home lenders refinance mortgage

January 5, 2011

is foreclosure the only option?

rebelwithacause asked:


We have second note on house for $15,000.00. (loan was made for home improvements over 2 years ago)…..The 1st home loan is for $101,000.00..We can not qualify for a deed in lieu due to having a second note…. A Short Sell is also apparently out because home is worth MORE (not less) than what is owed on it, but its not selling because noone can get a loan (house has been on the market for 3 months at market value and was reduced in price again). Also have home for sale with a lease/option…(we used a realtor and not For Sale by Owner because we wanted the process to go quick) ….Cant get 2nd loan off the house so we can sell the house for less until the loan is payed off in full… but cant do that until we sell the home…We arent even asking for a profit, we just want enough to pay off loans and the realtor fees and closing costs…We cant save our home and continue to make house payments because of loss of wages from cut backs at work.. Cant refinance because house is For Sale…….and if we could refinace it wouldnt save us from being in the same situation a few months from now (we would only save about $100.00 a month)…Cant rent a room as everyone is moving back in with mom and dad these days. We can not rent the house out to cover the cost of both morgtage notes and afford a roof over our heads too.. No one will work with us until we miss our morgatage payments (which will be very soon.. 3 months AFTER i warned the lenders of the hardship with weekly calls and letters)….and got nothing but the run around for the last few months from the lenders AND a housing counselor …. Now if our home is “FORCED” (and the key word here is “forced”) into foreclosure and the house sells for MORE than the pay off “Will they pay off the second loan also ? or come after us for that too ?? Is there any other option that we may have over looked….We just want to save our credit so we can start fresh again when the economy finally gets better..We will not consider borrowing money from family or friends who are also struggling and we will not consider using our credit cards to survive this economy down fall either….WHAT IS LEFT ? They want our homes and now they apparently need our great credit scores too !!!!!!!!!

Jay

January 3, 2011

What should I do about this loan? Mortgage vs student loans?

indiechick asked:


My math skills aren’t amazing and I’m not sure how I would figure this out anyway, so maybe someone can help me. This is a real life question. We have about 60 or so thousand dollars in private student loans and then maybe 10 in federal loans. If you’re not familiar with private student loans, skip to the bottom and I’ll explain them. The rate for the student loans is currently about 9%.

We are selling our house and if we sell the house for the amount that we paid (we’ll probably get a little more), we will net about 35,000 after commissions. We’re planning on buying a small fixer upper for 75-100,000 and getting a 10 year mortgage. Mortgage rates look like they’re about 4 or so percent. I was planning on getting the 10 yr mortgage, paying it off in about 4 years and then taking out a home equity loan and paying them off. My dad said that I should either put down less and pay down the student loans even though it doesn’t pay them off or take out equity as I go and pay them down.

My hesitation to do this is that my payment on the student loans won’t go down just because I owe less, but with a HEL, I will be paying more for the time being (mtg + HEL+ student loans at the same time). It’s still doable, but I’d rather not be paying more than I have to.

So my question is this:

if I pay down as I go, will my student loans skip ahead so that I’m paying a higher percentage of my payment to the principle than interest? Or is the percentage of principle vs. interest determined by time rather than how much you owe?

What do you think the best strategy for paying off these loans quickly and for the least amount of money?

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Private student loans: they were offered for a short time while lenders were lending money like crazy and they’re not federal loans, so they don’t have the low interest rates. The interest rates on private student loans are variable, currently at about 9%, but it’s been as high as 11.5%. No one is offering them anymore so you can’t refinance them, lock in a rate, file for bankruptcy, or in any way alter the loan terms. No matter what, the loans will be at that rate and you can’t get rid of them. If our credit scores go down or we don’t pay on time or whatever, the rates can go up to whatever they want. So as you can imagine we are dying to pay these off and get them out of our lives.

Juan

December 25, 2010

Foreclosure consequences on my rental property in Michigan?

DeuceCat asked:


I moved to Oregon 3 years ago. My home in Michigan never sold. The rent income has been below my mortgage the entire 3 years. I can no longer afford the mortgage and my renter is moving out in 1 month. I am considering letting the bank foreclose on the house since I can’t refinance and can’t afford to pay someone to manage the property for me. I have a 80/20 split loan thru Countrywide (now B of A)
I know that the lenders can come after you and there are tax consequences but…the house is valued at $63,000 and I owe $63,000 on it. Any idea how much I may be penalized or responsible for if they foreclose? This is SO stressfull. Any help is appreciated.

Ronald

December 22, 2010

For a mortgage professional: How does a gift letter work on a refi?

Kai asked:


I am in the process of refinancing my home and I am becoming a bit annoyed with the lender I am working with. It’s a typical rate/term refi. However, I am receiving a $20K gift from my father to to bring my loan down to 80% LTV to avoid MI. I used to work in the mortgage industry and based on my experience, all I should need is a signed gift letter and canceled check.

