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Can you walk away from a reverse mortgage?
July 9th, 2009
My parents have a reverse mortgage and they need to be in assisted living. The house is not worth much more than the mortgage because they have lived longer than they thought they would! (87) In fact, I think the house may be upside down since I have not checked the value of the home for a while. I know that home values have dropped so their home may have gone down in value too. This seems to be a common problem nowadays with many people who own homes.
This is my question: Can they leave the house to go into assisted living and simply let the mortgage company have the house? What would happen? Also, the taxes and insurance have increased to the point that they can no longer pay them.
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Would a reverse ARM be helpful in resolving the subprime mortgage problem?
June 2nd, 2009
The big problem seems to be people defaulting on their mortgage loans, which leads to foreclosure and losses for the banks.
What if the banks offered to take 20% of the mortgage amount and put it in a non-interest accruing loan account, base mortgage payments on the 80% balance at high interest rate, allow the home owner to make optional payments to pay down the 20% to qualify for lower interests rates on the 80% mortgage, would this be helpful in keeping these mortgages viable?
Would this help in avoiding a taxpayer bailout of the financial system?