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Obama mulls rental option for some homeowners-sources
Reuters ^ | 7/14/2009 | Patrick Rucker

Posted on 07/14/2009 1:08:38 PM PDT by GreaterSwiss

NEW YORK, July 14 (Reuters) - U.S. government officials are weighing a plan that would let borrowers who have fallen behind on their mortgage payments avoid eviction by renting their homes instead, sources familiar with the administration's thinking said on Tuesday.

Under one idea being discussed, delinquent homeowners would surrender ownership of their homes but would continue to live in the property for several years, the sources told Reuters.

Officials are also considering whether the government should make mortgage payments on behalf of borrowers who cannot keep up with their home loans, tapping an unused portion of a $50 billion housing aid kitty.

As part of this plan, jobless borrowers might receive a housing stipend along with regular unemployment benefits, the sources said. (Reporting by Patrick Rucker; Editing by Diane Craft)

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: bailout; bho44; bhoeconomy; economy; foreclosure; formenotforthee; housing; mortgage; obama; slavery
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To: God luvs America

The only way it will end is through your state legislature.
Contact them, encourage state sovereignty legislation, and get ready to fight.


61 posted on 07/14/2009 1:40:17 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Hope nobody wants to smoke in their *own* houses, or keep their firearms there either! And as for that thermostat.....

Don't forget the light bulbs, toilet, and energy efficient appliances...um...and about the fuel efficiency rating of that car in the driveway....The list goes on and on.

I can't even fathom what it would be like if they get ZeroCare passed...on to what's in the refrigerator and medicine cabinets!...

62 posted on 07/14/2009 1:41:57 PM PDT by kara2008 (Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem)
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To: fooman

While I have some sympathy for those who are underwater in their mortgages, I disagree that “you are already renting”. You are not subject to terms of a lease, a landlord who comes and goes, a restriction as to not putting pictures up on the walls or painting a room blue, you can plant a tree in the yard, keep it as clean or dirty as you like.


63 posted on 07/14/2009 1:42:45 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: hope

Oh my!! I love it!


64 posted on 07/14/2009 1:44:13 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Oh, Lordy! We is all gonna be shahcroppahs on Massa Obama’s new plantation!


65 posted on 07/14/2009 1:45:04 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: GreaterSwiss

LOL!

What is the incentive to invest in this country now?

I can see NONE.


66 posted on 07/14/2009 1:47:25 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Told ya, suckas! - Peggy Joseph
67 posted on 07/14/2009 1:48:32 PM PDT by Cooter
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Didn’t they already MULL the idea of loan forgiveness?

What’s next Obama Toilet Paper?


68 posted on 07/14/2009 1:49:08 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: GreaterSwiss

Bottom line—any private owner who considers financing the sale of his house is a LUNATIC. Non-paying squatters could remain there forever.


69 posted on 07/14/2009 1:49:24 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: blue-duncan; P-Marlowe; xzins; Frumanchu; betty boop; Alex Murphy; 1000 silverlings; wmfights
Do you get the feeling that TARP, Auto Bailouts, Stimulus is deja vu of an Israel in Egypt, Joseph buying up property and people with taxpayers money during drought times, all over again?

Wow. That's scary, isn't it?

For a man who can't remember where he met his wife, and who got lots of facts wrong in his autobiography (like the year of Nixon's impeachment), and who thinks he sat on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, he sure is clueless.

Scarier and scarier.

70 posted on 07/14/2009 1:51:13 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Cooter
VIDEO
71 posted on 07/14/2009 1:54:02 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: GreaterSwiss

0bama, the jack-of-all-trades: healthcare provider, car company CEO, landlord/slumlord, what’s next?


72 posted on 07/14/2009 1:54:16 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: NEMDF

exactly. Why should they have the privileges of ownership?


73 posted on 07/14/2009 1:58:01 PM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: GreaterSwiss
Imagine the regulations or conditions the federal government would put on your house if it became federal property?
74 posted on 07/14/2009 1:58:04 PM PDT by rjamesca (Been there, done that . . . for 30 years)
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To: God luvs America

Honestly, if Bambi becomes Dictator for Life as he would like, Big Brother will someday tell me I have too much house for one person, and get me a crappy 1 room Soviet-type apt. while letting a free-loading “family” of 6-8 kids all by different sperm donors trash my house beyond recognition. Don’t think it can’t happen.


75 posted on 07/14/2009 2:00:18 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: MrB

sounds good but one problem- I live in NY which is quickly reverting back to pre-Rudy days as one of the nation’s biggest entitlement parasites...


76 posted on 07/14/2009 2:01:40 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Great idea. Old and busted: HUD and urban renewal programs. New and fresh: If you’re delinquent on house payments, you get sent to the projects so that new lowlife tenants have a place to get high/drunk, kick holes in the walls, break the fixtures, and have a bunch of feral kids that wander the neighborhood destroying property at random.

The liberals have thought of a new way to destroy neighborhoods. Brilliant!


77 posted on 07/14/2009 2:02:50 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Rental Czar?


78 posted on 07/14/2009 2:04:45 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: PGR88
I'm glad to see Michael Steele is on top of this.
79 posted on 07/14/2009 2:05:13 PM PDT by exist
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To: God luvs America

There will necessarily have to be a reshuffling of the population post “divorce”.


80 posted on 07/14/2009 2:05:23 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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