Is bail out relief in the billions to banks and the mortgage industry really the answer? Will it really help the economy or hurt the economy and country even more? We have many families losing jobs and the highest unemployment in 15 years hitting 9.3% in Los Angeles. California being more and more less desirable for businesses to remain in California or be able to do their business here.

Is it just another way for the rich to get richer and the poor get poorer? Just another way for wealthy investors to flip homes? Isn’t many of the reasons why we are really in this mortgage mess is investors flipping properties, some realtors not listing homes on the MLS so they can double end a property instead of split a commission, only present an offer to a homeowner if that listing real estate agent represents the homebuyer too and even holding open houses and telling a homebuyer if they really want this home they can’t use their real estate agent and would have to go through the listing agent to get the home, telling a homebuyer to get that home the homebuyer would have to pay such and such price and at times $100,000 or even more over the last recent sale in the same year. Even real estate agents were told that there is so many relocating to Southern California that from this point on there will not be enough housing to those moving to Southern California and many homebuyers may never be able to afford to buy a home due to increasing prices so homebuyers will need to pay the growing inflated prices. Homebuyers getting an interest only loan just so they could get into a home thinking in a few years there would be so much equity in their home they can refinance getting a better loan or just buy another upgraded home.

I’ve personally lived in Canyon Lake for 3 years and some homes have been sitting vacant since before I’ve lived here and obviously no one has maintained the home including water and probably the POA dues weren’t paid by someone. Seeing the properties sit vacant for at least 3 years and not even having a for sale sign or on the MLS personally ticks me off. In the 1990’s banks would list their properties with real estate agents and put the homes on the MLS once vacant and available so the home still had a chance to sell for a fair price not hurting the property values drastically as home auctions. In today’s economy many families are willing to work with the banks, still many getting kicked out of their homes because the bank won’t work with them, the homes sit vacant long lengths at a time with no real estate sign and not even listed for sale, not on the MLS so real estate agents and the public see it available and have the opportunity to be sold at a fair price and even auction off the home for an unreasonable way below even current market values.

Example a Canyon Lake home sold in August 2004 single family residence, 1500 sq. ft. waterfront with dock, 50 ft. wide lot, sale price $690,000 loan amount $565,000. The homeowner recently had financial problems and instead of the bank reappraising the home to today’s fair market value, negotiating a lower interest rate, not working with the current homeowner, doesn’t list the property so real estate agents know the home is available, not listed on the MLS, auctions off the home with the homeowner still living in the home that’s still wanting to negotiate with the bank to keep the home. Most of the public doesn’t know about auctions or how to get information about homes being auctioned. Most homebuyers wanting to purchase a home rely on websites such as http://www.Realtor.com and a real estate agent thinking all real estate agents have access to what is available to buy. Even going to a search engine such as Google inputting the actual address most times no information comes up on these homes and is a secret to even real estate agents that may even have a homebuyer that would consider buying that home at fair market value. The example home was auctioned off recently for $250,000. Is this right? We have wealthy investors buying up properties well below a fair market price, less than half of what the actual loan is, available to very few that have information on the property with just intentions of turning around listing with a real estate agent for what the area is currently selling for. The losers are families being kicked out of their home, ruined credit, many that can never recover and tax payers having to pay to help the bank bail outs and the banks keep asking for more and more bail out money.

Banks should be doing everything possible to work with the homeowner or as soon as the home is foreclosed and vacant list the property for sale with a real estate agent with a for sale sign on the property and on the MLS so everyone can see the home is available and for what price. Laws need to be in place that banks need to have to list a property for at least 90 for sale with a real estate agent and listed on the MLS for the public to see at a fair market price before a home can be auctioned off. If the bank does not they should lose their license. Receiving bail out money and just dumping a property for any price is not the answer and will not help the economy or country.

You bring up a very good point with bringing to light the issue on what will happen when the treasury happens to sell their shares. Yea all is find and dandy that they have these shares now, but the point of this program is to make money for the treasury. Therefore when reasonable they will have the ability to unload millions of shares on the market. Will there be buyers? Could this wave of selling bring down the banks even more? Granted this is all hoping that these companies are still around….

Keep the faith!
Steve
http://www.stevenwevodau.biz

Keep the faith!
Steve
http://www.stevenwevodau.biz

Another company will fill it’s space, why should taxpayers be used
on the scale of Millions, or even Billions for a blunder they made?

They was taking the risk, this could of fallen on them even without
the ecomonmic situation going bad.
Some will argue what about all the lost jobs; they won’t be lost for long,
Other companies will fill their space, and new, and better management,
will be there instead of keeping in ones who made the risky and bad mistakes.