their doors [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 02:13:56

A Good Start

Chris Dodd’s plan: WASHINGTON (AP) — Judges could rewrite mortgages to lower bankrupt homeowners’ monthly payments as part of congressional ... including credit card debt or car loans — from any financial institution in the U.S. or abroad in order ... their bad assets on the government in the massive rescue would have to limit their executives’ pay [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 18:18:39

3rd Wave of Foreclosure Hits The Jobless

People With Traditional Mortgages Who Have Lost Their Jobs Are Now Facing Foreclosure (CBS) ... up. With a government job, good credit, and a 30 year fixed rate loan on her southern California house, Judy ... swept up are not greedy investors, or people who got in over their heads with bad loans, reports CBS [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 06:00:20

It's the Housing Market, Stupid

Bad real estate loans helped set off the global credit crunch. Can modifications on home mortgages speed a recovery? [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 11:37:35

Friday’s Rates on Thursday

Huh?  Since tomorrow is Independence Day, the bond markets will be closed…so I thought I would provide you with mortgage rates on today ... with a minimum credit score of 720, “full doc” purchase with a sales price of $500,000 and a loan ... %.   Rates should be doing great with all this bad news, right?  Not so fast!  It seems as though Wall Street [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 18:00:27

The Sand States

Here are excerpts from "The End" in Portfolio by Michael Lewis, author of Liar's Poker, on the financial collapse ... in asking home­owners with bad credit and no proof of income to put no money down and defer interest ... states. The loans would have been made by one of the more dubious mortgage lenders; Long Beach Financial [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 00:44:27

What You Need to Know About Refinancing

by Mary Bush Refinance loans allow you to take an old loan or several old loans, and redo your deal ... . It is the easiest way out of a foreclosure, but with bad credit, interest rates will be high. The current ... . In today’s economy, some banks are refinancing mortgages so that distressed homeowners can better [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 19:08:13

What You Need to Know About Refinancing

by Mary Bush Refinance loans allow you to take an old loan or several old loans, and redo your deal ... . It is the easiest way out of a foreclosure, but with bad credit, interest rates will be high. The current ... . In today’s economy, some banks are refinancing mortgages so that distressed homeowners can better [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:05:01

Can We Stop Falling House Values? An Op Ed by the NAHB

This is excerpts from an op ed piece written by Steve Hodgkins ... mortgage lending boom send housing prices way too high because credit was too easy?   Or did housing prices fall because those loans went bad?   Or both? Falling values have decimated the single-family [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 15:19:51

Can We Stop Falling House Values? An Op Ed piece by the NAHB

This is excerpts from an op ed piece written by Steve Hodgkins ... mortgage lending boom send housing prices way too high because credit was too easy?   Or did housing prices fall because those loans went bad?   Or both? Falling values have decimated the single-family [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 15:32:05

Quit Blaming Democrats or Obama for Economic Meltdown

By Rowan Wolf Republicans and the "right" have been yelling that the mortgage crisis which toppled the economic house of shaky cards is the fault ... often inappropriate for buyers with bad credit. -Banks would have been required to increase efforts ... guidelines for banks writing risky loans. Today, in the midst of the worst housing recession [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 15:57:31

Record rate of repos in 2008

Filed under: Etc. The mortgage meltdown and the financial crisis on Wall St ... that automakers were doling out bad loans just like the banks, but that's not entirely true. The high amount of luxury vehicles being repo'd have gone up as well, and many of those buyers have very good credit [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 13:41:02

BIG Problems Need Simple Solutions; A Bailout Plan that Works

Two months ago, hardly anyone knew of credit default swaps, commercial paper, mortgage backed securities, and mark to market accounting ... removed from Wall Street and Capitol Hill. People took out loans that were leveraged against property ... , what we desperately need is a simple solution for people who borrowed too much money and made a bad [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 20:38:59

Rising Default Risk In Pro-Forma Commercial Loans

The bond market is reeling from rising default risk in Pro-Forma Commercial Mortgages ... Federal Credit Union in New York. “They were underwritten with outlandish expectations on rents ... are starting to turn bad. In New York City, Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, a housing complex in downtown [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 03:34:00

GA Bad Credit Refinance With FHA

by Brenda Puckett You cannot turn on the news without seeing a new headline trumpeting the meltdown of the mortgage industry ... counties and $271,050 in rural Georgia counties. You may still be able to qualify for an FHA loan. FHA ... had starting rates in the low 5 percent range jumping up 8, 8.5 or 9! Subprime loan rates can be moving even [more...]

