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Public Reverse Mortgages and Long-Term Care: Can They Work Together?
March 11, 2010
By: Kaiser Health News
Here’s the problem: By the time we need long-term care services we often don’t have readily available resources to pay for them. Only about seven million Americans have private long-term care insurance. And, on average, retirees have financial assets of less than $100,000—usually in the form of a 40...
Reverse Mortgage Application Volume Continues to Slide Says FHA
February 25, 2010
By: Reverse Mortgage Daily
The Federal Housing Administration’s latest Outlook Report shows that reverse mortgage applications continue to slide. In January, the agency reported it received 5,805 applications for reverse mortgages (HECM), down 16.2% from the prior month and 54.2% lower than the same period in 2009.
Reverse mortgages can be useful, but do your research
February 23, 2010
By: KNDO - WA
The reverse mortgage is a financial tool that is growing in popularity. Designed as a means for elderly homeowners who have substantial home equity and wish to stay in their homes, a reverse mortgage can provide tremendous peace of mind to seniors and help them stay out of painful debt. However, pot...
MBA Supports Federal Regulators Guidance for Reverse Mortgages
February 18, 2010
By: Reverse Mortgage Daily
The Mortgage Bankers Association sent a letter to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), saying it supports efforts by the agency to provide supervisory action to lenders on reverse mortgage products.
Are HECM Reverse Mortgages Too Cheap?
February 17, 2010
By: Money rates.com
Reverse mortgages have been getting some good press of late. Jack Guttentag, for instance, a.k.a. “The Mortgage Professor,” has spent a couple thousand words over the past couple weeks ripping into reverse mortgage fear mongers who claim that reverse mortgages are a rip-off.
Reverse mortgages can offer home loan option
February 12, 2010
By: Fort Morgan Times -CO
Reverse mortgages may be used for more than income in old age. To be sure, a reverse mortgage can be a way to live off the equity in a house while still being able to live in it for the rest of a person’s life, but it can also be a way to finance buying a new home, said David Harder, a senior a...
Illinois AG Files Lawsuits Against Two Reverse Mortgage Lenders
  February 10, 2010 By: Reverse Mortgage Daily Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed lawsuits against two mortgage brokers for using unfair and deceptive marketing practices to solicit seniors for reverse mortgages. “These companies used extremely misleading language in their advertising, sometimes even disguising their loans as government benefit...
The Case for Being Your Mom's Banker
February 9, 2010
By: Wall Street Journal
A reverse mortgage is an appealing way to extract cash from your house—but it comes with baggage. Reverse mortgages, which homeowners who are at least 62 years old can use to tap their home equity, have become more popular in recent years. The homeowner takes out a new loan on the house. The bank th...
Feds warn of top 5 mortgage scams
February 5, 2010
By: The Deseret News - UT
When given the opportunity, criminals will target whom they perceive as the weakest among us. And that notion could become even more apparent as Utah and the nation cope with the bursting of the real estate and economic bubbles
Housing Watch: Do Reverse Mortgages Help or Hurt Seniors?
February 2, 2010
By: Reverse Mortgage Daily
“No one wants grandma to suffer in her sunset years. So what if Johnnie gets a little less inheritance?” asks an AOL Housing Watch article on reverse mortgages. While there is very little in the article that a reverse mortgage loan officer might not know, the article generated plenty of comments fro... |
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