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To: GovernmentShrinker

Time will tell. I just want freepers to carefully consider the pros and cons while refis are still easy to arrange.


58 posted on 01/04/2006 10:30:00 AM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Travis McGee
The only reason refis will dry up is if the government succeeds in shutting down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and thus dries up the capital for the lenders. As long as there is still competition in the mortgage market, lenders will offer refis to poach other lenders' customers and get the servicing assets on their books. They don't even have to make money on the originations, because they make money on the servicing. Lenders have survived declining markets before without a credit crunch. And declining markets usually bring declining interest rates, so not that many ARM borrowers will need to refi anyway.

A bigger problem IMO is skyrocketing local property taxes that stretched homeowners have not budgeted for and cannot pay.

63 posted on 01/04/2006 10:52:45 AM PST by Dems_R_Losers (The Kerry/Lehane/Wilson/Grunwald/Cooper plot to destroy Karl Rove has failed!)
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