Articles tagged: ARM Mortgages
<< previous page 1 next page>> written by Dale Rogers American families are waking up to the fact they are in deep doo doo upon the receipt of the first notice from the mortgage lender holding the Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM) that the mortgage payment is jumping up by a considerable margin. Family budgets are blowing up, savings are being exhausted, payments are being missed, credit card debts are exploding, credit scores are falling and their favorite dog spot does not have as many goodies to toys to play with. written by Dale Rogers Unlike previous down mortgage cycles, lenders are pulling out all the stops to blunt foreclosures. From the use of computer models focusing on customers that “might” fall down together with a lender commitment to slow down any borrower from falling into a non-performing loan. So if a borrower is say two days late from a normal payment pattern, customer service is on the phone to find out what is going on. Options may range from refinancing the loan with different payment terms or even consider a short sale (settling for less than what is owed) if the borrowers are selling. With many homeowners’ just packing up and leaving after not being able to sell many lenders are trying to perform an intervention before the borrowers panic and disappear. With a slow resale market lenders are not setting back and waiting for payments to get down three or four payments. << previous page 1 next page>> |