Lenders may cut standards more to grab market share as the pace of auto sales slow and the
number of subprime borrowers stops expanding, the rating firm said.
Nevertheless, there are some lenders out there willing to work with you and some who even specialize in getting car loans into the
hands of subprime borrowers.
In the
case of subprime borrowers, it is now evident that many did not account for the possibility of having to pay higher interest rates in the future.
As the Wall Street Journal has reported, 61
percent of all subprime borrowers actually qualified for better financing in 2006 and many could have gotten lower - cost FHA mortgages.
The status quo is burdensome for the increasing number
of subprime borrowers with bad credit whose position in the present real estate market is not an enviable one: Due to a convergence of factors such as plummeting property values, zero down payments, and significant payment increases that they can not satisfy, homeowners find themselves with a mortgage debt exceeding the value of their home.
A voluntary mortgage aid plan announced by President George W. Bush last December called upon lenders to freeze the mortgage
rates of some subprime borrowers for five years.