rssGovernment Gears Up to Sell Your House Short
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 4:07 pm
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With Obama’s much-vaunted mortgage modification program all but deemed a failure — one million applications have resulted in 31,000 modifications in the $75 billion program — the administration is set to embark on a new phase in its project to resolve the ongoing mortgage crisis. That phase involves providing banks with financial incentives to allow you to sell your house for less than the value of your mortgage and move one.
One real estate broker is already calling 2010 “the year of the short sale,” an industry term for selling something for far less than you paid for it. Banks save 20 percent over foreclosing on a house, between legal costs and the likelihood that a foreclosed-upon-house will sell for less than the mortgaged value, while homeowners agree to forfeit their homes rather than go through foreclosure and end up broke and out of a house anyway.
The Obama administration plans to offer $3,500 incentives to sell short in order to speed up the process of putting distressed homes on the market, and a Citigroup pilot program will give homeowners a whole grand to get out of their houses so Citigroup can sell them. Banks are pushing the short-sale incentives because of the “largely ineffective loan modification plans,” made ineffective by banks’ unwillingness to do more than temporary modifications or to approve applications. Apparently, rather than enforce the rules of the $75 billion program currently in effect, the administration has decided it’s easier just to let the banks sell the houses and get on with this economic recovery they say is already here.
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Comment posted February 18, 2010 @ 9:35 am
Have they gone Crazy? Unemployment is ticking up, foreclosures are up for homeowners and commercial property owners, gas prices are up, bank fees are up, and in general everybody is trying to gouge everybody else. The recession is not over–we are in a 75% depression. I do not know what world the d***** politicians, the d***** Wall St. Banksters and associates, and the d***** Federal Reserve and the US Treasury live in, but they sure as Hades are out of touch with the citizens of the USA. We demand some d***** HELP !
Comment posted February 18, 2010 @ 2:35 pm
Have they gone Crazy? Unemployment is ticking up, foreclosures are up for homeowners and commercial property owners, gas prices are up, bank fees are up, and in general everybody is trying to gouge everybody else. The recession is not over–we are in a 75% depression. I do not know what world the d***** politicians, the d***** Wall St. Banksters and associates, and the d***** Federal Reserve and the US Treasury live in, but they sure as Hades are out of touch with the citizens of the USA. We demand some d***** HELP !
Comment posted August 12, 2010 @ 3:36 am
Have they gone Crazy? Unemployment is ticking up, foreclosures are up for homeowners and commercial property owners, gas prices are up, bank fees are up, and in general everybody is trying to gouge everybody else. The recession is not over–we are in a 75% depression. I do not know what world the d***** politicians, the d***** Wall St. Banksters and associates, and the d***** Federal Reserve and the US Treasury live in, but they sure as Hades are out of touch with the citizens of the USA. We demand some d
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