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Our Declaration of FHA Financing !!! - Issues regarding the 3% seller concession proposal - Can we fight FHA Loans with solutions?? - YES !!!
 
IMPORTANT CALL TO ACTION - Hot topic - Reduction of seller concessions on FHA loans to 3% max
 
 
I wrote this article the other day, HUD seeks public comment on three main issues for FHA loans. - The main issue and focal point is that FHA wants to reduce the seller concession from 6% to 3%. I can understand why. Two reasons I can think of :
1. The real estate market has crashed and home values have dropped significanly in some areas, that homes are upside down. Some feel that with a FHA mortgage, that you basically start underwater if you need to sell quickly.
2. HUD/FHA feels that home values are inflated some, pushed a tad higher to cover the seller concessions so that it actually doesn't come out of the seller's pocker per se. This is an never ending argument by several.
 
 

So we have a slight debate from some thinking that anyone receiving 3% to 6% seller help is to much. And then we have another side that feel that making 3% as a maximum percentage, that it could cripple an already devistated real estate market.

The basic argument - ... more

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