[quote]ironcross wrote:
[quote]ReignIB wrote:
[quote]ironcross wrote:
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
If a fish swims in to a sharks open mouth willingly, was the shark actually hunting?[/quote]
It is if you change the shark to a snapping turtle and Take into account his worm-shaped tongue.
Unless you have a degree in business, it’s not the easiest thing to see through a good loan officer or real estate agent’s pitch. You want a home, they show you numbers that mean you can get one. They show you how you can afford it, they get good deals for you, they make the numbers work. Unless you happen to have an inside knowledge of what exactly they did to get you that good deal you’re pretty helpless. You have no idea that the house you refinanced for 245,000 is actually only worth 200,000.[/quote]
aggressive assessments are almost non-existent in today’s market, fanny/fredie’s policies are pretty tight to the extent where they are losing business in rural areas where it’s often hard for assessors to find comparables. local banks won’t underwrite their own loans unless the applicant is solid.
also, you make it sound like mortgage officers are going door to door offering loans to unsuspecting victims who are incapable of thinking for themselves figuring out whether they can afford something or not.
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The control has definitely tightened up since I worked in the industry (2004). Since then a lot of mortgage companies have gone out of business as a result of how much more difficult it is to get a loan through in terms of requirements of credit, verification, and income. They’ve made it virtually impossible for the mortgage brokers to do what they did when I worked in the field. As a result, you’ll notice many firms have gone out of business.
lol. You aren’t far off with your door-to-door guessing. Cold calling, door to door… anything was considered valid advertising. We generally worked off of lists of people whose mortgages were a certain age. The majority of the people who refinanced through us had never heard of us before we contacted them. So yes, we were just going around randomly offering loans to completely unsuspecting strangers.
As for thinking for themselves, well, I suppose that depended on their ability to do loan amortization schedules and ability to see through any shady “hookups”, which they would have had no way of knowing were happening between brokers, assessors, etc
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“stranger” doesn’t necessarily mean “victim”, I get telemarketers calls every day, doesn’t mean I’m going to buy anything if I don’t want or can’t afford it.