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Here is a news story that came out last week (I like to let things "stew" for a while before going off half cocked).
(CNN) -- Fannie Mae said it will set aside the loan of a woman who shot herself as sheriff's deputies tried to evict her from her foreclosed home.
Addie Polk, 90, of Akron, Ohio, became a symbol of the nation's home mortgage crisis when she was hospitalized after shooting herself at least twice in the upper body Wednesday afternoon.
On Friday, Fannie Mae spokesman Brian Faith said the mortgage association had decided to halt action against Polk and sign the property "outright" to her.
"We're going to forgive whatever outstanding balance she had on the loan and give her the house," Faith said. "Given the circumstances, we think it's appropriate."
Are you serious? Someone tries to take their own life because they got in upside down on a house and you are going to forgive them their debts? How many gun toting people are going to "attempt" to kill themselves now to get their homes free?
Well...surely then she must have been a victim of predatory lending and had one of those exotic mortgages right?
In 2004, Polk took out a 30-year, 6.375 percent mortgage for $45,620 with a Countrywide Home Loan office in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The same day, she also took out an $11,380 line of credit.
Over the next couple of years, Polk missed payments on the 101-year-old home that she and her late husband purchased in 1970. In 2007, Fannie Mae assumed the mortgage and later filed for foreclosure.
Ummm....what? She has a 30 year fixed rate mortgage with a rate that was .125 higher than my first rate (I refinanced earlier this year) and I have excellent credit. She doesn't appear to have been scammed.
If anyone should have been forgiven of their loan it should have been the mom back in July that killed herself and told her husband and son to use the money to pay off the house.
I whole heartedly disagree with the precedent set. Just wait until the flood gates open.
Here are links to the sources:
Fannie Mae forgives loan for woman who shot herself
Massachusetts Woman Commits Suicide Before Home Foreclosure
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I bet the police won't even charge her for firing a weapon within city limits.. Just think if she missed herself she could have shot a neighbor kid..
There is no thing as a free lunch.
If it's too good to be true....
Sound sage advice they should have been thinking when the mortgage companies were dangling the carrot.
If I was the old woman, I would have lit a match to it and walked away. =P
How anyone can say she needed a bailout is beyond me. I am opposed to helping people that got in over their heads. I pay my bills, and I read the fine print. I am fine if a bank wants to redo a loan for people in this situation...but they should not get a lower rate than me, and they should not have part of their loan forgiven because the value of their house went down.
This lady was not like a lot of Americans that got into exotic mortgages with rates that reset. She was on a 30 year fixed mortgage with a very decent (less than market now) rate.
Congress chose to single her out as a casualty of the current situation when she is in fact far from it. She likely had a problem/unexpected expense etc that set her back (as anyone of us could).