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Can't refinance under water


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2007 May 3, 4:35am   24,267 views  283 comments

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underwater houses

During the boom, if borrowers asked about the adjustable rates on their mortgages, they were told "oh, you can just refinance and start over".

But no one told them you can't refinance if your house is under water, that is, if the loan amount is more than the value of the house. Banks won't go for that, even in the continuing lax lending environment.

So their rates will adjust upward, and they won't be able to pay the mortgage, or refinance, or sell for what they paid.

Interesting times ahead.

Patrick

#housing

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104   EBGuy   2007 May 4, 6:04am  

Carol Llyod's latest column discusses short sales. She does mentioned getting 1099'd for the amount of debt forgiveness. So an underwater FB in the Golden State with a non-recourse loan faces two choices:
1. Foreclosure (no 1099, but wrecked credit)
2. Short sale (debt forgiveness with 1099, saved credit score)
Which do you choose? Which do you chose if you were a typical FB? Which really tanks the market?

105   Peter P   2007 May 4, 6:05am  

But since the fractional schemes are looking more and more like prepaid airline flights, it will be a matter of time before fractional jet passengers are screened as well. After all, a highjacked Gulfstream makes a serious guided weapon, too.

How do you screen people flying out of Sedona, AZ?

The 4/29 conspiracy proved that a fuel truck is just as serious a guided weapon.

106   Peter P   2007 May 4, 6:08am  

I think carbon offsets is a great free-market solution to environmental problems.

107   Peter P   2007 May 4, 6:11am  

Looks like defacement is still a issue for wikipedia.

108   Peter P   2007 May 4, 6:18am  

Which really tanks the market?

Between cyanide and arsenic, which one is poisonous?

109   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 6:25am  

"How do you screen people flying out of Sedona, AZ?"

Good point, but most business flights will be out of bigger areas.

"The 4/29 conspiracy proved that a fuel truck is just as serious a guided weapon. "

True again. Plus, anyone can load a fertilizer bomb in the trunk of a car and take out any tunnel. But due to 9-11, airline aviation has a special interest to the authorities. Do you really think it is possible to highjack an airline today? I believe you would be fought by every passenger if you tried. Beside, why not sit at the approach/departure end of a runway and shoot up engine and cockpit with an AK? The flight paths of any airport has aircraft flying low over large areas in the vicinity.

I think the current passenger screening is a waste of time and resources, but I think it mayl be extended to fractional jets anyway - if fractional jets get popular enough.

110   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 6:29am  

"I think carbon offsets is a great free-market solution to environmental problems."

Didn't Milton Freidman come up with the idea of selling pollution rights some 25 years ago? He saw it as a free market way to lower pollution by alllowing large companiies to benefit from there clean air improvements.

But at that time, the libs were aghast at his suggestion

111   Peter P   2007 May 4, 6:32am  

I think the current passenger screening is a waste of time and resources, but I think it mayl be extended to fractional jets anyway - if fractional jets get popular enough.

Fractional ownership still has a highish entrance fee ($150K+).

Perhaps chartering will be more closely scrutinized. Anyone with a few thousand dollars can book a "private" flight nowadays.

112   Peter P   2007 May 4, 6:33am  

But at that time, the libs were aghast at his suggestion

Perhaps the "libs" got richer in the past 25 years. ;)

113   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 6:36am  

EBGuy,

Can someone do a short sale, then take out a HELOC to pay the 1099 taxes?

114   Peter P   2007 May 4, 6:39am  

Can someone do a short sale, then take out a HELOC to pay the 1099 taxes?

Huh? after the short sale, there is no house?

Well, but then people keep telling me I am pre-approved for a HELOC anyway. I rent.

115   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 6:43am  

Peter P,

You are better with words. I was trying to imply that "fractional" was getting closer to "chartering." As more interest and cheaper jets come about, the entry fee shrinks as these planes are spread over more "owners", to the point it resembles a charter club.

116   astrid   2007 May 4, 6:44am  

Current airport security measures do absolutely nothing to encourage safety. If anything, it just introduces a lot more sketchy airport employees who would get access to sensitive areas.

117   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 6:47am  

OOPS, I confused "short sale" with "renegotiated loan," which was the subject of an article I was reading. The renegotiated loan also had the 1099 issue.

118   Peter P   2007 May 4, 6:48am  

As more interest and cheaper jets come about, the entry fee shrinks as these planes are spread over more “owners”, to the point it resembles a charter club.

Fractional owners always own the same interest (e.g. 1/16) on a plane. So the entry fee will not shrink when there are more owners. With more people, there will be more planes.

(Similarly, the same time-share condos will not be spread over more owners.)

Chartering is different. They are more like private airlines.

119   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 6:49am  

"If anything, it just introduces a lot more sketchy airport employees who would get access to sensitive areas. "

Yes, like the ones who pre-planted the boxcutters for the 9-11 highjackers.

