The Underwater Mortgage: How To Survive Your Sinking Ship While Keeping Your Sense of Humor

The Underwater Mortgage: How to Survive Your Sinking Ship While Keeping Your Sense of Humor by Bud and Kristin Gragg gives you all the help you need to make the right financial decision now for you and your family. Power-packed with tips, tricks, and techniques available only here, The Underwater Mortgage can keep you afloat and save your financial peace of mind. The authors teach you how to put all the cards on the table and, most importantly, stack them in your favor. Their book documents their experience-from the rise of their significant portfolio (over $24 million in investment real estate), through the economic perfect storm, and ultimately how they got their family to higher ground.

Mortgage-Backed Securities: Products, Structuring, and Analytical Techniques (Frank J. Fabozzi Series)

An up-to-date look at the latest innovations in mortgage-backed securities

Since the last edition of Mortgage-Backed Securities was published over three years ago, much has changed in the structured credit market. Frank Fabozzi, Anand Bhattacharya, and William Berliner all have many years of experience working in the fixed-income securitization markets, and have witnessed many cycles of change in the mortgage and MBS sectors. And now, with the Second Edition of Mortgage-Backed Securities, they share their knowledge on many of the products and structuring innovations that have taken place since the financial crisis and fiscal reform.
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Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance

The financial collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008 led to one of the most sweeping government interventions in private financial markets in history. The bailout has already cost American taxpayers close to $150 billion, and substantially more will be needed. The U.S. economy–and by extension, the global financial system–has a lot riding on Fannie and Freddie. They cannot fail, yet that is precisely what these mortgage giants are guaranteed to do. How can we limit the damage to our economy, and avoid making the same mistakes in the future?

Guaranteed to Fail explains how poorly designed government guarantees for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac led to the debacle of mortgage finance in the United States, weighs different reform proposals, and provides sensible, practical recommendations. Despite repeated calls for tougher action, Washington has expanded the scope of its guarantees to Fannie and Freddie, fueling more and more housing and mortgages all across the economy–and putting all of us at risk. This book unravels the dizzyingly immense, highly interconnected businesses of Fannie and Freddie. It proposes a unique model of reform that emphasizes public-private partnership, one that can serve as a blueprint for better organizing and managing government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In doing so, Guaranteed to Fail strikes a cautionary note about excessive government intervention in markets.

Commercial Mortgages 101: Everything You Need to Know to Create a Winning Loan Request Package

With real estate prices at their lowest in years and the economy poised for a rebound, it's an opportune time to invest in commercial real estate. But credit and financing issues can still pose challenges that prospective borrowers must overcome in order to get the money and mortgage terms they need. Commercial Mortgages 101 is a step-by-step guide for both real estate investors and mortgage brokers, offering insight, practical tools and a thorough overview of commercial mortgage underwriting and credit analysis. Readers will learn how to: Think and speak like a commercial real estate lender * Quickly size and under write a basic commercial real estate loan * Prepare a personal cash flow statement and calculate true net worth and liquidity * Read and interpret a lender's preliminary loan proposal * Create a Schedule of Real Estate Owned * Prepare a persuasive and professional loan request package * Choose the right form of ownership (including LP, LLC, Co-tenancy and others) * And more Both thorough and timely, Commercial Mortgages 101 reveals what readers need to ensure their loans are approved.

More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times

A clear look at how to capture investment profits during difficult financial times

The U.S. economy has become crippled by the credit and real estate catastrophe. Even though we've all been affected by the calamity and have heard no shortage of news about it, it still seems unfathomable and utterly incomprehensible to most people that the actions of certain mortgage brokers, bankers, ratings agencies, and investment banks could break the economic engine of the world.
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Fight Foreclosure!: How to Cope with a Mortgage You Can’t Pay, Negotiate with Your Bank, and Save Your Home

Fight Foreclosure! offers a practical, step-by-step system for taking action to prevent foreclosure on your home before it?s too late. If you?re having trouble keeping up with your payments, the worst thing you can do is nothing. This book explores all your options, weighs the pros and cons of each, and explains the pre-foreclosure process in detail. Plus, it points out the too-good-to-be-true credit repair offers you should avoid and gives you real, practical alternatives that help you help yourself before it?s too late.

How to Save Thousands of Dollars on Your Home Mortgage, 2nd Edition

Find The Home Mortgage That's Right For You

Finding the right mortgage can be complex, confusing, and frustrating. But that doesn't mean you have to settle for anything other than the terms you want. This indispensable and newly updated second edition of How to Save Thousands of Dollars on Your Home Mortgage spells out everything mortgage hunters need to know in clear and accessible terms. It covers more loan alternatives than any other book and examines the importance of discount points. It offers complete details on virtually every mortgage option currently available, what advantages each option offers, how to choose the right one for your needs, and how to save money in the process. New information in this edition will help you use the Internet to find a home and get a mortgage, examine automated underwriting models and conforming loan limits, and weigh new shopping strategies. Easy-to-read charts and graphs, helpful sample forms, and numerous examples will help you understand:
* First-time buyers programs
* APR, buy-downs, reverse mortgages, accelerated payoffs, and zero point loans
* Refinancing strategies
* Closing costs, lender fees, and other expenses
* How to dispute credit report errors and fix credit problems
* How to use the Internet for loan analysis

Mind Your Own Mortgage: The Wise Homeowner’s Guide to Choosing, Managing, and Paying Off Your Mortgage

This Is the Book Lenders DON’T Want You to Read.EMPOWERING HOMEOWNERS TO SHOP, MANAGE, AND ELIMINATE MORTGAGE DEBTA mortgage is simply a pile of money. So why the complexity? Because the mortgage industry makes it that way. And the industry enslaves homeowners to mortgage debt.Mind Your Own Mortgage changes the game by revealing inside information previously used against you. Now you are in charge: * Shop with confidence—an exclusive, automated system helps you find the best price—it’s as easy as buying a gallon of gas * Identify slick sales gimmicks and lender manipulation * Refinance only when it make sense for you—not for the mortgage company * Eliminate your mortgage in record time—so your retirement years include retirementAVOID HOUSING MELTDOWN #2Despite the collapse, today’s system invites you to make the same mistakes all over again. Steer clear—only a sound mortgage will build a strong household economy. And a strong household economy is good for America, too.Stocked with compelling real-life scenarios, budgeting tips, and powerful financial tools, Mind Your Own Mortgage is a timely wake-up call for homeowners and a candid decree that the American dream is still possible—if we dramatically rethink the way we finance our homes.IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE. IT’S TIME TO MIND YOUR OWN MORTGAGE. “Whether you’re getting a new mortgage, refinancing an old one, or dealing with the mortgage you have already, you won’t find a better mortgage coach than my friend, Rob Bernabé.” —Mary Hunt, personal finance expert, best-selling author, and CEO of Debt-Proof Living“Finally, consumers have what they need to hold any mortgage provider accountable.” ?R. Jarret Lilien, founder and managing partner of Bendigo Partners and former president and COO of E*Trade Financial

Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis

An updated and revised look at the truth behind America's housing and mortgage bubbles

In the summer of 2007, the subprime empire that Wall Street had built all came crashing down. On average, fifty lenders a month were going bust-and the people responsible for the crisis included not just unregulated loan brokers and con artists, but also investment bankers and home loan institutions traditionally perceived as completely trustworthy.
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