Jeffrey Naimon, an attorney at BuckleySandler, said banks are punished
enough if a loan defaults because the ability - to - repay rule allows borrowers to sue a lender for alleged underwriting mistakes.
Not exact matches
As
if dealing with the death of a loved one isn't hard
enough, having your
loans go straight to
default is salt on the wound.
If the borrower
defaults on their
loan and there isn't
enough equity in the home to cover what is owed on the mortgage, private MI is there to offset the loss.
The bubble was a combination of (a) teaser rates on option ARMs which were like financial time bombs, (b) liar
loans in which the rules of good mortgage underwriting (20 % down, 28/36 ratios) went out the window, (C) people at rating agencies who decided that
if one pools
enough junk
loans into one bond, it's magically AAA, and (D) Credit
default swaps which encouraged these bad
loans, and when they collapsed a number of people walked away with billions of dollars.
Normally it is easier to get a secured
loan than an unsecured
loan,
if you have a bad credit history or CCJ's (County Court Judgments) as the lender considers your home as
enough security in case you
default on your payments.
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.
It's bad
enough to
default on a peer
loan but you risk alienating your friends and family
if you
default on a
loan they funded.
If a private lender makes
enough high - interest - rate
loans, even with a higher number of
defaults, it should still be able to make money.
The other possible reason for not taking the matching funds are
if the required contributions would put you in a significant bind —
if you're barely scraping by, and you can't squeeze
enough savings out of your budget that you'd risk
default on a
loan (eg, car or house) or might take penalties for late fees on your utilities, it might be preferable to save up for a bit before starting the contributions — especially
if you've maxed your available credit so you can't just push stuff to credit cards as a last resort.
If you make repayment arrangements soon
enough after your
loan has gone into
default, you may be able to resolve the
default quickly.