Real Estate News Blog California April Archive

An unsettling adjustment

By Art C Ryter at 04/17/07 18:58

Presents the case of San Diego residents trying to sell their home before defaulting on their mortgage or losing their home to foreclosure. Although the couple makes over $90,000, their mortgage payments are rising at astonishingly high rates. Many similar cases are happening across the nation: Homebuyers bought homes with the intent to refinance within a year in order to reduce their monthly payment instead got stiffed with a high payment, an overvalued property, and rising interest rates. The article has a section on places to get help to avoid foreclosure.

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Impossible loan turns dream home into nightmare

Presents the story of a couple of first time homebuyers duped into a home priced above its assessed value and financed with a loan that was impossible to maintain on a farm laborer budget. Lenders and real estate agents in the case were potentially short of criminal in selling the house and financing to the two families involved. The article has a nice advice section which advocates seeking a lawyer to help read the financial mumbo jumbo if you are not able to do it, contact HUD for a free appraisal of the lending terms, and beware. Seek help with your loan and avoid foreclosure before it’s too late.

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For Distressed Homeowners, Short Sales Stave Off Credit Ruin

Discusses short sales, selling a property for a loss rather than a profit, as a way for troubled homeowners to avoid foreclosure and ruining their future ability to buy a home. Short sales can be difficult to orchestrate to avoid foreclosure because buyers, sellers and lenders must agree on the sale price and determine who pays takes and how much is written off. People looking at the prospects of losing their home to forclosure due to upward adjusting interest rates would do well to look into short selling.

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