Is NAR Just Proposing a Band-Aid Solution

By
Services for Real Estate Pros with Barbara Corregano Real Estate
After reading what NAR is proposing to stimulate our market it seems to me its just not enough.  Increasing the loan limits will help a few but the people who really need the help are not the jumbo loan homeowners, but the people who have mortgages that are below that guideline.  In my office the houses that we are doing short sales on are not the owners with the jumbo rate mortgages but the middle of the road homeowner.  The single mother who bought a home and was sold monthly mortgage payments that when it adjusted was more then she could pay.  Or the first time buyer who also was sold a mortgage that they could never pay.  I also read about a homeless woman who was given a loan to buy her very first home, a lone that she could never pay. Her only income was her disability check.  These are the people who need to be helped and I am sure they didn't have a lone over $417.00.  Why are we so worried about the jumbo mortgage holder and not the people who really need the help.  
Posted by

Kathy Wynn

NYS Licensed bBroker

Barbara Corregano Real Estate

85C Page Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10309

 

Comments (3)

Brian Wentz
Keller Williams Greater Des Moines - Des Moines, IA
Realtor - Des Moines Iowa Real Estate
Kathy ~ Those Jumbo holders could have a buch bigger hit on the markets, than a $100,000 mortgage would. But, I also think the secondary markets will snap back over the next year. even with the losses, there is just too much profit potential for lenders to stay where they are as of this moment!
Jan 17, 2008 12:38 PM
Rob Arnold
Sand Dollar Realty Group, Inc. - Altamonte Springs, FL
Metro Orlando Full Service - Investor Friendly & F
FHA mortgages are still around.  FHA Secure allows ARM mortgage owners to refinance.  New buyers are only required to put 3% and that can be gifted to them. 
Jan 17, 2008 12:50 PM
Concetta Pepenella-Timmons
Remax Metro Staten Island, New York - Staten Island, NY
Associate Broker
Regarding the single mother/woman who bought into an adjustable rate loan...... I have a customer in the same situation. At the time the bank didn't fully explain the ramifications of the adjustable life and now she is struggling to meet her payment, refinance or sell, and keep her credit in tact. Theses are the people who need a life saver from "The Government."
Jan 17, 2008 11:30 PM

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