How to Get Out of the Foreclosure Crisis
Our nation is indeed in a crisis in regards to foreclosures. I believe the approach to take to solution would be to thoroughly examine how the crisis occurred and resolve that situation. However, that would be a short term solution. I recommend that we also consider how to prevent the situation from occurring again, thus presenting a long term solution. Let us look at the components of the current matter at hand by defining what is what.
I believe the best way to get out of our foreclosure crisis is to expand the pool of eligible buyers by changing the financing guidelines and increase funding for down-payment assistance. The American Dream has always been home ownership, and it will always be home ownership. One of the problems with the current market is that the mortgage industry has minimum limits of the amount of the loan. For example: if lenders only do mortgages of $150,000 or more, then a neighborhood where houses are being listed for $125,000 will sit and become blighted. The mortgage lenders have to adjust to the market instead of asking the market to adjust to it. A seller may ask for whatever amount they want for a house, but the maximum they are going to get is whatever the BUYER wants to offer. If the buyer cannot obtain financing for what they are willing to pay, then there is “No Deal.” The house sits, goes into foreclosure, and then the market value decreases even further. Until the mortgage industry starts to make loans that reflect the true fair market value (which I define as the amount a knowledgeable and willing buyer would offer AND a knowledgeable and willing seller would accept in a bona-fide, arms-length transaction), then the market will continue ...
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... sixty (60) months. This would allow the buyer of a mortgage the originator is trying to sell the opportunity to see if the borrower has been making the payments. In the current system, the buyer of a mortgage from a lender typically does not know the payment history of the borrower because the borrower has not made the first payment.
In summation, my recommendation to get out of the foreclosure crisis is to increase the number of buyers by reducing the price floor for lenders to do business, increase funding for down payment assistance, and for lenders to take a MUCH closer look at the repayment qualifications of potential buyers.
Resources
http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/03/real_estate/Hope_Now_helps_million/index.htm
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/Homefinancing/P148861.asp
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124657539489189043.html
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For the decades before the current housing crisis, buying homes and loaning money was a simple, but strict, affair and had had two outcomes. Either the borrower could pay back the money owed or they could not pay the money back. If the borrower could pay the money back, they could keep their house or whatever they took out the loan for. If they could not pay the money back, the lenders repossess the things that were not paid for. When this happens with a house, it is called foreclosure.
Part 2 Division 2, 11A – Original mortgage to confirm identity of mortgagor, As the mortgage in this case was entered into before section11A along with consequential provisions along with consequential provisions of the Queensland Land Title act 1994 were introduced.
An acceleration clause: Is a provision in a mortgage that provides the lender to collect the entire amount that a debtor owes in debt if the debtor becomes late even if one payment is missed.
...For people who have 30 years mortgage, their amortization will remain stuck in slow motion. So it is better to pay off the mortgage as soon as possible.
Lenders loan money. They try not to give it away. Places that give it away are called charities. If you fall behind on your payments, you will learn quickly that banks aren 't charities. Lenders also like to look at your payment history. Some people pay every payment on time. Banks love these people. They are considered low risk. Their credit scores are high. Everyone smiles when they think about these people. Some people pay every payment. They 're just not really very picky about when they get it paid. Banks kind of like these people because they get their money and make a little extra from late fees. They create extra work for the bank employees, but at least they get more money for their troubles. Other people eventually pay the loan,
To solve the foreclosure crisis we must take a multi-pronged approach that tackles the issues making the situation worse and that caused the problems in the first place. Our goal is to do this in an efficient and time conscious manner. Any solution is going to have its positive and negative aspects but we must try to maximize the former and minimize the latter.
...ary constraints. In order to get the payments lowered without having to come up with more money down, some lenders stretch the loan out to a longer term. Auto loans can last up to five or six years! Also, the longer the loan term, the more interest that ends up being paid in the end. Worst case scenario, when the car is finally all yours and the lender is paid in full, you’ve paid a ton of interest, have a seven year old used car with over 100k miles, and quite possibly repair bills.
The frequency of foreclosure in our nation today is dangerously high. The strain from the recent economic downturn has put many families and individuals in a financial chokehold preventing them from being able to make their monthly mortgage payments. Consequently, many of these people feel they’ve punched a one-way ticket to foreclosure. With all these homes being foreclosed on, we face a very real crisis.
...They also have the option of Deferment or Forbearance, and also the option to see if they qualify for Forgiveness, Cancellation, or Discharge. They are options available for borrowers instead of going into Default.
As foreclosure becomes a major problem in America people are looking for a way to save their homes without completely losing everything. Owning a home with a white picket fence is the American dream but in recent years it has become more of a nightmare. One way to fix the foreclosure problem would be to use social security as way to help pay for the debt they have accrued. Social security is set up to help Americans when they retire and also to help them in troubling situations such as, insurance for disability, veterans insurance, food stamps, unemployment insurance, and other forms of welfare. The government could use the social security fund as a way to help people out of debt and help save their homes from foreclosure. A plan that uses social security money to help people out of debt could be set up as a loan with a low interest rate attached. This loan could have a form of collateral attached in order to create a program where people are not just taking money with out responsibility and understand the value the given money carries. In order to determine what amount of money people would receive, a figure could be estimated based on their current jobs and how much they are estimated to receive from social security by the time they reach the age of retirement. This amount of money would equal their amount for their loan to help pay off their debt. Essentially people would be barrowing their social security money but would eventually be paying it back. Ideally when they go to retire they would not have lost any of their social security money. The loans must only be used to pay back debt on ones home and if used on something else, such as car payments, or are not paid back, then the person will receive less money then previou...
The foreclosure crisis has no simple solution since so many things affect it, but fixing each thing one by one will gradually help. Incentives for people to buy are fantastic ideas. The $8,000 tax credit to first time homeowners is a good start. There could be others that don’t exclude current homeowners. The first few months’ mortgage could be paid for, or provide furnished houses. President Obama is very intellectual and I think he has the capacity to make wise decisions and fix our foreclosure crisis.
Before we begin to implement any changes that will reverse and/or fix the foreclosure crisis, we need to understand the causes of the crisis. There are direct causes and correlative causes. The most direct causes have been discussed ad nauseum in the media. Some of these direct causes include; high (property) taxes, loss of jobs, resetting adjustable Rate mortgages, loss of credit rating (due to other causes that result in the inability of the borrower to pay bills on time or at all), medical bills (also a leading cause of bankruptcy) and an overall spend-thrift zeitgeist. These direct causes are easy to spot, but I believe that they are a distracting muse for our ire. The real causes for the foreclosure and overall financial crisis have more to do with laissez faire market system in general.
The study defines “default” is a risk to the repayment history of borrowers where the borrowers are missed at least three installments in 24 months. This showed a symbol and indication of borrower behavior will actually default to cease all repayments. This definition does not mean that the borrower had entirely stopped paying the loan and therefore been referred to collection or legal processes; or from an accounting perspective that the loan had been classified as bad or doubtful, or actually written-off (Pearson & Greeff, 2006).
A mortgage is a form of debt, secured by the warranty of a specific real estate property. The borrower is required to pay back the debt in predetermined payments. The most common reason for acquiring a mortgage is to purchase real estate when it cannot be paid for up front. The homebuyer, in a residential mortgage, pledges their home to the bank. Over a period of years, the borrower pays back the loan with interest. Once the mortgage is paid in entirety, the owner retains the property free of any charges. However, in case of foreclosure, the bank has an entitlement on the house, as a form of insurance should the buyer default on repaying the mortgage. The bank can then sell the house, and use the capital to pay back the remaining mortgage.