Date: 2008-07-20 09:31:03

Mortgage Rates following a Dismal Jobs Report

This mornings Jobs Report was ugly. 240,000 non-farm jobs lost in October (higher than the expected 200,000) and unemployment at 6.5% ... with a sales price of $500,000 and a loan amount of $400,000. Rates are priced based on a low-mid credit score ... . Equally bad are the revisions to August and September's figures reflecting additional losses [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 16:48:53

Don’t learn all the wrong lessons about creative mortgages

This is my column for last week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link) ... if their loans were properly secured by good credit, steady income and valuable assets ... market is in a state of incipient recovery. Will there be more bad news? Certainly. There are still [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 17:51:06

Don’t learn all the wrong lessons about creative mortgages

This is my column for last week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link) ... if their loans were properly secured by good credit, steady income and valuable assets ... market is in a state of incipient recovery. Will there be more bad news? Certainly. There are still [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 17:48:22

There’s more to the mortgage relief bill than just mortgage relief

This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link) ... 1st, seller-paid down-payment assistance grants will be outlawed for FHA loans. This is bad news ... down-payment assistance, introducing the new-buyer tax-credit and revising the capital gains exclusion [more...]

Date: 2008-08-09 15:10:25

With Things So Bad In The Economy…

…why is this happening: You know what I got in the mail yesterday? An offer from my credit card company, for a $50,000 unsecured personal loan. Did you catch that? Unsecured. That amount of money would require me to make the equivalent of another mortgage payment to repay them. That offer came as a result of our credit rating, and we would [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 15:47:13

The Bad Paper Chase

And the handout/buyout craze continues. The Federal Reserve said Tuesday it will buy up to $600 billion in mortgage-backed assets in another attempt ... obligations from mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as the Federal Home Loan Banks ... also unveiled a new program to help unfreeze the market that backs consumer debt such as credit cards [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 00:46:42

Time Mag: What Would the Talmud Do about the Credit Crisis?

Author: JewcyTodd Posted to Jewcy: October 13, 2008 4: ... expanded this into a general prohibition on bad advice. In time, it became part of the language ... to the whole loan debacle and "any expert who tells someone who probably shouldn't take out a mortgage [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 21:03:04

Credit Crisis Sequel, Global Bank Bailout, Emerging Markets Still a Buy?, Gas Wars and More!

Ghosts of the fourth quarter haunt global financials… so begins the second act of the credit saga… Even the IMF needs a loan… $150 billion to back ... advice… with S&P 500 price targets… Plus, Russia-Ukraine gas dispute not yet over… a reader ... predicted today. According to Morgan’s report, profits at HSBC will decline “sharply” this year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:28:24

TARP’s Original Mandate MUST be Executed

“This program is intended to fundamentally and comprehensively address the root cause of our financial system’s stresses by removing distressed ... they finally create an entity to bundle toxic and mostly illiquid assets, the credit crisis will continue ... demanded the creation of an entity to place bad assets under one roof. But the Treasury has since [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:35:39

Profiting from Payday Loans in 2009

On an otherwise normal evening in 1964, a woman known as “Miss Witness” received a disturbing telephone call from alleged loan shark Frank Sacco ... . Prices are still crashing - currently sitting about 35% below a year earlier. Credit is nearly frozen. Banks and credit card companies alike are buckling down and leaving very little money free [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:38:12

Bernanke Casts Doubt on Stimulus, Says Fed May Buy Toxic Assets to Loosen Credit

Warning that the timing of an economic recovery is “highly uncertain,” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said yesterday (Tuesday) ... about the continuing chokehold banks have put on credit to companies and households than he is about offering ... of the economy where liquidity has dried up for “credit easing”, reported the Guardian. “Credit sprea [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:57:59

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