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Is This What the Future Holds?

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Real Estate Agent with Allred Realty

I received a call today from a very good friend that said "I need help, Dan can you help me get out of this loan?"

The situation is he thought he had a 5 year fixed then adjust..it began adjusting after 2 years. He thought he had a heloc 2nd it is a hard money second. He thought it would adjust a little... it adjusted four (4) points and that is out of reach. Now this friend of mine needs help and feels completely betrayed by somebody we both know.

I want to help him and have begun working with him to hopefully save his house through dealing with the lender because of hardship. He is behind and part is due to a severe hardship he recently encountered...a heart attack followed by heart surgery! I am in touch with people who hopefully will help him save his house and get him to a position to get his payment back where he can afford it.

I am afraid this story is going to become very normal in the near future and we as professionals need to have answers for those that will be asking the question "how can you help me save my house?" what is your plan? How will you answer this question? What can you do to help? any and all comments are welcome!

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Marlene Bridges
Village Real Estate Services, Inc. - Laguna Hills, CA
Laguna Homes|Laguna Condos|Laguna Real Estate

Hopefully this will be the exception rather than the rule.  I think there were many lenders who didn;t understand the products they were selling.  And, then, there were some who knew and didn't care.

Sep 18, 2007 05:12 PM
Dan Allred
Allred Realty - Thousand Oaks, CA
DRE#01761967
Marlene- I would hope the first is true and believe for some it is but at the same time I believe that the second is true also. I strongly think there are several people who knowingly mis-led or misrepresented people that trusted them to take loans that only earned a paycheck for the one selling it and had no interest at all for the well being of the customer.
Sep 18, 2007 05:21 PM
Kaushik Sirkar
Call Realty, Inc. - Chandler, AZ
These are some of the reasons why we need tighter regulation and/or licensing for lenders as well as Realtors...
Sep 18, 2007 05:35 PM