Part 3 – One of the things I mentioned at the beginning of the last segment is this special allotment of funds that we received from one of our mortgage banks that we currently have available, a 30 year fixed, no pre payment penalty this is the real deal just what youre looking for a 4.875% interest rate with an APR of 4.95% and that is available we do have people at the office right now if you have questions in regard to that they can answer them for you. You would call 480-Velocity

Michael, I have some clients who are buyers that would love that rate. Is that available to buyers as well? Actually, yes its that rate is for a no cash out refinance, no higher than 80% LTV, they have to have perfect credit to hit this number but even in some cases, well with this particular loan there are some closing costs, but one of the things we have available too is a no cost option and that interest rate is for people who are doing the purchase or refinancing and that rate is only 5.5%. The interest rate is 5.5% and the APR is 5.5% so that is for purchase money as well.

Were back talking here with Jeri League and Kalyn Roberts, were talking about the objections to doing short sales, there is another one you wanted to point out Jeri?

Yes, one more objection that people often have when we talk to them about their particular situation is that people feel that they have to be behind on their mortgage payment in order for a bank to consider a short sale and that is not true, the bank analyses everyones entire situation, we have people write a hardship letter, they want to see your financials and there is an entire situation not just being behind on your mortgage payment.

Your hardship may be that youre being relocated by your employer and you simply cant sell your home for what you owe on it due to todays market conditions. The banks will definitely look at that.
People think that the key is that you have to be late but that is not the case. That is really good to know, so we talked about the objections or the pitfalls rather what about the advantages to doing a short sale?

The biggest advantages to doing a short sale are: that its less impactful on your credit typically than a foreclosure and one of the most exciting benefits is that we can often extend the foreclosure and keep you in your house longer. In Arizona banks have a right to start a foreclosure as soon as youre over 30 days late on one mortgage payment. In todays current economic situation most banks are not starting that process for three to six months, but again that is most banks. They can start after one month.

Yes, but once they start the foreclosure process its a 90 day process in Arizona. So you will get a notice that says basically you have 90 days to come current with the note or to move and they are taking your house and selling it in 90 days. Now once we start the short sale process many times we can extend that foreclosure date.

I have personally done one that we had the home owner in for almost a year from when they stopped making their mortgage payments. Its not uncommon to be two or three months past the original foreclosure date that they gave you which of course gives people a lot longer time to decide what they are going to do, especially if its a family, they are not in such a rush to move, they can keep their kids in the same school district, there are so many reasons that that is a good advantage.

So Kalyn the truth is that homes that are occupied generally are better off and easier to sell than vacant homes right? So long as people are in the house and taking care of the house, if the house looks lived in but not trashed. What youre saying is lenders would just as soon leave them in the house then to have it vacant and potentially vandalized.

Definitely, the lenders prefer to have somebody living in there because they are taking care of the home, like you just said when the homes are vacant there is a high risk of them being vandalized, unfortunately and the worse the economic situation in the country gets the higher the vandalism rate on homes goes. In fact we were talking with a realtor in our office who typically takes listings in some of the lower income areas in town and they are going to stop putting signs on vacant listing because they are getting vandalized so much… http://realestatemarketingthisweek.com

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Part 2 (Excerpt)

The median income family can afford twice the median priced home; prices drop over 50%

And now I mentioned Dan Havey is back in the studio with us, Dan has done a lot of great things in the mortgage industry. He left us about a year and a half ago, is that right Dan?

Yes, I left the mortgage industry in October of 2007. Tell us a little bit more about yourself.

As you know I came originally from Wisconsin, where I got a degree in Business Finance and I came out here in 1989 and started working with my brother selling real estate owned-REO, bank owned properties for Fannie Mae, Countrywide, and the Resolution Trust Corporation-RTC which was the government entity that was put in charge of disposing of all the real estate owned by the 1800 S&Ls that had failed. I did that until about 1995 when I moved into the mortgage industry and there for 12 years I worked predominately with bankruptcy attorneys helping their clients get out of bankruptcy and foreclosure. I left the mortgage industry in October of 2007. Now I am working predominately in the arena of marketing for real estate and mortgage companies, helping out companies, just like Im here helping out Michael today, to get people to realize that right now actually is a really good time to buy.

There are a couple of points I want to make and it was something that Michael had said earlier. The first one was that 4% interest rate. Originally Obama said a couple of weeks ago, when he rolled out the mortgage plan, that they were going to take the $200 billion and use it to buy mortgage backed securities, well the article I was reading today said it appears that plan may have changed. Instead of buying the mortgage backs they were actually buying the stock of Fannie and Freddie to help support the company and keep these companies going under. I dont quite understand why being how they own them now.

Well youve got to hand it to the government they have really done a heck of a job helping Fannie Mae out, for instance today the stock is up to $0.41. Wow, doing so well, I remember when it was $150 or so, where it was at the top of the market.

Today, right now is definitely the best time even if rates dont get down to the 4% point. The beauty of it and were going to talk more about this in a later segment, is that we have seen a 51% decline in home values from the peak of the market. So you dont have to have the absolute greatest interest rate in order to be able to buy a house today. The median home price right now is $130,000 in Maricopa County, it was $264,000 just two years ago.

So the median home price is $130,000? We are going to talk a little bit about what a person has to make to actually qualify for that. Well it is definitely well within the means of a median income family. Right now a median income family makes about $64,000 in the state of Arizona according to the US Census Bureau and HUD. I ran some numbers today, I think at 6% interest and at that rate they can buy a $280,000 house. So you can buy twice the median home price if you are making just what the median income family would be in the state of Arizona. So the median household income buys double the median priced house in Maricopa County. That is correct, at 6% interest.

And the reality of it is interest rates are not even that high right now. So for people to be waiting for that perfect interest rate of 4% it doesnt really matter if it gets here or not because right now is such an incredibly fabulous time to be buying a house. There are so many foreclosures out there on the market right now, there are so many short sales out there on the market right now, and the point you made earlier is very important, that people have to get in and get prequalified, know exactly what they can buy. Now in many cases you are going to need a down payment, so get with your mortgage broker, get with Velocity Financial and start working on that program of getting those funds together for the down payment as well.

Dan Havey we talked in the past about whats available for financing these days, interesting to give little pat on the back for Velocity Financial is one of less than 15% of all of the lenders in the state of Arizona that are qualified to do FHA financed homes. Now FHA financing, people used to think it was only for first time home buyers, thats no longer the case. The FHA loan which only requires 3.5% down payment it doesnt matter if you have owned a home before and in many cases you can own another home now so long as your new purchase is going to be your primary residence you can utilize FHA financing and put only 3.5% down.

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