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Times are Tight- We Need to Change the Way we Think

Times are no doubt tight.  This Christmas will be the tightest ever for many people.  We are all learning how we can save a nickel here and there.  For my family and friends, giving to the needy seems to be at an all-time low.  I have found myself avoiding adding just a few cents to [...]

JP Morgan Chase to Resume Foreclosures Later This Month

Many of the pundits have looked for a long delay in foreclosures to create a glut of REOS in Arizona including Prescott and Prescott Valley.  Well, the delay has been called off and we should have a steady supply of foreclosures in the next few months.   One thing folks need to understand is that banks are [...]

60% of Performing Borrowers from 2006-2007 are Underwater on their Mortgages

Is your Prescott or Prescott Valley Home Like This?

Fitch Ratings-New York-13 October 2009: With a majority of borrowers in U.S. RMBS transactions owing more on their mortgages than their homes are currently worth, negative home equity is preventing sustained improvement in U.S. mortgage performance, according to the new monthly report ‘Fitch RMBS Performance [...]

Payment option ARMs are about to explode in Arizona

State magistrates met last week to discuss strategies for combatting mortgage fraud and the topic of payment option ARMs was a central theme.  

 In Arizona – one of the states hardest hit by the mortgage crisis – 128,000 option ARMs will reset in the next year, State Attorney General Terry Goddard told Reuters. The San [...]

No one signs their mortgage planning on foreclosure, but…

“Life is what happens while you’re making other plans.” Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland’s Opus

No one moves into a home and takes on a mortgage planning on foreclosure.   But divorce, medical issues, job loss, job transfers, and life changes can all lead to to foreclosure or short sale. If your bad luck is temporary, you [...]

Change is good: $8,000 tax credit now ineligible for down payment

Many lenders, real estate agents, and home builders applauded when HUD said it would let banks and local governments offer short-term “bridge loans” to cover the down payment for first-time buyers eligible for the tax credit. The loans would have been available to applicants for federally insured mortgages such as Federal Housing Administration loans. 

See:  [...]

Banks to unleash a phantom inventory of foreclosures say some

A new wave of foreclosures is getting ready to hit the market as a result of the pressure being placed on banks by investors and the US Government to increase their assets.  This includes selling off assets, issuing stock (see WSJ article yesterday, More Banks Tackle TARP, Capital Gaps), and liquidating their REO (real estate owned) assets.   This [...]

Thinking about buying a home in Prescott or Prescott Valley? Read this!

From Tom Henichek, a local loan officer at Mountain Mortgage

 

Tom Henichek

Thinking of buying a home in the Prescott, Arizona area?  Perhaps one of the foreclosed or REO homes? 

 

Chase loan modification plan to benefit shareholders not homeowners

Loan Modification

Is anyone else skeptical of Chase Bank’s newest efforts to do loan modifications for up to 400,000 of their customers?  Call me a stick in the mud, but I have a hard time believing that banks are doing this for their client’s benefit.  To me it seems like they are doing this [...]

REALTOR.com report shows mixed view of homeownership

“IT REQUIRES A GREAT DEAL OF BOLDNESS AND A GREAT DEAL OF CAUTION TO MAKE A GREAT FORTUNE.”   Ralph Waldo Emerson.

This might have been the title on the new report out by Realtor.com earlier this month based on survey data.  The results of the survey are based on interviews conducted from March 6 to [...]