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Over and over politicians have told us that they want to do what they can to mitigate the effects of the Foreclosure Crisis, but I haven’t seen anything other than bailouts and pleas.
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H.R. 1852: Expanding American Homeownership Act of 2007 has a clause in it that rids the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) qualification that requires brokers to have liquid assets, $60,000 in the bank, to get approved to do FHA loans. It replaces the liquid asset requirement with a $100k surety bond, which is a bond that a third party gaurantees that they will pay up to $100k to the federal government on demand if the broker does not live up to his/her commitments, aka fraud or regulatory fine).
This will allow more brokers to originate FHA loans for borrowers that have sub par credit and anytime you have more loans that translates to more borrowers and less of a seller market. Also keep in mind that, brokers will not be underwriting the files as the lenders will. The subprime crisis will be tapered as it will allow more origination options for homeowners to save their homes and will allow more buyers to buy homes. This is a simple fix to the problem, but it is getting jammed up.
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2 comments so far...
I am a licensed Mortgage Broker and I am wondering what is the latest about the bond vs liquid asset requirement for a broker to become FHA approved?
Have we made any progress on getting the asset requirment removed?
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