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MORE GOOD NEWS FOR FIRST TIME HOME BUYERS, USE TAX CREDIT AS DOWNPAYMENT

May 18, 2009 By Jeff Cameron

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Yes, that is NAR working to find answers to the mortgage meltdown. HUD is working on a program with preferred lenders to use the First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit of $8,000 as a down payment.
This would add to demand. This whole issue right now is about supply and demand. Oh and don’t listen to those naysayers that blamed this whole mess on 100% financing. This problem was not caused by 100% financing or stated income. It was caused because lenders fraudulently putting people in loans not designed for them. What I mean is the stated income loans were designed for people that were paid through 1099. Those people are unjustly qualified by lenders and thus many times need stated income. A 1099 self employed individual may have $2,000 a month is payments as part of their expenses. Lenders require them to count that expense twice, once in their P & L and again when qualifying for the loan. Thus, stated income was needed. However, in the heyday, when a buyer did not qualify through conventional means the lender just switched them to stated income. Even though the buyer was a W-2 employee. Most buyers had no idea this was happening, nor that it was fraudulent.
OMG, I went off on a tangent again. Read the article below from NAR about HUD allowing buyers to use their tax credit towards their downpayment.
Just my opinion…Jeff Cameron

WASHINGTON, May 12, 2009

Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, said that the
Federal Housing Administration is going to permit its lenders to allow homeowners to use the $8,000 tax credit as a downpayment.

Donovan’s remarks came in an address to several thousand Realtors® gathered this morning at The Real Estate Summit: Advancing the U.S. Economy, a special daylong session at the Realtors® Midyear Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo here.

Secretary Donovan said that important changes, which the National Association of Realtors® has been calling for, will help consumers purchase a home. “We all want to enable FHA consumers to access the home buyer tax credit funds when they close on their home loans so that the cash can be used as a downpayment,” Donovan said. According to Donovan, the FHA’s approved lenders will be permitted to “monetize” the tax credit through short-term bridge loans. This will allow eligible home buyers to access the funds immediately at the closing table.

Donovan said the Obama administration plans to further stabilize the housing market. “I do think we have some early signs hat the market overall is stabilizing,” said Donovan. “Since January we’ve seen both home sales moving up and down around a relatively stable number and we are seeing the first signs that the rapid decline in home prices is starting to abate.”

http://www.realtor.org/press_room/news_releases/2009/05/re_summit?lid=ronav0019

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: FHA, first time home buyer tax credit, HUD, jeff cameron, the cameron team

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