I personally know someone who had a World Savings option ARM (now Wells Fargo) and they reduced her loan balance by around $40,000 and converted her a 40 yr fixed a 4.875%. She can now rent her property and cash flow or actually sell and break even! So she got 1% for 6 yrs w/ a World Savings pick-a-pay and then did not have to pay the piper. Got a free lunch.
This blog has some info on what Wells Fargo is doing with option arms:
It just continues to really bother me how stupid people who got themselves into that crap are not having to pay for the consquences. And conservative people who DID NOT overextend themselves get nothing.
And I about barf when I hear so many people talk about how they were duped into these loans. Yes a few were. But the majority knew exactly what they were getting into with option arms. The lady I’m talking about above was actually IN THE LOAN BUSINESS.
What ever happened about *personal responsibility* in this country and actually READING WHAT YOU SIGN and taking responsibility for your own friggen life and finances. It makes me sick to hear all the whiners blamming others for the financial situation they got themselves into.
