A loan where a third party agrees to assume at least part of
the debt if the borrower defaults.
The legal right to legal property an owner gives to the lender as collateral for repayment of
a debt if the borrower defaults.
This means the credit provider can sell your house to pay
the debt if the borrower defaults on their loan.
The trustee must be impartial in this arrangement because he must be prepared to sell the property to satisfy
the debt if the borrower defaults.
Not exact matches
Recent analyses of administrative data suggest that
borrowers who leave college without earning a degree are at even greater risk of
default than those who graduate, even
if they graduate with more
debt.
In some cases, lenders require a «personal guarantee» from small business owners — a written promise that the
borrower's personal assets can be seized
if the company
defaults on their
debts.
If the
borrower has low credit, the creditor charges a higher interest rate premium due to the risk of
default, especially on uncollateralized
debt.
A mortgage or auto loan is a secured loan, because
if the
borrower defaults or the
debt goes to collections, the bank can repossess the asset tied to the loan — a house or a car — and resell it.
Lenders don't want to give risky
borrowers good offers
if they believe the
borrower will end up
defaulting on their
debt at a later date.
Cosigner A cosigner on a loan is a coborrower and is obligated to repay the
debt if the primary
borrower defaults on the
debt.
If the
debt - to - income ratio is more than 2, the
borrower will have significant difficult repaying the
debt and may be at high risk of
default.
In case of
default, the lender goes after the buyer who assumed the loan and —
if that buyer can not pay off the
debt — the lender then goes after the original
borrower.
If the
borrower defaults in the payment of the
debt, the trustee may sell the property without legal proceedings.
Most people — including me — think of credit card
debt as «unsecured,» meaning no physical object is subject to forfeiture
if the
borrower defaults on the
debt.
Columnist Kathleen Pender wrote recently in the San Francisco Chronicle that approving FHA mortgage loans for
borrowers who have outstanding
debts in collection could increase taxpayer risk
if these loans
default and FHA doesn't have enough in its reserve fund for reimbursing lenders» losses.
If a large group of
borrowers can
default on securitized
debt, spurring federal action to relieve these group of
borrowers of their
debt obligations.
However, on the flip side,
if large groups of
borrowers weren't
defaulting on their student loans, then there wouldn't be the need for any sort of
debt collection method, good or bad.
If the
borrower defaults, you do not have any recourse but the lending websites do send the
debt to a collection agency to recoup as much as possible.
For this reason, it's important that any potential cosigner is aware that
if the
borrower stops making payments, the
default will go onto the cosigner's credit report and they can even be sued personally for the
debt.
Please don't put all the blame on the
borrowers — the banks are at fault as well and all they care about is that bottom line — and also
if you
default — the bank gets to discharge your
debt and can claim in on their taxes as a loss there by still making money off you.
Effective July 1, 2010,
borrowers who are in
default may consolidate into the Direct Loan program immediately (without any payments prior to consolidation)
if they agree to repay the
debt using income - contingent repayment or income - based repayment.
Borrowers can obtain money, even
if they have
defaulted on past loans or have outstanding
debt.
If a
borrower is in danger of
defaulting on their
debt, a restructured auto loan agreement can be helpful for getting their finances back on track.
Co-signer: A person who agrees to share credit responsibilities and repays the
debt if the original
borrower defaults.
Extended on credit, unsecured
debt presents a higher risk to a lender since - in the United States - there are no debtor's prisons and
if a
borrower defaults on a loan, there is little that a lender can do about it except seek costly legal action and report to the credit reporting agencies.
Even
if a student loan is in
default (and with a
debt collector),
borrowers with federal student loans can rehabilitate the loan.
By comparing the ratio between current
debt and income, it is possible to determine
if the
borrower can reasonably handle another obligation without significantly increasing the risk of
default.
In other words,
if a
borrower defaults on the mortgage, Fannie or Freddie will pay the investor (the ultimate owner of the mortgage
debt) instead of the
borrower.
Any clause that either waives a
borrower's right to be notified of a court hearing or relinquishes his right to be heard in court —
if a suit is brought alleging a
debt default
The difference is that while Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac stand behind the agency
debt they issue, non-agency paper doesn't give an REIT as many remedies
if the
borrower defaults.
Credit card
debt is unsecured, since the lender has nothing to seize
if the
borrower defaults.
A cosigner is taking a significant risk in agreeing to sign a student loan, as his or her credit score will be negatively impacted by a missed or late payment, and because he or she will become responsible for the
debt if the primary
borrower goes into
default.
For the
defaulting borrower, it can slow down the lender's effort to seek judgment and,
if successful, can amount to relief from portions of the
debt being claimed.
If they become delinquent or go into
default, it's up to you to fulfill the
debt and take over their payments, effectively making you, the cosigner, the primary
borrower on a loan that wasn't even yours to begin with.
That means that
if over-consuming
borrowers default on their credit - card
debt the negative impact is essentially limited to the
borrower and the lender, while a material increase in mortgage
defaults can send shock waves throughout the economy (see the current U.S. example, where it is mortgage
defaults, not credit - card write - offs, that have created Depression - like conditions).
If the
borrower defaults in the payment of the
debt, the trustee may sell the property without legal proceedings.