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The Truth About the Mortgage Market

By Kevin Patrick, CEO

First Coast Trust

Jacksonville, FL – Subprime mortgages have now been credited for bankrupting well over 135 lenders and seriously damaging operations at many major mortgage firms. They’ve reportedly wiped out 5 hedge funds, tens of thousands of jobs, and have led to millions of foreclosures with millions more on the way. And, as if that weren’t enough, subprime mortgages are also blamed for massive volatility in the stock, bond, credit, futures, and real estate markets here in the US and around the globe. Some say losses in the mortgage securities market alone could reach hundreds of billions of dollars this year.

This means that, for any Americans looking to buy, sell, or refinance a home, they are confronting a very different market from the one that existed just 6-12 months ago.

How did this happen?

The recent real estate boom was fueled by a period of record home appreciation and historically low interest rates. Banks, in order to compete, loosened guidelines and began offering more funding to more borrowers through riskier, non-conforming or “exotic” mortgages.

These ideal lending conditions persisted for several years, supported by high demand, historical real estate data, home prices, and massive trading volume/profits on mortgage-backed securities and other financial instruments on Wall Street.

Then, in 2006, a slowdown in real estate led to a deterioration of home values, an increase in inventories, and ultimately to today’s tightening of credit guidelines, leaving many investors unable to sell or refinance out of their existing positions. Many Americans who had tapped into their equity were suddenly tapped-out and overextended as home values fell. Foreclosures followed in record numbers and a re-valuation of mortgage bonds and other financial instruments created the credit/liquidity domino effect we’re now experiencing.

Unfortunately, it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better. According to the latest estimates, over 2 million subprime and Alt-A adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) holders will face payment increases of up to 30%-100% when their loans reset in the next 2 to 18 months. These loans make up less than 40% of the total mortgage market, but the negative effects, as we have seen, of increased foreclosure activity can have a ripple effect throughout the industry and around the globe.

What does this mean to you and your mortgage?

Sellers: If you’re planning on selling your home, be prepared for an even smaller pool of qualified buyers. While some experts predict a settling of this credit crisis over the coming year, tightened credit guidelines and diminishing mortgage products could knock out as many as 15%-30% of potential qualified buyers. Now is not the time to sit and wait for the best possible price. Have a serious talk with your real estate agent. Having experienced buying/selling transactions in your area, he or she can help you price your home accordingly. He or she can also help ensure that your buyers are pre-approved and stay pre-approved throughout the entire transaction.

Buyers: Get pre-approved by your mortgage professional. While there are a lot of great deals out there, getting credit is becoming tougher and tougher, and it’s taking longer and longer to complete a transaction. Remember, what you qualify for today could change tomorrow in a volatile market. For those looking to refinance, keep this in mind. There is no time to delay! Communicate with your lender. Don’t do anything that could negatively affect your credit, and make sure you get all your documentation in on time.

ARMs Borrowers: If your ARM is scheduled to reset in the next 2-18 months, you need to schedule an appointment with a mortgage professional right away. Whether your ARM is subprime, Alt-A, or even if you have a pre-payment penalty, don’t let a default or foreclosure situation sneak up on you. Did you know that your monthly payments can increase anywhere from 30% to 100% once your loan resets? At the very least, give yourself the peace of mind of knowing what your adjusted payment will be.

Borrowers with less-than-perfect credit: Each week it seems lenders are shedding more and more mortgage products. Many lenders have stopped offering No-Doc loans and are reducing all forms of Stated-Income loans. While it might be challenging, borrowers with credit issues need to see a loan expert. Often they have credit repair resources and other strategies to help you reach your financial goals.

Finally, there’s an important concept to embrace: all markets, while cyclical in nature, are self-correcting, be it credit, real estate, stocks, or bonds. For the last 6 or 7 years, real estate was booming and riding high. The correction we’re experiencing now – while it seems harsh and could get much worse – is, in a sense, “natural” and directly related to the extremely loose guidelines and perhaps overzealous lending and leveraging during the boom cycle.

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A beginner usually feels very attracted to the stock market while for example discovering a penny stock that’s being reported in CNBC or the news program and watching it rise steady fast and make new highs from $1 to $7 in just 2 months.

While learning about this successful news story he’s saying to himself “Oh boy if I was one of those lucky guys who bought that cheap stock back when it was priced at $10 I easily would have tripled my money by now… That means my 10 grand would transformed in to a whooping 70 K! hassle free … I would have been able to grab one of those big HUMMERs on the spot and probably pick up a nice Rolex by the way!”

The stock market news constantly reports of hot small cap stocks that are breaking out and making tremendous gains on the same day or doubling in price in just a few hours. Back in the bull market of the late 90’s you could easily see a good number of hot stocks sprouting out every week.

Those years surely made it look like every body could easily take LONG SHOTS and make a shiny pile of gold every day in the stock market. But today’s market is a different story. A totally different animal.

Some say that the stock market has gotten more realistic. Fantasy land is over and GAMBLING YOUR WAY TO RICHES is not an option anymore. You might get lucky a few times, but your constant loses can wipe you out sooner or later.

The fact that the bull market period has ended for now doesn’t mean that you can’t make a great deal of money in today’s market. A lot folks from many walks of life keep making excellent profits on a daily basis, pocketing hundreds & thousands of dollars by trading penny stocks online.

Success in penny stock trading starts by applying a wiser and REALISTIC methodology for choosing hot penny stocks as well as for getting in and out of them with profits in mind.

You need to look at the stock market more realistically. You got to learn that you can benefit when stocks go up and also when they FALL down.

