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March 4, 2007 at 8:04 AM #8515March 4, 2007 at 8:19 AM #46850AnonymousGuest
Yes – Pls see my post above, “San Marcos Sale – Something aint Right”…..
March 4, 2007 at 8:27 AM #46852AnonymousGuestTo purchase the house and get cash back from the seller outside of escrow would be considered fraud. A better option would be to purchase the house at $500,000 and request that the seller “gift” you equity of $100,000. Then you could later get a second mortgage for the $100K.
March 4, 2007 at 8:31 AM #4685423109VCParticipantassuming i found a seller that would ‘gift’ me the $100k… i still think that price may fall enough that i’m smarter to wait.
even assuming i pulled it off and got a $100k gift and then could write off that $1000 payment… that saves me what.. $400/month or so in income…
assuming a house purchase at 500k, 100% fiancing… does saving $400 on my student loan offset the extra $$ i’d pay ont he loan, taxes,e tc??
i kind of thin it would be smarter to wait for prices to tank.. buy the house at $400k..then sit tight. let prices rise over time..and SOME DAY much further odwn the line… refi and pay off the student loan…
i’m no financial guru… i can see the benefit of the refi/pay off student loan, and make the payment a deduction… but wodl it make sense in this real estate market to fina seller willing to do it…and do it now…but be stuck in the house?
March 4, 2007 at 8:39 AM #46855AnonymousGuestPlease don’t think that I am saying that you should do this. I was simply answering your question as to how/whether or not it would be legal to get the $100K back from the seller.
March 4, 2007 at 9:51 AM #46859BugsParticipantThese schemes are more about financing terms and mortgage fraud than anything else. The irony is that it takes both a fraudulent appraisal (to overvalue the property) and a lazy/indifferent lender (to not see that) to pull it off. If the lender cared enough about having good loans they’d catch the crooked appraisal up front.
March 4, 2007 at 10:04 AM #468614plexownerParticipantBugs – what do you think of this scenario – instead of doing a fraudulent appraisal to overvalue the property, we find a distressed property in a decent area and ‘overlook’ the reasons it is distressed
For example, there is another post talking about two houses in San Marcos that back up to the train tracks and yet they recently sold for $710K
Couldn’t an appraiser value these houses against the rest of the development and assume that the train tracks are a non-issue? Aren’t appraisers supposed to use their personal judgement? At what point does personal judgement become fraud?
This scenario is essentially the “buy the worst house in the best neighborhood” philosophy being applied in a declining vs rising market.
March 4, 2007 at 5:10 PM #46885Cow_tippingParticipant23109VC on March 4, 2007 – 11:31am wrote …
i kind of thin it would be smarter to wait for prices to tank.. buy the house at $400k..then sit tight. let prices rise over time..and SOME DAY much further odwn the line… refi and pay off the student loan…
Prices will rise over time … sure about that ???
I think as baby boomers retire, they will dump their houses, yea those built in the 70’s shitboxes with lead paint and asbestos in the walls … to the point where it will take 30-50 years to clear out the surplus. You know, they are all counting on their house to fund their cushy retirement. Guess what … never gonna happen, Hyperinflation is comming, but house prices aren’t figured in cost of living, rents are. I’d bet rents will stagnate a bit too before they slowly … very very slwoly rise, wages will stagnate a lot longer thanks to china dumping the market with manufactured goods with slave labor … but house prices will not rise … interest rates will rise but houses will be worth less and less … 30-40 years IMHO.
Cool.
Cow_tipping.March 4, 2007 at 5:38 PM #46886BugsParticipant4plex,
Sadly, it’s been my experience that even the most crooked appraiser will swear up and down that they are among the most professional appraisers there are. I think a lot of these jokers might even believe it. When I start talking about these things to my students I occassionally get a donkey who starts in with the “this is how it is in the real world” rationale. Needless to say, that’s an impossible rationale for them to defend for more than about 2 minutes. Everyone knows the difference between right and wrong.
The way most “bad” appraisals are manipulated are in the mischaracterization of the subject property’s
attributes. “Overlooking” defiencies is probably the 2nd most popular way of dorking an appraisal, surpassed only by the use of obviously superior quality/appeal properties as representing the “most similar” comps. Really, the two are usually done together.The problem for the appraiser who does this is that the facts pretty much speak for themselves. Those properties that back to the rail tracks won’t be by themselves, they’ll have neighboring properties that also back to those tracks. In addition, all those properties have prior sales that can be compared to the similar prior sales of nearby “comps” that don’t have that problem, so the penalty for that location factor is readily apparent with even just a cursory glance at that data.
The only thing a donkey appraiser would have going for them is that it takes some extra effort to research and analyze these factors in review, and most lenders don’t want to pay the costs that go with that extra work. They just want to keep their assembly line rolling with the least amount of distractions. Penny wise and pound foolish, if you will.
They only start to care once they start taking some of those $100k hits. Then they’ll be all over appraisers for misdeeds past. Unfortunately, by the time that happens they’re already too late. They should have shown the requisite diligence BEFORE they made thse loans, not after.
Bad deals are made during good times.
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