Mortgage banker
Mortgage banker in Beverly Hills, California and author of Stop Foreclosure Now: Save Your House if You Can Save Your Credit if You Can't
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Lloyd Segal
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FROM Lloyd Segal
Which Way, L.A.?
Foreclosures are up but so is the need for housing From January to the end of March, mortgage foreclosures in California rose 800% as compared to the first three months of last year. Countrywide Financial , the nation’s largest mortgage lender, says delinquencies are up even among customers with good credit.
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Home Loans and Easy Money, until Times Get Hard No less an authority than Alan Greenspan, former Chair of the Federal Reserve , called sub-prime mortgages a tool for democratizing credit. Sub-prime mortgages with no down payments are advertised as the road to home ownership for families who can't afford regular loans. They often gamble that they'll be able to re-finance after the house goes up in value, but before new interest rates and higher payments kick in. Now, with the housing market is cooling off, the formula is failing to work for more and more people. Foreclosures are up and they're likely to increase even more. Did stock analysts paint an overly rosy picture of the sub-prime mortgage market to generate investment? Do risky loans to millions of vulnerable borrowers threaten the whole economy? We hear from economists, consumer advocates, a state official who's going after shady lending practices, and John and Delia, two homeowners caught in the sub-prime squeeze.
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