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WHY DON'T WE OFFER INCENTIVES TO HELP PEOPLE AVOID FORECLOSURE???

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with All Star Real Estate PB00008256

Many incentives are now being considered by various banks, including Fannie Mae.  Some the incentives they are considering to help sell their foreclosures faster, include reducing the interest rate by 2% over the 1st 2 years.  Not only are many foreclosures being sold at 50 - 60 cents on the dollar, or less, but they are now offering incentives on top of that?

Why aren't these incentives being offered to the current home owner in an effort to avoid foreclosure!!!

Chances are excellent that the current home owner could make the payments at 50-60 cents on the dollar plus incentives!!!

Most of the wealthy investors purchasing these foreclosures already have more breaks than they can handle, why help them take more, ultimately at the tax payer's expense?

Common Sense has become a very difficult thing to find ............

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Juli Vosmik
Dominion Fine Properties - Scottsdale, AZ
Scottsdale/Cave Creek, AZ real estate 480-710-0739

AMEN!!!!!  I ask that EVERY day!!!

Jul 11, 2010 07:47 AM
Bill Dean
Haggerty Team St. Louis, Mo. - Fenton, MO
William Dean - Broker, Salesperson

Very good point Steve!   The problem is common sense is a completely foreign concept to many folks... esp. the banks!  I just met with a homeowner who has a first and second with the same bank and their best offer so far is to offer $50/ month off their second loan!  Payments are $2k /mo.  The banks are like the monkey with his hand in a fishbowl full of $$$$.  To get his hand back out he has to let go of some of the money.

Jul 11, 2010 08:04 AM
Joni Kerley
CENTURY21 Real Estate Center - Everett, WA

I agree thanks for posting it.

 

Jul 11, 2010 08:06 AM
Steve Hula
All Star Real Estate - Clarksville, AR
All Star Real Estate - Team Hula

Please tell everyone you know to apply some pressure by contacting their Congressman and Senators to let them know we have the solution to the foreclosure melt down that has plagued our economy. It's to bad the "Fat Cats" who benefit from the foreclosure situation are the same ones in charge of making the rules. 

Jul 11, 2010 08:13 AM
Steve Hula
All Star Real Estate - Clarksville, AR
All Star Real Estate - Team Hula

Every day I see homes being foreclosed on, with new mortgage payments approx 2/3rds, sometimes 1/2, of what the foreclosed home owner was paying at their 8%+ mortgage rate.  The reason the previous owner's rate was so high, was because they had trouble making some medical payments for their daughter who was hit by an uninsured motorist, which makes them a bad risk, thus the high rate.  (But that's another story).

Jul 11, 2010 08:22 AM