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Homeowners in Their 20’s More Likely to Bail on Underwater Mortgages

by Moe Bedard

“Why would I keep paying on a $250,000 loan?” he asked. “I would not ever buy a house again.” (We tried to follow up with this guy, but his number had been disconnected.)
Statistics don’t exist because no one declares their reasons for walking away, but a handful of papers have suggested that there’s something to [...]

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Underwater Homeowners Should Bail in Rental Life Rafts

by Moe Bedard

Homeowners who are significantly underwater with their mortgages should consider walking away from those, according to Brent T. White, an associate professor at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law.
In a paper titled titled “Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis,” White writes most [...]

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46% of South Florida Homeowners Are Underwater

by Moe Bedard

Nearly half of all owners of single-family homes in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metropolitan area were underwater at the end of the third quarter, meaning their homes were valued at less than the mortgages owed against them.
Forty-six percent of South Florida homeowners, representing 387,157 homes, were underwater at the end of Sept. 30, compared to 47 [...]

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Banks Giving Some Homeowners Cash for Keys to Bail

by Moe Bedard

Despite federal loan modification programs to help struggling homeowners, many lenders are refusing to play ball and are proceeding with foreclosures.
But some of those same lenders are quietly paying people to move out and find another place to live.
It’s known as “Cash For Keys” and banks don’t talk about it publicly but, in some cases, [...]

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Homeowners Walking Away Becoming More Common

by Moe Bedard

“I’m walking away from my house,” says Sakson, 57, who stopped making payments about six months ago on her home in Pennington, N.J. “The bank can have it.”
What Sakson did is called a strategic default, or a voluntary foreclosure, and it’s fast becoming a major challenge to the government’s $75 billion effort to keep distressed [...]

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Go Ahead, Walk Away

by Moe Bedard

There is nothing immoral about ditching your mortgage.
A solid two years into the housing bust, the national foreclosure wave doesn’t show the least signs of abating. Banks that had called a foreclosure moratorium are now back to the business of taking back properties, and the foreclosure numbers are again at record highs. As the foreclosures [...]

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The rich bail faster on mortgages

by Moe Bedard

Increasingly, homeowners with good credit and no late payments are making what appears to be a strategic decision to walk away when their home’s value falls below what’s owed.
“The American consumer has had a long-held taboo against walking away from the home, and this crisis seems to be eroding that,” concludes a report on research [...]

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I’m walking away in Arizona & Chase sucks!

by Moe Bedard

Submitted by a Homeowner on LoanSafe.org
Chase called again..
Received another call from Chase but he did not identify which department he was calling from. He explained that he wanted to see if we could make payment arrangements to get the account up to date.
I explained that Chase is responsible for the mess I am in because [...]

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What are you allowed to take when you are foreclosed on?

by Moe Bedard

More and more reports are coming out of foreclosed homeowners stripping their properties of anything of value before they bail on the bank.
In my forum over at LoanSafe.org, I am getting a lot of questions in regards to what I can take and what I can’t take. Often, these people used their own money to improve [...]

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Banks Starting to Walk Away on Foreclosures

by Moe Bedard

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Mercy James thought she had lost her rental property here to foreclosure. A date for a sheriff’s sale had been set, and notices about the foreclosure process were piling up in her mailbox.
Ms. James had the tenants move out, and soon her white house at the corner of Thomas and Maple [...]

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