You got to WORK SMARTER and get more selective about the hot stock trading opportunities that you choose. You need to embrace the nature of day trading and be fully prepared to take advantage of stocks that are poised for a BIG RISE on the same day.

The bottom line is you have to PREPARE YOUR SELF to be successful, just like you would do it in other areas of your life in order to achieve success.

Once you are trained, you can work as a mortgage advisor and demonstrate your power of making wise decisions wherever necessary, you can make use of suitable solutions for problems arising and, you can also identify and take an action against such problems by using your knowledge. Once you are trained, you can choose to be a loan officer, loan processor, loan originator, mortgage broker or choose between many such other lucrative and respectable careers. Mortgage training can be better done with a commerce stream rather than any other. It involves money transactions and handling them in a proper way. Thus, none but a commerce stream candidate can do those best.

Being a mortgage broker, you can enjoy your rights in the share market and being a loan officer you can make your career in a bank. Thus, once you are trained and qualified in mortgage training, you have many options open for you. You can become a mortgage officer or a loan officer or have any other profession, by taking mortgage training like online training, live training, manual training and many other options. If you are really busy but yet you want to get trained, you can opt for the online training or training through the manuals option. Thus, you don’t have to join classes and you may sit at home and study. But, if you believe in getting trained live, you can go for the live training sessions offered by a number of classes in your city and become a trained mortgage official In no time. This training is generally available in finance schools or special institutes for mortgage training. With the flexibility of providing you with these courses online, these institutes also have flexible course durations thus giving you one more chance of adjusting your timings and get your course completed in no time.

A mortgage training certificate course done from a renowned institute can give you the power to enjoy your position in other countries too. Thus, you can take a course wherever you want and start your profession at some other place. But, while you do so, you should take care that the institute’s degree is recognized at the place you want to work at. Mortgage training is a good option for those who are new in the financial industry or for those who wish whole heatedly to go into the mortgage industry. Doing a mortgage training course also brings some added value to your CV while you are out looking for a job. A career in the mortgage industry is good and in demand these days as very few people select it as a career thus making it a unique career to pursue.

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In today’s real estate market, the once lucrative opportunity of being a loan officer or mortgage broker originating loans and refinancing homeowners is no longer so lucrative. The sub prime mortgage meltdown and the mortgage credit crunch has really put a damper on that traditional business model.

What you should know is the short sale mortgage business is doing fantastic right now. There are more defaulted mortgages in the marketplace right now than we have ever seen before. The transition from a residential mortgage brokers business to a short sale mortgage business is very easy. The mortgage brokers and loan officers that use my short sale mortgage system are making ten times more now per file than they used to make by only originating loans. The opportunity to make big money in real estate short sales is now.

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A considerable amount of a mortgage broker’s salary is based on the commissions they receive for completing a loan transaction.  The market continues to increase in competitiveness, since mortgage brokers now has access to wholesale markets and because of the lower overhead involved with running a brokerage firm.  Access to wholesale markets means a mortgage broker can get loan approvals from some of the largest lending institutions in the country.  A mortgage broker can instantly adjust interest in order to compete with other firms for clients.  Also, they don’t have to follow the fixed profit margins of larger firms and this flexibility has allows mortgage brokers to take over a very large share of the mortgage market.  Lending rates are constantly changing and a mortgage broker will do well to compare the day’s rates before deciding on the best lender for their clients.

On the flip side mortgage brokers face somewhat stricter regulations regarding what they have to disclose.  One example of information that a mortgage broker has to disclose and a bank usually does not necessarily have to is the yield spread premium.  Brokers make money because they set the interest rates of mortgages above the wholesale prices.  The yield spread premium is the money paid to the broker based on how much higher the interest is set above the wholesale rates.  Another even stricter mortgage broker requirement is to provide the customer with a Good Faith Estimate, which outlines in detail all the costs associated with the mortgage.  Since all mortgage brokers must provide their clients with this information it is an excellent way to compare offers between different brokers.

Recently enacted laws regarding mortgage brokering have done much to help consumers.  There are now standards in place that a mortgage broker must comply with when charging a client fees.  To avoid having the mortgage deemed as a “High Cost Mortgage” the mortgage broker must keep the fees charged under a certain threshold.  In every state except California a mortgage broker does not have a fiduciary responsibility, financial liability for giving bad financial advice,  to act in the best interests of their client.  A word to the wise looking to purchase a mortgage outside of California is to shop around.

It is especially important to be extremely cautious with the high occurrence of mortgage fraud reported by the FBI.  If a broker asks you to falsify documents, for example your monthly income, then you need to cut ties with them immediately and report this activity to the authorities.  Another area where a dishonest mortgage broker may seek to defraud a borrower is by refusing to reveal their yield spread premium or some other illegal hidden fee before the deal has been closed.  The federal government is working hard to put an end to these sorts of dishonest mortgage practices and with the help of well-informed consumers these type of predatory lenders can be stopped.  Using the information in this article can help you to choose a reputable mortgage broker to handle your loan.

There will be a small window to get in at the beging and make some money. What does the past tell you of the future.

I do reverse mortgage and refiances with fha and Va, leads are bad right now do you have any ideas that could help me get my name out there?

I know the market is tough and slow. Can anyone offer advice on obtaining work and experience?

I have recently acquired my mortgage brokers license and was wondering how I can get myself out there on the market. I have tried making flyers and stuff, but it really hasn’t helped any. I also made a website and am in the process of submitting it to the search engines, but that also takes a while. Does anyone have any experience marketing themselves or advice they can give me? Anything would be greatly appreciated.