Articles By Dale Rogers

Bad auto loans are very common nearly a quarter of Americans are credit-challenged. If you have bad credit or even no credit, you should have little problem of getting into a car. There are thousands of bad credit auto loans issued everyday in the U.S. There are specific banks or lenders that provide loans for those whom are credit-challenged, these banks are called subprime lenders. There are several factors, and criteria that may be needed to get a bad credit auto loan such as money down/collateral, proof of income, and of course credit history.

The National Association of Stock Dealers (NASD) police and license stock brokers through the Series 6 and/or 7 licensing requirements as well as other controls on a nationwide basis. If an elderly person with fixed assets has a disportionate share of their assets in pork belly futures, index options or maybe a wild derivative product, this would be a case of crossing the line on suitability. Investment needs require matching with risk.

Willie Sutton was one of the more prominent bank robbers in American history. During his long career he had robbed close to 100 banks from the late 1920s to 1952. He was known as “Slick Willie” or “The Actor”. As a master of disguise the FBI files show that Sutton disguised himself as a mailman, policeman, telegraph messenger, maintenance man and a host of other disguises. Willie Sutton was on the newly created list of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives in 1950.

Jimmy Stewart’s character portrayed in “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington” would have been right at home last week in Washington D.C. surrounded by the “Porkmeisters” of the current day. Déjà vu here we go again. Conveniently, the closure rule has been simplified removing the spectacle of a ‘elected citizen’ fighting with the Filibuster Rule. The difference here is that this spectacle occurred in the “House Of Representatives”. The strongest example of an oxymoron if they’re ever was one.

“No Credit, Bad Credit, No Problem” ever hear these advertisements on the radio, or television, getting an auto loan isn’t as easy as the dealerships make it seem. Most dealerships require large down payments, documents (such as paycheck stubs), and/or some form of collateral. This article will help get more opportunities for an approval on an auto loan, for those who have bad credit or no credit.

As the financial markets are being rocked by daily negative news including the latest lenders closing their doors and higher levels of reported foreclosures hitting new highs have stoked even more the slide of the troubled mortgage business. The mortgage products including Option ARMs, 2/28 Subprime ARMs (2 years fixed then adjusts every six months), NO DOCs, Self Employed Stated Income, W-2 Stated Income, Bank Statement Loans, No Ratio, and other esoteric subprime loan products have all aided.

FHA has been losing market share to Subprime loans for quite some time now. With all the requirements for a company to qualify and meet the regulatory commitments to the do business many lenders threw up their hands and took their business to other loan products. Many subprime loan products were tweaked to look like a FHA product thus competition heated up. It heated up to the extent that FHA went from like 1.3 million loans to just a little over 400,000 loans in 2006

Death trumps all. Game over for one player in the “Theatrical Drama of The Buzz Game”. Anna Nicole is not at the table anymore leaving the other players in the game with others lining up to take her place. In the mean time people are watching as Anna Nicole, who has now assumed room temperature, is having her bones picked over by the circling predators. “The Diaper Astronaut” never wanted to be in the game, but by her own bizarre actions in a love triangle was pulled in. Not a willing player, but none the less became part of the “24/7 News Cycle” through her own actions. As the news trucks roll from story to story some elbowing can be seen among the more aggressive players to get yet another hit from an adrenaline rush from being the lead story.

Dale Rogers is a thirty-year mortgage veteran and frequent contributor to the Broken Credit Blog. The BCB is a free website created to assist the general public with information about credit repair and responsible mortgage lending. www.BrokenCredit.com www.sellerhelpsbuyer.com

Unlike previous down mortgage cycles, lenders are pulling out all the stops to blunt foreclosures. From the use of computer models focusing on customers that “might” fall down together with a lender commitment to slow down any borrower from falling into a non-performing loan. So if a borrower is say two days late from a normal payment pattern, customer service is on the phone to find out what is going on. Options may range from refinancing the loan with different payment terms or even consider a short sale (settling for less than what is owed) if the borrowers are selling. With many homeowners’ just packing up and leaving after not being able to sell many lenders are trying to perform an intervention before the borrowers panic and disappear. With a slow resale market lenders are not setting back and waiting for payments to get down three or four payments.

In some areas of the country it is getting more and more difficult to find values that make sense for investment. Further complicating returns are accelerating taxes and insurance. Laying this all over an investment scenario margins are thin or non-existent. Long term appreciation in these tapped out areas is the only way to recognize any type of return but the property may need to be fed cash every year and that is not a pretty picture. The rents lag the necessary number to make the property feasible. With some cooling markets, the rapid appreciation of values may not be there to make those properties worthy of consideration. Like many other competing investments other areas are combed for values. Warren Buffet looks high and low for investments in the U.S. as well as offshore to give shareholders the often anticipated return on their investment. For the moment let’s assume an investor is somewhat less in net worth than Mr. Buffet. If there is money available, perhaps other areas could be examined for potential targets of your investment dollars.

