Posted on 04/27/2012 11:31:07 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
More than 1 million Americans who have taken out mortgages in the past two years now owe more on their loans than their homes are worth, and Federal Housing Administration loans that require only a tiny down payment are partly to blame. That figure, provided to Reuters by tracking firm CoreLogic, represents about one out of 10 home loans made during that period. It is a sobering indication the U.S. housing market remains deeply troubled, with home values still falling in many parts of the country, and raises the question of whether low-down payment loans backed by the FHA are putting another generation of buyers at risk.
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—When the stock market drops it will be so damn fast no one will have a chance to get out.—
Reminds me of this:
http://www.grandpappy.info/honehour.htm
Here’s your money quote:
“We have all three branches of government trying to keep people in four bedroom houses who can’t afford chicken coops.”
And I just finished my 8x8 chicken coop last night. 14 hens.
The Federal government is just playing three card monte with us....It’s all crap!
Interesting views...The larger cities could indeed just fall apart.
“Even for loans taken out in December - less than four months ago and the last month for which data is available - nearly 44,000 borrowers, or about 7.5 percent of the total, now find themselves under water.”...
Next up: principal writedowns. Not many bullets left in the chamber after you've reduced the interest rate to 2%, reset the maturity to 40 years, and foreborne principal of $100K (or more).
So, really bad time to get a house. Crap, we’re in process right now...
No, it's a great time to buy a house as long as you have a fixed rate mortgage. As soon as hyper inflation kicks in, you'll be able to pay off your house for the price of a cup of coffee.
The “No better time to buy” and “housing is at the bottom” buyers. Then again it depends on how much they’re under water + taxes and financing vs. accumulated rent payments to determine if they’re really losing money.
I bought my 13 acre farm and new home in central KY two weeks before Obama was elected. It cost less than one years wages. It’s actually worth more now.
However, that is because people are slowly moving from the cities into rural areas (me, for example) and there was no price runup to speak of out here.
I lived in Seattle when we bought this place. There is NO WAY I would have purchased ANYTHING in that place. Or any other city. For starters, the only reason I bought this place was because you don’t rent a place like this. It is a tool for survival and where we expect to die.
I agree. Especially within ones means. With % rates so low, its better than renting because rental rates are skyrocketing.
snip-”The laundering of trillions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money — and the wrongful taking of the homes of those taxpayers — was known by the Administration and expressly supported by it.”
Everyone who ever held an auto loan has been under water from month one.
It is a GREAT time to buy a house. The people buying them today are investors. Most of the doom and gloomers bought at the top of the cycle and wish they could buy at the current price. The important thing is do not buy more than you can afford. Also, lock in your interest rate(3-4%) for as long as you can. All real estate is local. It is better to buy a cheap property in an expensive town than the opposite. Your house should never be worth more than the others in your neighborhood.
Where are you buiyng ?
no one buys a vehicle to use expecting it to appreciate.
I pulled out all the equity I could, refi'd at 3.75 fixed for 30 yrs, and plan to pay it back with Baraqqi/Bernanke minibucks.
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