The Obama Administration is set to announce a new initiative to tackle the growing foreclosure crisis - requiring lenders to slash or altogether eliminate monthly mortgage payments for unemployed borrowers for at least six months.
Looks like Peggy Joseph has the last laugh.
UPDATE: Bloomberg News is reporting that more than half of US borrowers who received loan modifications on delinquent mortgages defaulted again after nine months.
UPDATE II: Part of the new housing policy will include "strongly encouraging" lenders to write down the value of loans for borrowers in modification programs. Up until now, the HAMP program has focused on lowering interest rates. There's a moral (hazard) in this story somewhere...
Thursday, March 25, 2010
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I'll support this if we can create an internet database similar to the sex offender lists. That way we can see who the deadbeats in our towns are and can approach them at the Outback while they are tapping away on their new Iphones and let them know just what parasites they are.
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