120   Peter P   2007 May 4, 6:51am  

Cheaper jets will lower the entry fee though, although they are not really much heavier than SUVs.

121   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 6:53am  

Peter P,

Your facts and logic are unassailable. I admit error.

122   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 6:54am  

Peter P,

Your facts and logic are unassailable. I admit error.

123   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 6:55am  

Peter P

Your facts and logic are unassailable. I admit error on the Fractional Ownership issue.

124   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 6:56am  

Why did it post 3 times? It was bad enough I had to be wrong.

125   Peter P   2007 May 4, 6:58am  

My facts and logic are not usually straight. This is why I am a better sophist. :)

126   cb   2007 May 4, 7:01am  

Actually, I think fractional jet ownership is gaining popularity because people do not want the hassle of airport security.

Years ago when I worked at HP, we took HP's propeller plane to Roseville, it was fantastic when you can drive right up to the gate, no screening and hop on the airplane. Some of my coworkers flew to COMDEX on the jet and we wish all air travel was like that.

127   Peter P   2007 May 4, 7:06am  

CB, IIRC HP has a few Gulfstream IV-SP, right?

128   astrid   2007 May 4, 7:07am  

Why can't someone build a transporter booth system already? Is safe, energy efficient, simultaneous transportation really so much to ask for?

129   Peter P   2007 May 4, 7:08am  

Why can’t someone build a transporter booth system already? Is safe, energy efficient, simultaneous transportation really so much to ask for?

It has unanswerable metaphysical questions.

130   Peter P   2007 May 4, 7:13am  

Anyone remember this story about someone deplaned mid-flight from an HP turboprop?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/15/MN137139.DTL

131   Peter P   2007 May 4, 7:14am  

RE: transporter

I will take a slow route, perhaps a cruise boat.

132   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 7:15am  

"Why can’t someone build a transporter booth system already? Is safe, energy efficient, simultaneous transportation really so much to ask for?

It has unanswerable metaphysical questions. "

Some real physical ones, too. Converting a human to energy, according to E=MC squared, would make quite a pop. Just for comparison, that "crowd pleaser" 60 megaton nuke (deliverable only by B-52, in its day) only converts 4 ounces of matter to energy.

133   Peter P   2007 May 4, 7:19am  

Just for comparison, that “crowd pleaser” 60 megaton nuke (deliverable only by B-52, in its day) only converts 4 ounces of matter to energy.

Someone had said that "640K ought to be enough for everyone."

Now I will not buy a computer with less than 2GB RAM.

Perhaps technology will solve that problem in the future. But metaphysics issues cannot possibly be resolved.

134   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 7:22am  

RE: Transporter

No Ceasarian needed, just beam baby out of mother

Eat all you want, beam food from stomach to hog trough

No sex needed, just beam sperm to......

135   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 7:23am  

"Someone had said that “640K ought to be enough for everyone.”

Are you saying I should upgrade?

136   Peter P   2007 May 4, 7:24am  

Eat all you want, beam food from stomach to hog trough

That is something I can look forward too. My wife would not let be do the Roman thing. She said it is bad for my teeth.

137   Peter P   2007 May 4, 7:25am  

Are you saying I should upgrade?

No. You should be able to run Windows 3.0 in real mode. Say hello to your "Program Manager." :)

138   astrid   2007 May 4, 7:27am  

(or maybe just jump ahead to the energy being phase)

139   Peter P   2007 May 4, 7:28am  

(or maybe just jump ahead to the energy being phase)

Or perhaps we are energy beings after all. The physically world may be an illusion.

140   HeadSet   2007 May 4, 7:32am  

"My wife would not let be do the Roman thing. She said it is bad for my teeth."

Ah, yes the Vomitorium. (At least I hope that's the "Roman Thing" that would be bad for your teeth)

I heard that Emperor Senilius often confused the Vomitorium with the Buffet.

141   astrid   2007 May 4, 7:39am  

Peter P,

Why not just chew and spit out? Some fat and starch will get through, but a lot less.

142   Peter P   2007 May 4, 7:44am  

Why not just chew and spit out? Some fat and starch will get through, but a lot less.

Swallowing the food is part of the enjoyment too.

143   Randy H   2007 May 4, 7:54am  

Or perhaps we are energy beings after all. The physically world may be an illusion.

Even if this were true, the fact that you experience the physical universe, well...physically, makes the idea moot. If you jump off a building you will fall to the ground and die, because of gravity, imagined, illusionary, or real, all the same.

This is the problem I have with the postmodernists. The difference between something *real* and something *illusionary-but-perceived-exactly-as-if-real* is inconsequential.

Question: "But we could all be just dust in the wind. Isn't that deep?"

Answer: "No. Who cares. Quit smoking so much pot while watching adult swim, thinking you've discovered something profound".

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