St Louis Finance Terms Will Get Harder For Home Buyers Who Walk Away
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There will be new legal guidelines that will give Fannie Mae legal recourse against home loan buyers who refused to make their mortgage payments when financially they were able to.
The situation has imploded to the point that there may be more than 2.4 million foreclosures that will occur. And this doesn't include the millions of homeowners who are upside down on their homes.
The term strategic default has come about as a direct result of these consumers refusing to pay their home loan mortgage and not wanting to seek alternative options due to their situation. The final surprise will be on these home buyers because Fannie Mae plans are not funding these people for at least seven years.
But that's not all. Mortgage lenders who feel they have been defrauded by these consumers will seek deficiency judgments in court. This will legally bind the borrower who has quit paying on their home loan to pay any balance that is still owed after their house is sold off.
But as expected, there will be limitations as in California. A lender will only get a court order for a deficiency judgment on a home used for refinancing but not as a purchase loan.
And as regards the ability for future borrowers who have purposely defaulted on their current mortgage to attain another government-sponsored home loan?
Well, let's just say for the moment that Fannie Mae made it clear in no uncertain terms that a new home loan such as a FHA loan would be extremely difficult for these "black-listed" ones to obtain.
Especially if it can be proved that they engaged in a "strategic default" or the abandonment of their home to foreclosure not because the payments were unaffordable but because the home buyer became upside down on their St Louis loan. In other words, the mortgage loan is larger than the value of the residence.
How long will this borrower be in financial limbo? Well, according to Fannie, they would not buy or guarantee another home loan for these fraudsters for seven years.
Further data from the research firm CoreLogic shows that consumers who are slightly underwater or owe a little more than their homes are worth will most likely continue to pay their mortgages if they have the resources.
However, if the home value falls more than 25 percent under the current home loan amount, more and more consumers would then simply walk away or commit a strategic default on their St Louis home mortgage loan. And these numbers seem to be nationwide.
March 2010 saw about 31 percent of foreclosures as strategic walkaways by the consumers themselves which was compared to only 22 percent in March 2009.
There are those who openly support this long overdue decision made by Fannie Mae and those who feel this isn't fair nor legal to force on those whose homes were affected by this bad economy.
And then there are the hardliners who feel the punishment as it were should last longer than seven years. Why? Because they feel the mortgage collapse was a direct result of these irresponsible home buyers.
Over the last two to three years, there appeared to be a conscious trend for individuals to stop feeling that this house was no longer their family dwelling from the outside world but now their investment or cash cow.
The outcry has become louder against these greedy home buyers with the general consensus that they should get whatever punishment the Fannie Mae and the courts feel is fair and equitable. Maybe these ones will treat their new houses in the future as a home and not an investment.
But the losses may continue to mount for these homeowners. Fannie Mae plans on taking additional legal action by seeking deficiency judgments from these ones who walked away from their home loan payments.
Many are now considering why the current Administration seems to be sweeping this issue under the political carpet as if this is not a serious problem when in reality it is of huge importance especially since Fannie Mae has taken such a strong stand against these homeowners.
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