With an impact of foreclosures appearing on the market in the next few years it has never been more formidable to have information about the HUD 9548 contract. Most licensed agents despise HUD sales. Professional analysts are predicting default rates in the sequential years will be higher than every one we have ever seen ever since lending started. Why will this touch upon HUD inventory? Because many loans created from 2005-2009 were fha backed, new home buyer loans. Scores of those loans will soon be foreclosed upon. Subsequently the appraisal of those homes will now be lower and in the FHA lending range thresholds. New home buyers will be possessed to once again dare to achieve the American Dream. Why does that matter? Read on.
by LenDietrich


With an impact of foreclosures appearing on the market in the next few years it has never been more formidable to have information about the HUD 9548 contract. Most licensed agents despise HUD sales. Professional analysts are predicting default rates in the sequential years will be higher than every one we have ever seen ever since lending started. Why will this touch upon HUD inventory? Because many loans created from 2005-2009 were fha backed, new home buyer loans. Scores of those loans will soon be foreclosed upon. Subsequently the appraisal of those homes will now be lower and in the FHA lending range thresholds. New home buyers will be possessed to once again dare to achieve the American Dream. Why does that matter? Read on.



Think about his. When the foreclosure crash initiated in 2005 buyers were running afraid and the "then" current home owners were panicking. What most didn't consider was that there were anxious, potential home buyers waiting in the wings that had been saving for years to buy a home. And, nationwide, they signed up quickly to get a home...tens of thousands.

Move forward two years to 07. Market in a down slide. Home prices declining. Anxious, new buyers qualifying for loans and homes. Then, the Feds enact a first time home buyer tax credit and some states followed suit by offering state tax credits as well that continued on through 2010. Another buying explosion.

Why does this matter at this time? Because many banks love fha insured lending as their loan, to a certain percentage, is guaranteed against default and, predatory lending was still happening in 07. The government hadn't regulated these clowns. So, since the tax credits were offered, many persuadable, first time buyers were signing up to get a loan and new home for whatever price and, no matter what the cost. Most of those loans were 3/1 and 5/1 ARM's. So, 2007 until 2010 ='s 3 years and then default. Boom! Another crisis is looming.

While those buyers were motivated, they bought because of the tax credits offered and minimal down payment. All buyers didn't consider that home prices were descending and the country was about to come into a deep, multi year recession. They were just in love with the American Dream. Well, many of those buyers lost their jobs in the past couple of years and have now exhausted their saving and are now lagging behind on their loans.

Let's be honest, in our opinion, FHA borrowers/first time home buyers, for the most part, are cash poor. With a double dip recession on the horizon tons of these fha borrowers have received an NOD and are on the verge of officially defaulting. Hordes of excited, new home owners from 2007 are now nervous trying to rescue their home. The proper processes weren't in place. Another catastrophe is upon us. We tried to solve a problem with a problem.

So, why is it more important now than ever before to consider hud home sales and how to efficiently close these escrows? It is because FHA/HUD homes are now going to be the norm in the market place. In the past, home prices were inflated tremendously. When getting started as a new real estate agent you need to learn every dynamic associated with the Housing and Urban Development procedures and also the Federal Housing Administration lending. If you learn these simple procedures now and master them you'll never will have a problem with getting an offer accepted or closed.

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