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08-05-2008, 07:52 AM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
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No I do understand the problem, but it's just part of the current problem. there's no second, third waves, blah, blah, blah, it's just one big messy problem. Now the sooner media stops the fear-mongering, the better for the public perception. Because I do believe there's tons of money on the side from the first time buyers that could help with this housing mess. Those new buyers are holding out simply because of this type of media coverage. Again there's no second wave, it's just part of the current problem
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Originally Posted by ladelfina
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08-05-2008, 08:01 AM
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#22
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Portland
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Originally Posted by dlhanson
Apparently, you priced the house too high.
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Actually no one has complained about the price, the main problem seems to be the two bedrooms. People want at least three.
Someone is going to want it, the house is on three acres with a beautiful trout stream in the back. I just need to find a trout fisherman with no kids.
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08-05-2008, 08:03 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Originally Posted by ziggy29
The Fed really can't control long term interest rates. In fact, as the Fed was dropping rates for the last year, mortgage rates were rising.
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This is true, but I feel most of the raising of rates was the massive deleveraging that occurred due to the realization of the ACTUAL risk that these mortgage issuers were exposed to. The mortgage rates became much more in line with the actual risk. Are the rates and lending practices back in line with traditional (borrow from CD at 4-5%, from checking at about 1% and mortgage at 6%) banking practices, or is there too much negative equity to have the rates have the risk priced in? It is tough to tell, but the Fed was trying to dampen the downfall with the rate decreases. Perhaps, rates would have increased to 7% without the rate cuts. It is difficult to say how much effect the Fed had, and if it was a solid choice, but I feel most of the increase in rates was the risk being realized by the lenders, and that the Fed would have slightly more control over interest rates now. That is, raising rates I believe would raise rates, if slightly.
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Originally Posted by Tempesta
No I do understand the problem, but it's just part of the current problem. there's no second, third waves, blah, blah, blah, it's just one big messy problem. Now the sooner media stops the fear-mongering, the better for the public perception. Because I do believe there's tons of money on the side from the first time buyers that could help with this housing mess. Those new buyers are holding out simply because of this type of media coverage. Again there's no second wave, it's just part of the current problem
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Give me a couple years
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08-05-2008, 08:05 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Helen
Actually no one has complained about the price, the main problem seems to be the two bedrooms. People want at least three.
Someone is going to want it, the house is on three acres with a beautiful trout stream in the back. I just need to find a trout fisherman with no kids.
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Where's your house?
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08-05-2008, 08:13 AM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Helen
Actually no one has complained about the price, the main problem seems to be the two bedrooms. People want at least three.
Someone is going to want it, the house is on three acres with a beautiful trout stream in the back. I just need to find a trout fisherman with no kids.
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I know a fisherman with no kids looking for a house....but he only fish salmon
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08-05-2008, 08:31 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Portland
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Originally Posted by Marquette
Where's your house?
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It's about 30 miles West of Portland, OR. I think the gas prices are killing our chances of selling to someone looking to get out of the city. We did the commute for 17 years, it got old after awhile.
We are now renting a townhouse in the city and I love it. I ride my bike to work, it takes 30 minutes each way.
There is quite a price difference between city living and country living. I'm sure we won't be able to buy a place for what we will sell ours for. It may cost us an extra year or so in the j@b market, but we both think it's worth it.
PS - there is suppose to be a spring salmon run on the little stream.
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08-05-2008, 08:41 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Can you imagine how great the world would be if there was no media. There would be no housing or credit crisis, we would have won this war, there would be no 9.5 trillion in debt, everyone would be working (if they wanted), gas would be .50 a gallon, no aids, no hunger......
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08-05-2008, 02:24 PM
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#28
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Originally Posted by Pete
Can you imagine how great the world would be if there was no media. There would be no housing or credit crisis, we would have won this war, there would be no 9.5 trillion in debt, everyone would be working (if they wanted), gas would be .50 a gallon, no aids, no hunger......
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Damn straight Pete. My point exactly.
If we could just find a way to kill the messenger....
