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[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by pgardn

If they already paid for your house (or sold the mortage to someone else), and you are paying them... should be no problems. I mean if the people who you bought your house from got their money... I would think you are in the clear?

I think its the people trying to buy, or a sale is pending that are getting popped cuz Countrywide is low on cash to finance. So the housing market just backs up cause no buying can occur. I think this is the problem... along with the after effects of this.

This is correct, but I think she was referring to the people who thought they were getting a deal with their variable rate mortgages who can now no longer afford their monthly payment. American Home Mortgage went down the tubes last week too.

Originally Posted by Sightseek

This is correct, but I think she was referring to the people who thought they were getting a deal with their variable rate mortgages who can now no longer afford their monthly payment. American Home Mortgage went down the tubes last week too.

Aha.
Thanks.

I never liked the variable rate thing. I like to know exactly how much I have to pay. Heck I hate borrowing money period. When I first bought my house in 1987 the fixed interest rate was 10.5%. I refinanced fixed at 7.5%, then I got lucky with mutual funds and just bought the dang house.

Im not a good American. I hate borrowing.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Aha.
Thanks.

I never liked the variable rate thing. I like to know exactly how much I have to pay. Heck I hate borrowing money period. When I first bought my house in 1987 the fixed interest rate was 10.5%. I refinanced fixed at 7.5%, then I got lucky with mutual funds and just bought the dang house.

Im not a good American. I hate borrowing.

The rates dropped so low a few years ago that a lot of people took the risk. I think for some, they don't think long term and the economy looked pretty healthy not so long ago. They see, they want. Even with the initial savings most would have been better off at prime or higher, but I'm not so sure how this affected the guy selling you the loan.

[Danzig]

hmm...countrywide won't be doing loans over 400-some thousand dollars. are those the ones who default the most? the high dollar mcmansion buyers?? some people no doubt are 'house poor'--get ambitious, buy a huge house--and then can't even afford to furnish it.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by Danzig

hmm...countrywide won't be doing loans over 400-some thousand dollars. are those the ones who default the most? the high dollar mcmansion buyers?? some people no doubt are 'house poor'--get ambitious, buy a huge house--and then can't even afford to furnish it.

This is completely a guess, but with the economy I have to think these are the harder homes to sell. Rental units will always do well, but I think a lot of buyers feel uneasy buying a home that high when they listen to the news...plus many of them have to sell before they can buy.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

This is completely a guess, but with the economy I have to think these are the harder homes to sell. Rental units will always do well, but I think a lot of buyers feel uneasy buying a home that high when they listen to the news...plus many of them have to sell before they can buy.

well, than there's the fact that many are going to a required down payment again--so it may just be outside the realm of possibility for many to cough up that kind of cash up front.

[trifecta124]

Originally Posted by Danzig

hmm...countrywide won't be doing loans over 400-some thousand dollars. are those the ones who default the most? the high dollar mcmansion buyers?? some people no doubt are 'house poor'--get ambitious, buy a huge house--and then can't even afford to furnish it.

This is something that I think most people knew would happen. I have been renting because I live in a market where it is very difficult for first time buyers to get involved. I won't buy until I know that I can comfortably afford it.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by trifecta124

This is something that I think most people knew would happen. I have been renting because I live in a market where it is very difficult for first time buyers to get involved. I won't buy until I know that I can comfortably afford it.

we bought less than we could afford. i enjoy going out for dinner, buying a book, or into a horse, having ready cash to go have fun, more than making payments on things that you then can't afford to have fun with. and it's lucky for us that we do that--my husband has been off work since june 1 with a broken heel, and is on short term disability that pays half his usual check. but we're still kicking along, no sweat!

[pmacdaddy]

Originally Posted by trifecta124

This is something that I think most people knew would happen. I have been renting because I live in a market where it is very difficult for first time buyers to get involved. I won't buy until I know that I can comfortably afford it.

Please John... Tell the truth...you rent because you are a degenerate gambler.

[trifecta124]

Originally Posted by pmacdaddy

Please John... Tell the truth...you rent because you are a degenerate gambler.

Yes.....That may have something to do with it.

[otisotisotis]

Originally Posted by Danzig

hmm...countrywide won't be doing loans over 400-some thousand dollars. are those the ones who default the most? the high dollar mcmansion buyers?? some people no doubt are 'house poor'--get ambitious, buy a huge house--and then can't even afford to furnish it.

i believe that is all the amount govt. agencies will insure.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by otisotisotis

i believe that is all the amount govt. agencies will insure.

the govt insures loans?

[otisotisotis]

i could be wrong, but i thought agencies like fannie mae backed up loans that were no more than $400k or thereabouts.