However, the lender is now (in the 9th inning) asking for 2 months of my FATHER’S bank statements and claiming it’s some new law as the reason why they’re needed.

Is this lender correct that I really need to provide my FATHER’S bank statements? If yes, please explain why and what the law is and what the rationale is. Thanks.
Thank you to all who answered so far. I could totally understand if this was a purchase transaction and they needed to verify my downpayment wasn’t coming from an ineligible party (broker, seller). However, this is a REFI. Is this standard practice to ask for my father’s bank statements? Or, is this lender incorrect?

Rita

December 16, 2010

Was I rude to my mortgage consultant? Long I am sorry?

Loren asked:


My husband and I are looking to refinance our mortgage. I figured even though we had trouble with our mortgage consultant in the beginning that maybe I should contact him since he knows all our information. When we first went through the qualification process he was very disconnected, we had a hard time getting questions answered and even getting paid attention too. Then when it came down to actually getting the house closed he dropped the ball twice and we almost lost the house. It has since been almost 2 years and I thought since at closing I told him that he made the experience very difficult that maybe he would take the hint.

Well I contacted him a little over two weeks ago to see what options we have. I get that he is the middle man, but I feel like I am having to baby sit and hold hands again. He tells me he will get back to me by Tuesday afternoon and I do not hear anything until Friday morning and I am the one who has to make contact. I would really like to stay with my original lender, but why is it so difficult?

So I called another mortgage consultant (same lender) and he refused to help me because my mortgage consultant is his counterpart and that I should call his boss. But aren’t we all adults? I would not be calling the other consultant if mine was doing his job in the first place.

I guess I am just frustrated! I feel like for the second time my mortgage consultant is AGAIN placing us on the back burner. We were 20 when we purchased our home, so at first I think he thought we were not serious (which still is not a reason to ignore us) But now we are ESTABLISHED customers, who pay their mortgage!!!

So today I wrote him this email after he told me we would definently hear something from underwriting on Monday and he would call me. Well I suppose you can guess I did not hear anything. This what I wrote;

I am just checking in to see if you had heard anything. You told me Monday morning that you would contact me by Monday afternoon. I know that you are the middle man. I also know that we are not your only clients but we are established customers with Wells Fargo now and history seems to be repeating itself. I would really like to be contacted when you say that you will contact me. Now at Thursday afternoon we still have not heard anything from you. I would appreciate an update. If underwriting is not getting the answers to you then I would like to know that as well. We would like to get the process moving along quicker then it seems be going. I do not want to have switch Mortgage Consultants or even lenders, but I am not getting any communication from you as of right now.

Do you think I was being rude?

Thanks!

Irene

December 12, 2010

Should they refund my appraisal fee?

krazy4scraps2 asked:


I was recently working with a mortgage broker to refinance my current mortgage. Everything was fine.. credit score, income, equity etc. The broker was very careful to check into everything prior to ordering an appraisal, a fee I was required to pay up front ($450). The appraiser came, did his job. I get a call from the broker today, and although we have not yet recieved the completed apraisal, she informs me that she has some bad news. Since my home is a manufactured home (on a permanent foundation and considered real property), she now tells me that the wholesale lenders she goes through do not loan on this type of home. She appologized, said she should have asked me this, knowing that there are many homes of this sort in my area. I asked about what happens with the appraisal fee.. It’s my feeling that the brokerage should pay this fee and refund the money to me since this was not my fault. I could understand if my loan was denied after going to underwriting for some reason, but this was an oversight on her part… What should I do?? Thank you!

Dora

December 1, 2010

How many years can a mortgage company come after you after a foreclosure?

uyen asked:


We purchased our home during the housing bubble in Florida. We’re not irresponsible lenders, we didn’t borrow more than we could afford. Three years into owning our home both my husband and I have lost our jobs. The only option for us is to relocate and start over. We tried a short sale and was uncessuful for the past 2 years. Now our bank want to foreclose the house. I don’t want to refinance the house or tried different lending option because the house is worth much less than what the bank priced it at. It is a dead asset.

A coworker of mine, was in the same situation. Our office was shut down and we both relocated to the same office. He was sucessfully short sale his house BUT the bank/collection agency is still trying to collect from him. He said they have up to 5 years to harass him.

I just really want this to go away and i really want to start my life again. My husband and I both make good income but we can’t afford to support inflated rent in a big city and pay our mortgage at the same time. What are the risks for foreclosure?
1. I am not here to search for legal advise, I am in search for opinions and/or ideas of how others would approach this. I am consulting a lawer to dispute this matter.

2. I am concern with 1099 but I will contact my accountant and get his advice on the letter of insolvency. Thanks, for the tip.

3. I wouldn’t file for bankruptcy. We have 0 credit card debt, no car payments, no nothing. Our home was the only thing we were working on.

My options are to put 15% to my 401k and max out my Roth IRA accounts. I could have a baby, or two. But it would be hard for me to purchase another car with bad credits and at the same time we’re stuck because we can’t save.

I am a victim of the economy…

Amy

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