Roberto Bell's Articles in Mortgages


  • A Few Mortgage Tips To Help You Prevent Foreclosure
    If you fall behind on your mortgage payments, there are several steps that you can take to help prevent foreclosure.

  • Adjustable Rate Mortgage Payment Recast - What Is It?
    Interest-only and negative amortization payments cannot go on forever. At some point, the loan balance must be paid in full. For all adjustable rate mortgages, there is a mandatory recast after a fixed period of time where the loan reverts to a conventionally amortizing loan to be paid over the remaining portion of a 30 yea ...

  • Conservative House Financing Is Making A Comeback!
    Exotic loan financing terms took over mortgage finance in the Great Housing Bubble. As people using these loan programs began to default in large numbers, exotic loan programs all but disappeared. This left the 30-year, fixed-rate, conventionally amortized loan as the only game in town.

  • Credit Crunch - Why Did We Have It?
    In 2007, the financial markets were abuzz with talk of a "credit crunch." It was portrayed as some unusual and unpredictable outside force like an asteroid impact or a cold winter storm. However, it was not unexpected, and it was not caused by any outside force. The credit crunch began because borrowers were unable to make ...

  • Did Lenders Cause Their Own Credit Crunch?
    It seems lenders forget basic facts about lending every so often and create a new financial bubble. Perhaps they succumb to the pressure of the investment community or their own shareholders, or perhaps they just start believing their own "innovation" marketing pitch and forget the basics of sound lending practices.

  • Do You Understand The Three Types Of Loans - Conventional, Interest-only, And Negative Amortization?
    There are 3 main categories of loans: Conventional, Interest-Only, and Negative Amortization. The distinction between these loans is how the amount of principal is impacted by monthly payments. Conventional loans pay off the debt, interest only loans neither increases or decreases the debt, and negative amortization loans a ...

  • Downpayments Are Back! What Happened To 100% Financing?
    Downpayments are required again thanks to the credit crunch. Many people thought 100% financing would be made available forever. They were mistaken. One-hundred percent financing will never return because it exposes lenders to too much risk.

  • Financial Innovation Is A Fallacy
    When the lending industry developed exotic loan products, they touted them as "innovation," and they sold these toxins far and wide. Since these loans achieved the highest default rates ever recorded, it is apparent the "innovations" of the bubble rally were not entirely successful. The cutting edge is sharp. Innovators oft ...

  • Foreclosure Attorney Miami
    Foreclosure is the legal method through which the banks or debtors will sell the property of the property owner, in order to collect the debt

  • Home Improvements Loans Are A Bad Idea
    Most homeowners do not save money for major improvements and required maintenance, and these homeowners often take out home equity lines of credit as a method of mortgage equity withdrawal to fund home improvement projects. The logic here is that renovations improve the property so an increase in property value offsets the ...

  • Judicial And Non-judicial Foreclosure - What Is The Difference?
    When a borrower cannot repay a loan, the lender may or may not be able to sue the borrower to collect any shortfall. The key difference is whether or not the loan is classified as a recourse loan or a non-recourse loan. If the loan is recourse, meaning the lender can go after any shortfall, the lender still must go through ...

  • Mortgage Default Rates And Mortgage Default Losses
    There is risk of loss in any investment. Investors in residential mortgages do not necessarily lose money when a borrower defaults. In the event of a default, a property will be auctioned at foreclosure, and the investor is paid out of proceeds from the sale of the property. Only in the event that the sale of the property d ...

  • Mortgage Equity Withdrawal - Are Americans Addicted To It?
    Much of the money homeowners borrowed fueled consumer spending and reinforced poor financial management techniques. It was common during the bubble rally for people to run up enormous credit card bills then refinance every year and pay them off. It is foolish enough to finance consumer spending, but it is even more foolish ...

  • Mortgage Equity Withdrawal Is A Cultural Pathology
    Mortgage Equity Withdrawal or MEW is the process of obtaining cash through refinancing residential real estate using the accumulated equity as collateral for the loan. This is a cultural pathology because it is not sustainable. Many people became addicted to using their houses as an ATM machine, and when prices fell, these ...

  • Mortgage Grant Money Is Easy When You Know Where To Look
    Free money is definitely something that citizens needs right now. With the American housing market being torn apart by the worst financial plummet in this century

  • Mortgage Interest Rates - How Are They Determined?
    Mortgage interest rates are the single-most important factor determining the borrowing power of a potential house buyer. When rates are very low, a borrower can service a large amount of debt with a relatively small payment, and when interest rates are very high, a borrower can service a small amount of debt with a relative ...

  • Mortgage Interest Rates And House Prices
    Mortgage interest rates are determined in an open market and are subject to the forces of supply and demand. These rates are the sum of three main components: riskless rate of return, risk premium, and inflation expectation. The Great Housing Bubble was characterized by historic lows in the federal funds rate, risk premiums ...

  • People Will Not Want Mortgage Debt In The Future
    The next big psychological change to impact housing will be a change in homebuyer's relationship with debt. When prices were going up, and nobody thought they were going to have to pay the debt off themselves, people borrowed all they could. Once prices stopped going up, and people were faced with paying off these enormous ...

  • Predatory Lending In The Housing Bubble - Were You A Victim?
    The most egregious examples of predatory lending occurred when interest-only loan products where offered to subprime borrowers whose income only qualified them to make the initial minimum payment (assuming the borrower actually had this income). This loan program was commonly known as the two-twenty-eight (2/28). It has a l ...

  • Prime, Alt-a And Subprime - The Three Categories Of Borrowers
    Borrowers are broadly categorized by the characteristics of their payment history as reflected in their FICO score. FICO risk scores are developed and maintained by the Fair Isaac Corporation utilizing a proprietary predictive model based on an analysis of consumer profiles and credit histories. These models are updated fre ...

  • Stated-income Loans - How Common Were They?
    One unique phenomenon of the Great Housing Bubble was the utilization of stated-income loans, also known as "liar loans" because most people were not truthful when stating their income. When house prices were going up, greed motivated many people to buy homes to capture appreciation. Actually having the income to qualify fo ...

  • The Key To Housing Affordability Is Not Mortgage Finance
    The difficult problem with affordable housing is how to provide it without making it unaffordable. Finance is not the answer. We all want affordable housing. There are numerous government programs designed to provide low-cost rental and ownership properties to people in all walks of life. Lenders, builders, realtors and buy ...

  • What Is The Option Arm Payment Rate?
    A negative amortization loan is any loan where the monthly payment does not cover the monthly interest expense. Interest-only or conventionally amortizing loans do not have this feature, and the monthly payments are based on the interest rate charged and/or the duration of the amortization schedule. Since the negative amort ...


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