Oct
22
Option Arms are in the news again
Filed Under foreclosure, mortgage, personal finance, rates
File this under: Unsuspecting borrower duped into getting a difficult loan to comprehend.
From Sunday’s Denver Post: Crushing ARMs squeeze homeowners
In 2003, 1.1 percent of mortgages originated for a purchase or refinance in Colorado were option-ARMs and another 2.5 percent were interest- only loans that didn’t pay down principal, according to First American LoanPerformance, a San Francisco mortgage research firm.
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Many borrowers don’t understand negative amortization, how their payments are rising, and why the loans they expected to rescue them are dragging them into foreclosure, he said.
The mortgage brokers who sold these loans were (most of them are out of the industry) dumber than dirt yet were great at selling these products. If you went with a mortgage broker because they sold you on a loan products, who’s really to blame?
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