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08-05-2008, 05:00 PM
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#29
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete
Can you imagine how great the world would be if there was no media. There would be no housing or credit crisis, we would have won this war, there would be no 9.5 trillion in debt, everyone would be working (if they wanted), gas would be .50 a gallon, no aids, no hunger......
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In the absence of media, there would be no democracy as people would be ignorant and uninformed and have inadequate information for decision making and voting. Freedom of speech is what makes our country the best in the world.
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08-05-2008, 05:23 PM
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#30
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The housing disaster is a global situation/problem. If you can't sell your house it's not necessarily because of the price. Banks are hesitant to make loans, unless the borrower is taking a 20/80 and has excellent credit. Even then it can be difficult in some areas that are experiencing depreciation of their housing stock.
Banks are having difficult selling their loans to investors who have been burned, many of them in Europe, Japan, China. If the banks can't sell the loan they may not want it themselves. So they don't lend.
Ladelfina has some excellent links if you really want to understand what's happening to our economy. Here's another from Businessweek that some of those bloggers cited.
The Next Real Estate Crisis
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08-06-2008, 09:55 AM
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I would expect a vast majority of home owners with good credit will continue to make the payments. Most have other assets/fund which could be used to buy out the loan to refi. Especially if these loans are against the primary residence.
Lenders are also begining to see the "light" and recognize that freezing the rate is in thier best interest. Then there's the feds plan ($300 billion in refi $$).
Point being, people will "do the right thing". Nearly all the misery/sob stories I've read have a divorce/break-up/job-loss/illness associated with them; seems to me these people would have been facing foreclosure with a fixed rate too.
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08-06-2008, 10:00 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Helen
Actually no one has complained about the price, the main problem seems to be the two bedrooms. People want at least three.
Someone is going to want it, the house is on three acres with a beautiful trout stream in the back. I just need to find a trout fisherman with no kids.
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Or a couple of empty nesters looking to retire soon.
I do know one trout fisherman trying to disown his kid, but I dont think he's looking for a house.
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08-06-2008, 10:54 AM
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Many of the people who have the Alt-A loans are a bit better off and have a better paying job (read more responsible and less likely to just walk away). The "investors" who obtained these loans have for the most part left the Alt-A market.
All people need is OK credit (not excellent), a job paying enough to pay the bills, and the down payment. You don't see back end ratios of greater than about 35% too often anymore. I think the down payment part is keeping many people out of the market. There is still a secondary market for mortgages, even with Fannie, Freddie and Countrywide (Bank of America) they just don't want the high LTV of the late 90's early 2000's and will return the product to the original bank if any documentation is not up to snuff. It is still possible to obtain a mortgage with credit scores in the 500's, although you will pay more in interest, they are still out there.
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08-06-2008, 12:46 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Originally Posted by Oldbabe
The housing disaster is a global situation/problem. If you can't sell your house it's not necessarily because of the price. Banks are hesitant to make loans, unless the borrower is taking a 20/80 and has excellent credit. Even then it can be difficult in some areas that are experiencing depreciation of their housing stock.
Banks are having difficult selling their loans to investors who have been burned, many of them in Europe, Japan, China. If the banks can't sell the loan they may not want it themselves. So they don't lend.
Ladelfina has some excellent links if you really want to understand what's happening to our economy. Here's another from Businessweek that some of those bloggers cited.
The Next Real Estate Crisis
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It depends what you mean by "price" of house though. As has been mentioned many times before, the price to many people only boils down to the bottom line on what they pay each month. This may seem naive to us, but it is the fact of life to many people, and does effect ANYBODY who needs leveraging/financing to purchase a house (ladelfina, for example, is one who didn't require a mortgage). The "price" could always go down to where cash transactions are more frequent, but this would completely cripple the economy.
As you mention, it is a lot harder to get a loan nowadays, for people with good credit, bad credit and no credit. The way that investors and banks will eventually have to settle this so that they can become profitable again is higher rates. So, the inability to get financing cheap or at all DOES turn that $200,000 house price tag from a $959 to a $1064 a month price (30 year $160,000 mortgage comparing 6% to 7%). In other words, the deleveraging has or will come into the end price of the house.