Today builders and homeowners are again operating in a soft market. The “paper business” is a great way to make deals work. With the advent of corporate note buyers in the market place the deep discounted opportunities can be limited, however, there are still opportunities. If you end up with paper on a deal, hopefully at a discount, many creative practitioners using them at face value to put together purchase and trade deals. There is more than one way to put real estate sales together. If a buyer has a car, truck, semi-truck, semi-trailer, boat, mobile home, motor cycle, vacant lot, gem stones (the appraisals are varied), diamonds, collectibles, personal property loan, business note, judgment award, lawsuit pending on a traffic accident, life insurance annuities, inheritance, business inventory, chattel mortgages on equipment or any number of combinations can be used to make deals work. Yes it is sometimes sticky, but if you can stay within your comfort zone and two parties agree after utilizing professional appraisers and such, give it a go. The alternative is to do nothing and let the market roll over you like a run away freight train, or you can make something happen. Déjà vu.

The public, when it comes to investment opportunities, is usually late and guilty of betting on the wrong pony. It’s just the way it is always been throughout the history of our republic. Depending on the geographic location, there are many bountiful opportunities to locate, buy at a deep discount, fix, keep or sell and make money. A short time ago as the real estate market was topping out and multiple buyers were backed up to buy one property suddenly that same property has little attraction. Sellers were left scratching their head and wondering “What happened?” During this period little or no buyer’s closing cost were paid by the buyer, no seller held second mortgages would be considered and the idea of the seller fixing any deficiencies in the property was discarded out of hand. Such are the perils in a “Seller’s Market”. The purchase contracts were written “AS-IS, WHERE-AS” because that was what the sellers were demanding and could get it. Investors would dream of getting a great deal but had little opportunity to buy. Now with the ether wearing off, it is very possible to find those deals with lots of seller help. The fog is lifting and the vision for opportunities is clearing up. With all the positive news going on, the foreclosure market is ticking up. Many of the loans utilizing creative financing with built in rate increases such as in an Option ARM or a 2/28 ARM where now the rates are spiraling up have precipitated defaults. The financing was never structured for the long term. The flippers who bought high and tried to push the envelope are left holding the bag. Opportunity begs.

It starts out all so innocently, the loan application (1003) is filled out while gathering the income and debts verified through credit reports and mortgage payoffs. Then the Debt To Income Ratio (DTI) is calculated dividing the debts including the new housing expense by the income and wham, it happens. The DTI is over 60%. Conventional loan guidelines historically have been around 28% for housing expenses including taxes, insurance, private mortgage insurance and homeowner maintenance fees. The total debt ratios had been around 36% for all monthly debts including the housing expense. With computer modeling and automatic approvals some DTI are allowed to float up in some cases to 50% to 60% if the borrower has lots of assets and the loan is on a full doc basis. As time passed, more and more hybrids began to show up. Mortgage Brokers were inundated with this new loan product called Stated Income. Simply the borrower would state their income on page two of the 1003 loan application and ratios would fall within lender acceptable limits. The original thinking by lenders were grounded in the premise that many busy well to do borrowers didn’t have time to compile tax returns and a litany of proof for their assets. Borrowers who were just trying to get a loan to pay off debts and a few months down the road after the new mortgage was in place were not able to make their payments. Foreclosure action followed in many cases. This was a loan with a wink. Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire…

Charlene had been attending a Home Buying Clinic sponsored by her church for the past year. Fortunately, childcare was available at the church during the three hour sessions. Tanya was able to do a little studying as well in a far corner of the large room. Budgeting, credit repair, together with the home buying advice was all being discussed. Charlene had been doing well on her plan, but her middle credit score still hovered around 570. At the last meeting Mr. Wilson discussed many of the opportunities to buy a home with creative financing. Charlene pressed Mr. Wilson for more details. Charlene asked Mr. Wilson, who happened to be a Real Estate Broker and a Mortgage Broker, if that might work for her. After class, Mr. Wilson took Charlene’s information and shared with her that she may have a shot at doing something right away. Charlene went on to explain, she wanted to get something closer to work and to Tanya’s school. Mr. Wilson said he would call tomorrow with some possibilities.

Allen’s left index finger was on it, but he couldn’t believe what he was reading in the ad. He flipped the front page over to make sure it was the correct date. It would have been a cruel joke. There it was an ad that said: “Got a job and can afford a reasonable payment-call now and start packing.” The agent gave his name, company and phone number and it closed with the statement: “Your creative real estate specialist with good or bad credit”. Allen quickly circled the ad and showed it to Monica. They looked at each other with big grins. Monica handed the phone to Allen knowing what the end game entailed. Allen called the “specialist” hoping it was true but anxious to find out if it was another dead end. Monica looked from across the room not wanting to hear yet another disappointment. Then it happened.

