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Deficiency Judgments: Recourse Loans vs. Non-Recourse Loans
do mortgage companies usually seek a deficiency judgment on home foreclosures Depends upon whether it is a recourse loan or not. A recourse loan is one where the lender can come after you for any excess amount of money you...
Negative Amortization Loan Issues on Investment Property
Read your article on negative arm loans, and for the person who only owns a residence and most real estate investors it will not work. I own several properties, and the parcel to be refinanced is ocean front...so is...
The Economics of Housing Development
The genesis of this article is Something's Gotta Give, a report (.pdf format) from the Center For Housing Policy. Furthermore, there is an article in the Washington Times from UPI that connects the dots on the tactical level. The...
Buying Out A Partner - With Complications
First of all I love the information on the site. I've done some research into buying a home and have talked to several people who have bought homes and I can never believe the stories I've heard. My response...
Lump Sum Payments on a Mortgage and Alternative Investments For the Same Money
This visitor came from a search engine on this search: amortization of real estate loans early payoff based on a lump sum payment This is one of the smart things you can do. Not necessarily the smartest, mind you, but...
Steering: The Most Violated Law In Real Estate
I just picked a random ZIP code in my local MLS, and out of the first twenty listings I came to, ten had explicit violations of one or more of the sections of RESPA regarding steering right there in the...
The Basics of 1031 Exchanges
Section 1031 of the IRS Code has to to with tax treatment on the exchange of one parcel of real estate for another. It's similar to Section 1035 which covers most non real estate exchanges. Car for a car. Boat...
Deferred Payment Mortgages - Not As Bad As I Expected
If that title seems to be damning with faint praise, it's accurate. I'm not going to issue any kind of blanket endorsement for them, but they aren't as bad as I feared when I first heard about them. They are...
Links and Minifeatures 2009 04 27 Monday
Carnival of Personal Finance ********** The Cost of Media Bias Andrew Breitbart has more. ********** The Government Becomes a Loan Shark When I first heard rumblings in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere that the government would not allow...
Steering: The Most Violated Law In Real Estate
I just picked a random ZIP code in my local MLS, and out of the first twenty listings I came to, ten had explicit violations of one or more of the sections of RESPA regarding steering right there in the...
Links and Minifeatures 06 21 Thursday
The San Diego Special Edition ********** More on the client condo It's looking nice inside! ********** Volokh Conspiracy on sexual abuse of children in order to "prove" sexual abuse. Rudyard Kipling had the right idea about what to do in...
Deferred Payment Mortgages - Not As Bad As I Expected
If that title seems to be damning with faint praise, it's accurate. I'm not going to issue any kind of blanket endorsement for them, but they aren't as bad as I feared when I first heard about them. They are...
Buying Out A Partner - With Complications
First of all I love the information on the site. I've done some research into buying a home and have talked to several people who have bought homes and I can never believe the stories I've heard. My response...
Lump Sum Payments on a Mortgage and Alternative Investments
This one came from a search engine: amortization of real estate loans early payoff based on a lump sum payment This is one of the smart things you can do. Not necessarily the smartest, mind you, but smart. Unless you...
Links and Minifeatures 10 31 Happy Halloween
Carnival of The Capitalists Recommended: PaceSetter Mortgage Blog on the issues with "pre-approval." Ladies and gentlemen, I never trust pre-approvals unless I did them, and they are limited even so. Carnival of Personal Finance RINO Sightings Recommended: legal redux (the...
Recourse Loans and Non-Recourse Loans
do mortgage company's usually seek a deficiency judgment on home foreclosures Depends upon whether it is a recourse loan or not. A recourse loan is one where the lender can come after you for any excess amount of money...
Lump Sum Payments on a Mortgage and Alternative Investments
This one came from a search engine: amortization of real estate loans early payoff based on a lump sum payment This is one of the smart things you can do. Not necessarily the smartest, mind you, but smart. The question...
The Basics of 1031 Exchanges
Section 1031 of the IRS Code has to to with tax treatment on the exchange of one parcel of real estate for another. It's similar to Section 1035 which covers most non real estate exchanges. Car for a car. Boat...
Negative Amortization Loan Issues on Investment Property
Read your article on negative arm loans, and for the person who only owns a residence and most real estate investors it will not work. I own several properties, and the parcel to be refinanced is ocean front...so is...
The Economics of Housing Development
HT to Unrepentant Individual, who also has some good information on what it means. The genesis of all of this is Something's Gotta Give, a report (.pdf format) from the Center For Housing Policy. Furthermore, there is an article in...
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