[quote=sdrealtor]Here’s a new story from the field about a shadow inventory house. I have never heard one like this but when I hear one I gotta beleive there are others. It’s a true story and some posters will write it off as a realtor fabrication but its not. I do not have the exact details but what i have is close enough. I was floored and still am. I was actually out partying last nite with a regular Pigg poster who can cooberate it.
I bumped into an old client who tried but failed to sell his house a couple years ago because he couldnt get what he wanted/needed. He had an extended period of unemployment and refi’d into a neg am Option ARM just under 600K about a year before he tried to sell. He neg am’d up to around 700K and it recast. He couldnt afford the payments so he stopped paying. He approached the bank for a loan mod and went back and forth for about a year. He owed almost 700K plus another $50K in missed payments. He was willing and ready to walk if the bank foreclosed. Out of nowhere he got contacted by the bank with an offer. New loan for about $490K and a sub 5% 30 yr fixed rate. Thats a principle reduction of about $200K plus forgiving a years worth of interest payments.
Oops there goes another shadow inventory house, oops there goes another…….[/quote]
Ask him to let you read the loan documents.
Until you read the documents, a principle reduction is speculation. Frequently, the borrower does not read and does not understand.
The typical situation would be that the new terms do not include a principle reduction. Usually some amount of principle is set to an interest rate of zero and a payment rate of zero, but is still due, hopefully to be collected in the future after values rise again.
The lender will now collect a substantial payment instead of zero. The gutted mark-to-market rules allow the lender to avoid writing down the asset value and capital value.