In a soft real estate market where owners need to sell and have a high degree of motivation to dispose of their property. This is the opportunity that a buyer with challenged credit history can seek to “help” a seller out of their current dilemma by arranging sale terms that will help both buyer and seller.

Option ARMs are getting a lot of adverse publicity and regulatory attention. It’s kind of like a smoker suing for cigarettes causing cancer and getting Alzheimer’s in the process regarding the dangers of smoking. Likewise, anyone signing on for an Option ARM suddenly suffers the memory loss associated with plowing through a mountain of disclosures and examples indicating the dangers of the negative amortization and everything that goes with it. The high foreclosure rates in the ARM segment of the mortgage business will eventually sort itself out. There will be properties sold below acquisition prices, short sales by lenders, and a few precipitated bankruptcies when area prices fall and become soft.

Everywhere you turn and observe in newspapers, magazines, cable, network programming, radio, Internet BLOGs, investment newsletters, real estate is bleeding badly. Bad news abounds. With a forest of real estate signs sprouting out of the ground with moss growing on the north side, things appear to have slowed in the just recent hot market. There is seller desperation in the market place. Just a few months ago, sellers would get four or five offers on a property with the winning bid at $25,000 or more above the list price. In that euphoric period, the list price was the “start” price. In that referenced selling climate, the seller would refuse any seller help to the buyer with the closing costs and prepaids. As far as repairs on flagged items found on a routine home and termite inspection. Sorry Charlie, “As-Is, Where-As” was the rule of the day. When too many buyers are chasing too few properties, prices soar. As the song goes, “What A Difference A Day Makes” When too few buyers chase abundant properties for sale-prices fall.

Things were going great. Work was great. The economy was smoking and people reportedly making a killing in real estate. “Flipping” this property, buying this one, selling that one and just living the “American Dream” to the fullest. It was the best of times.

John and Patricia, wanting to take advantage of a lower interest move on their mortgage, their only debt. John always the planner chose to go on Annual Credit.com He found a past due hospital bill as part of the co-payment that had not been handled. It had been paid and John cleared it up right away. When application was made for their mortgage-John and Patricia got the best rate available. Mike and Sandy, needing immediate cash by refinancing to pay a load of installment debt just applied. Their score came back a lot lower than anticipated by 100 points. So much so, that the only loan they could get was a B/C subprime loan with payments $300 higher at the higher rate. They needed the money and went ahead. John and Patricia carefully planned and checked their credit. Mike and Sandy didn’t. Mike or John-which are you? Mike and Sandy had planned on buying an income property and did so resulting in a $700/month net cash/mo. Again, Mike or John, which one are you?

When mortgages are sold to new mortgage companies, with new servicing companies new service occurs. Frank and Janet’s mortgage had just been recently sold to a new company that also had a new servicing company. They would always send out their payments on time between the first and fifteenth of the month, and it’d be received without a problem. But that changed just as soon as the new servicing company came into place. Around the 20th when the mortgage was due a sickening call was received on their answering machine, stating that their mortgage payment had not been received, and late charges would be imposed. This leads to credit repair, and investigation of the mortgage servicing company.

Many couples have been merrily breezing along then, IT happened. There was not enough money to meet all the monthly obligations. Living in the suburbs, a two-paycheck family with 2 children with soccer, little league baseball, golf and club memberships, spas all sandwiched and woven into the tapestry of the McDonald family. Steve and Karen had considered themselves, being well educated and well read, above the fray of struggles of the other “Jones”. There was no reward unworthy of their attention. If any family is in need of non-profit assistance to assist with their credit challenges then help is just a call away in any community. Credit challenges are not fatal, they do not have to be permanent they are just darn inconvenient.

The door is opened and the Sheriff hands legal notice to you and your family that a Notice of Default has been served indicating the mortgage company is demanding all payments in arrears, penalties and costs forthwith or foreclosure proceedings will be initiated. If that sinking feeling is being laid on you or someone you know, there are some options to try and work out the problem. It will not go away. If you start early and take a proactive approach, there are some remedies that may work for you. When you have nothing to lose and everything to gain, why not give it a shot.

Many working people in the U.S. have no established credit, but want to own their own home. This article will deal with a strategy to use Alternative Credit and other sources to build a credit file for hand underwriting from a willing lender. Somehow, rent, car insurance, groceries, phone, cell, water, sewer, medical, car repairs and gasoline gets paid every month. They are making money but it’s now showing up anywhere. This will show a way that this market segment can get a home loan, even an undocumented worker.

A teaser rate is a low introductory interest rate on an adjustable rate mortgage. This article will shed some light on the downside of teaser rates and present some options in this rising interest rate climate.

A teaser rate is a low introductory interest rate on an adjustable rate mortgage. This article will shed some light on the downside of teaser rates and present some options in this rising interest rate climate.