Should
you lie on your mortgage application?
Should
you lie on your mortgage application?
Finally, do not do business with anyone who encourages you to
lie on a mortgage application.
Lying on a mortgage application is fraud and may result in criminal penalties.
Should
you lie on your mortgage application?
Does this mean that prospective buyers are
lying on their mortgage applications by either embellishing their incomes or understating their liabilities?
Not exact matches
Philip Penton implies that the
mortgage debacle occurred because of people
lying on their loan
applications (7 July, p 31).
(Many homeowners defaulted
on their
mortgages over the past few years because they
lied about their financial circumstances and / or worked with unscrupulous lenders who overlooked deficiencies in their loan
applications in order to generate more business.)
While some people try to avoid this by
lying on their
application, you should be aware that this is considered
mortgage fraud and can result in your
application being denied.
You may not think a little white
lie, or omission is a big deal, but fraud is fraud, even
on a
mortgage application.
Are «white
lies» okay
on a
mortgage application?
Among those expected to be arrested are people who encourage borrowers to
lie about income
on home loan
applications, mislead homeowners about
mortgage rescue programs, and inflate home appraisals.
At the peak of the flipping boom in second - quarter 2005, when 95,000 people across the country flipped single - family homes or condos, many flippers were holding two, three or four
mortgages, experts say — partially driven by investors who
lied on their
applications, saying the homes would be their primary residences so they could get cheaper interest rates.