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08-06-2008, 02:01 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Alt-A ARM and Option ARMs resetting wouldn't be a problem on their own, but the fact that the prices of housing being so low would cause a huge problem when they reset.
The people are told to refinance when the resetting happens, but with no equity in the house (due to price drops with low down payment), refinancing would not be possible for many, and I don't see why they would want to pay the huge jump in the monthly payment.
tmm
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08-06-2008, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by tmm99
Alt-A ARM and Option ARMs resetting wouldn't be a problem on their own, but the fact that the prices of housing being so low would cause a huge problem when they reset.
The people are told to refinance when the resetting happens, but with no equity in the house (due to price drops with low down payment), refinancing would not be possible for many, and I don't see why they would want to pay the huge jump in the monthly payment.
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This is exactly the problem. Bubble state housing is depreciating at a rapid pace. If you were $200K underwater on your mortgage would you be anxious to pay your new recast option/ARM mortgage payment? Many will not and will walk away. The banks will end up throwing these houses on the auction block and the slide will become even steeper.
Stage Two of the Mortgage Collapse: $500 Billion in Pay Option ARMs Meet the Piper in 2008 with 60 Percent Being in California. » Dr. Housing Bubble Blog
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08-06-2008, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Tempesta
No I do understand the problem, but it's just part of the current problem. there's no second, third waves, blah, blah, blah, it's just one big messy problem. Now the sooner media stops the fear-mongering, the better for the public perception. Because I do believe there's tons of money on the side from the first time buyers that could help with this housing mess. Those new buyers are holding out simply because of this type of media coverage. Again there's no second wave, it's just part of the current problem
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Where is this huge wave of first-time buyers? In the Gen-Ys, the new immigrants, or what? I hope you're right, but please provide some explanation.
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08-06-2008, 06:41 PM
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#38
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Originally Posted by CitricAcid
This is true, but I feel most of the raising of rates was the massive deleveraging that occurred due to the realization of the ACTUAL risk that these mortgage issuers were exposed to. The mortgage rates became much more in line with the actual risk. Are the rates and lending practices back in line with traditional (borrow from CD at 4-5%, from checking at about 1% and mortgage at 6%) banking practices, or is there too much negative equity to have the rates have the risk priced in? It is tough to tell, but the Fed was trying to dampen the downfall with the rate decreases. Perhaps, rates would have increased to 7% without the rate cuts. It is difficult to say how much effect the Fed had, and if it was a solid choice, but I feel most of the increase in rates was the risk being realized by the lenders, and that the Fed would have slightly more control over interest rates now. That is, raising rates I believe would raise rates, if slightly.
Give me a couple years
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reason the rates went up is because as the fed was dropping short term rates is devauled the dollar and this caused long term rates to rise due to inflation fears
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08-06-2008, 06:58 PM
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This is exactly the problem. Bubble state housing is depreciating at a rapid pace. If you were $200K underwater on your mortgage would you be anxious to pay your new recast option/ARM mortgage payment? Many will not and will walk away.
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Oldbabe,
Yep, yep, yep. Why not walk away especially if you can without any penalty?
Real Estate Blog - Do Homeowners Still Owe Money After a Foreclosure?
My co-worker's sister did just that... In her case, I don't know if she waited until her house was in foreclosure or was only in default, since she could actually buy another house (at the current rate which is much lower) and move in before her original house was taken. It is evidently legal to do this, although I do not consider this ethical.
tmm
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08-07-2008, 08:17 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Originally Posted by al_bundy
reason the rates went up is because as the fed was dropping short term rates is devauled the dollar and this caused long term rates to rise due to inflation fears
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Not completely sure that is the entire reason. The opposite should be true as well, raising the rates should lower the rates, at what point does the mortgage rate go below the fed funds rate? The long-term mortgage rates do move independent of the fed, but it is largely based on the availability of capital and credit, one of the main sources of how available it is being the fed's OMO. So, as credit crunched rates would have to go up to reflect true risk in loaning money. Also, inflation fears do trouble some lenders to the value of their loan out going down over time. This could be explained as being factored into the risk, however.
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