Subprime Mortgage Plan – Ways to Find Out if You Are Facing Subprime Mortgage
by Vlastula
Although there are many ways to find out if you have subprime mortgage, but sometimes the process of determining if you have a subprime mortgage is complicated and hard to be developed. One thing is sure: if you know that you have problems with your credit loan, then you certainly have a subprime mortgage. Still, there are consumers that are amazed when discovering that even if they have a suitable credit they obviously are trapped in a subprime mortgage.
Some key characteristics from which you can realize that you are facing a subprime mortgage and one of those important aspects is that you must pay attention at is the level of the interest rate: if it is higher than the market level, it is not a good sign. Moreover, if the level of your mortgage rate is in the 15% range and the offered interest rate is around 5%, then you are definitely facing with a subprime mortgage.
Another way from which you can notice if you are having a subprime mortgage is the case of having the possibility to purchase your house with less than 20% for a down payment. Even if encountering this kind of situation does not guarantees 100% that you are having a subprime mortgage, still it is crucial to analyze it carefully because you are viewed as a credit risk when requesting the purchase of a mortgage insurance. The insurance is not required only for those borrowers who get a higher mortgage than 80% of the financed house, but also for those borrowers that are considered as being subprime.
During the last years, two categories of mortgage were frequently discovered among subprime borrowers. The low-doc mortgage is the first category and where the paperwork needed is not as substantial as in a usual mortgage. The non-doc mortgage is the second type for which no paperwork is required so that the subprime mortgage loan to be accepted. Hence, for the low-doc and non-doc types of mortgage the documentation about the income situation is little in comparison with other alternatives. Some information regarding the income is needed so that people can provide a home mortgage and if they do not have that information it is very difficult to obtain a good mortgage loan.
Remember that if you have one of these types of mortgage, the low-doc or the non-doc, you will surely be considered subprime because of the impossibility to prove and check your financial situation. But this could have a strong impact on your credit history or not, depending on your status. For this reason, if you own a good credit but without any documentation, you will be considered as a risk in the eye of a lender. Plus, if you think about the mortgage crisis and the recently housing shock, you will revise your decision. To sum up, there are many ways to determine and discover whether you are facing a subprime mortgage or not, and many options you need to consider when deciding to have a mortgage loan and how your decision could affect your budget.
Here’s the first episode.
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I just saw this, it helped me to better understand the subprime mortgage in order for me to participate in a forum critical for my diploma, Thanks alot, you’re awesome in the way you make big ideas easy to understand
Great insight! This is really informative.
I would like to second this comment. I am one year later than tophers in the exact same situation…a senior at Penn State. I learned more about the subprime mortgage crisis in 7 minutes and 44 seconds than I have all semester, or year, or longer. I’m not paying 20k a year but not far off and I want to cry now. I am going to download the This American Life podcast immediately. Thank you!
Amazing! The “Scrooge want more” monster is just THE best lol xD
@bumzurvaj
I’m sure that’s what Scrooge is….lol
who’s scrooge mc.duck in reality? :/
I’m doing a 1000 word, six graphs, six citations, two sources, explaining bout the Economic Meltdown, and have to explain Federal Reserve, monetary Policy, intrest rates, ARM, Sub prime, mortgage back securities, inflation, deflation, selling and buying securities, finacial giants. ANd ur video is helping meh with the Sub prime, thank ya!
thanks very useful
@bumzurvaj hahaha
This video fails to adress one key, and possibly most critical variable: THE JEWS.
In a society in which money has become the one and only measure of ALL things,
corruption will became the? only lived religion!
“what do u think about credit unions? are credit unions better than banks?? i want to close my account with bank of america schwab and vanguard but i need a place to put my money
thank you for making it even possible to start on my research assignment. THANK YOU.
Thanks for this–I will be using it in my Consumer Education classes!
@111chicity Data? So maybe your not full of shit…and perhaps would quote your source rather than post a dog shit response!
thank you so much! love this!!
@DullardGuy It actually was successful its just when deregulation started where all these banks started to lend to anyone then that’s when the problems started. Data actually shows that about 15% of CRA approved banks lent sub prime mortgages.So anyone with logic would be able to see CRA didn’t cause this crisis. Maybe your not stupid but just uninformed so hope this helps.
So was it Scrooge McDuck who screwed us, or was it Alan Greenspan?
love it!
good video! nicely explained, good job!
good video! nicely explained, good job!
@kettefu Very true! CRA targetted the low income, moderate income demographic. If subprime credit card loans failed …gee. who would have thought subprime lending of mortgages would have been hugely successful!
you were right right up until the end the you over generalised and over simplified
dude how many friggin times do you want to say scrooge? bloody hell!
6:32 seems like an oversimplification, without exact or even general details.
Truth. If lenders stuck with 65-75% ltv – as they do in Canada for instance – instead of the 80 or 90%+ ltv the fallout woud have been alot less and losses – even among foresclosures – would have been manageable.