Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Intercepted from inter-office emails:
Great News,
We are now offering Fannie’s new HomePath loan program! Let your clients know these improved loan terms to generate new business. Essentially, the program has the clients using Fannie loans to buy foreclosed properties owned by Fannie, therefore Fannie gives improved loan terms to the buyer.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
-97% FINANCING WITH NO MORTGAGE INSURANCE ( That’s a lower monthly payment and lower closing costs)
-90% FINANCING ON INVESTMENT PROPERTIES
-NO APPRAISAL REQUIRED SAVING YOUR CLIENT TIME AND MONEY (Value is selling price determined by listing bank)
-CONDO’S AND 2-4 UNITS OK
-TODAY’S HOMEPATH 30 YR RATES AT 5.0%, 5 YR ARM’S AT ONLY 3.875% !!
TO SEE A ELIGIBLE PROPERTIES IN YOUR AREA SIMPLY GO TO WWW.HOMEPATH.COM
Email or call me with client loan scenario’s that can benefit from this awesome program.
Successfully [not Sincerely],
[Loan Guy]
It seems we’ve heard this before?
Tags: buying, Cheap Money, Fannie Mae, foreclosure, Foreclosures, lending, loans, mortgage crisis
Posted in Mortgage/Rates | 6 Comments »
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
This by Marc Herrenbruck (No way I could come up with this!):
“Crazy times. Whatever the political posturing, a plan needs to be passed. Credit markets are frozen and banks are going bust every day. This is not totally because of “toxic” mortgages. This has a lot to do with FASB 157, also known as “mark to market”.
Each day lenders must mark their assets to the marketplace. It’s like you having to appraise your home everyday and if your neighbor was under duress because they got very ill, divorced, lost their job and was forced to sell their home quickly they may have sold it super cheap. Now, does that mean your house is worth that super cheap price? Clearly not. Why? Because you are not under duress. You have the time to sell your home and get a more normal price, which more accurately reflects true market conditions. But “mark to market” does not allow for this, which creates a vicious cycle.
Why is this so bad? Because as lenders mark down their assets the amount that they have loaned previously becomes much riskier in relation to their assets. For example, say a bank has $1 million in assets and say they have $15 million in loans outstanding. Their ratio is an acceptable 15 to 1. But should they take a paper write down of $500 thousand due to “mark to market” requirements, their ratio suddenly changes to 30 to 1. This is because their assets are now only $500 thousand after taking the paper loss, while their loans outstanding are $15 million. And at 30 to 1 this bank is viewed as a risky investment. So the stock price starts to get hit, it becomes harder to borrow, and most importantly harder to make money. The bank is then forced to sell some of its loans to reduce its ratio…at cheap prices. And this makes the vicious cycle continue. (more…)
Tags: banks, lending, mortgage crisis
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