By Gen Wright
A quit claim deed is a document that provides for complete revoking of a property by a person. When the quit claim deed in signed, the person is essentially giving up all claims on the property in question and is transferring it to another person. For the quit claim deed to be fruitful and effective, the person signing the quit claim deed on the property must own the property in the first place. Hence, signing a quit claim deed will be ineffective if you are not in direct ownership of the property.
The signing of a quit claim deed should not be taken lightly and an expert lawyer should always be consulted before any such document is signed. This is because a quit claim deed is non-reversible and unless the other person (to whom the claim went) signs a similar transfer to you, the property will be out of your hands forever.
A quit claim deed should only be used when the owner of the property wants to relinquish all claims to the property, including any ownership and financial claims. However, contrary to the popular belief, signing a quit claim deed cannot get you out of mortgage claims. This is potentially a dangerous situation where you might lose both ways. If you are part of a note that makes you liable to paying the mortgage on the property, you cannot get out the of paying the mortgage by signing the quit claim deed. If there are other people in joint ownership with you, they should get the loan refinanced in their name, excluding you completely. Or else, you might end up in a situation where you are liable for paying the mortgage but you will not have any rights over the property you are paying for.
If you want to gift a part of your property to your partner or friend, you can do so by setting up a living trust. The living trust is a much more flexible than a quit claims deed. Once a quit claims deed is executed legally, you will have no rights over the part of the property that you will be giving away.
A quit claim deed should only be filed when you are sure that you want the property to be completely handed over to another person without any conditions whatsoever. The signing of a quit claims deed needs to be done in a fully legal manner and only after proper counsel. The quit claim deed needs to be signed by the owner of the property first. Then for it to stand as a binding document, there should be witnesses to the entire proceeding. The receiving party will need to counter-sign the deed. The deed then will need to be notarized at a local office that holds the power to notarize the deed.
Once all this is done, the transfer will be final and binding. It is very hard to change the situation and hence this deed is highly permanent in nature.
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The Loan Program for the Next Housing Bubble
By Roberto Garabell
Lending during the Great Housing Bubble was too messy. There were too many loan programs. Since real estate always goes up, and since people want immediate access to this appreciation to spend it like income, a new loan product which readily provides this money is in order. The Option ARM was a major innovation. By allowing for negative amortization, people were able to add to their loan balance and effectively “cash out” their equity. The problem with this loan program is that it didn’t go far enough, people still had to make payments, and they had to get HELOCs to extract the remainder.
The new loan program is called the “Pay You” loan, or PU for short. The PU loan has no payment of any kind. The total amount of interest each month is added to the loan balance. Further, appreciation in excess of this monthly interest is sent to the borrower each month. Rather than pay for an updated appraisal each month to determine value, an automated reappraisal system which looks at the current pricing of comps can accurately determine the current market value. Since homes now pay cash to owners each month, home ownership would be very desirable, and home prices should rise steadily far in excess of the monthly interest cost. With automated appraisals, little additional servicing costs would be required. Also, lenders would find the monthly service fees an attractive feature, so they would readily peddle the PU loan to any borrower who wanted it, and since borrowers are actually being paid to own their home, everyone would want to enroll in the program.
These loan programs would be very attractive to investors because the interest income would be booked as profits, and since the balance is growing each month, the interest income gets compounded. The main problems investors in mortgage loans have is that borrowers often pay back these loans early, and the balanced decline over time. Therefore, they do not receive the rate of return reflective of the stated interest rate. With the PU loan, investors actually get a greater return due to the compounding effect. The early payback is not a problem because even if a borrower sells a home, they will quickly buy a new one to get back on the home appreciation gravy train. The PU loans may even allow for assumability and portability so the loan doesn’t need to be closed out when a buyer wants to move up or sells. It is a panacea.
Now we just need home prices to always go up…
Lawrence Roberts is the author of The Great Housing Bubble: Why Did House Prices Fall?
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REO Properties Are Flooding The Real Estate Market
By Jamie Hanson
Real estate properties are owned by banks. It couldn’t be sold at auction. REO (real estate owned) possession, come into existence when the bank or the lender fail to get the amount due to them during auction and consequently own the property. In the process they build up their inventory until they find a buyer to sell it.|Bank builds up inventory. Then finds a buyer}
This record does not yield any financial help and thus becomes a trouble to them. This property is nonperforming loan. The foreclosure property goes through a bidding method when placed for auction. Bid amount is the outstanding loan amount If the bid does not fetch a higher price, the lender takes away the property and then the property becomes real estate hold (REO).
Investors come at this point They go after these properties as banks are not in the selling of owning properties. And in some incidents the property can be bought at a lesser price than the current market value. Recently, with the global financial recession and with many people losing their jobs, real estate foreclosure has become a large headache to the banks.. Public are unable to pay their dues to the banks. Consequently, bank forecloses the mortgaged amount and goes for auction. But they are not forever successful. Banks are anxious. They want to sell the REO.
If you are a real estate financer you can successfully income from buying these assets form the banks. You should have good relation with lenders. It brings you success and confidence Investors can buy these owned properties at a lesser price and sell them at a price appropriate to them in due course. Investors are afraid to sell at a lower price. Buyers are difficult to get. It is the latest trend in the investors market. Investors buy at a lower price. This is believed by many people But really it is not a fact. Banks buy in bulk. They buy in wholesale price.They make profit, also. A good investor always waits for the foreclosure property to relapse to the lender.
If a customer goes to the bank directly he has to face innumerable formalities.. There you make an offer, a counter offer and a re-offer and so on, which may take weeks to occur. Therefore, the more plausible way is to buy the real estate property from a private investor holding properties he bought from the bank.|Buy the property form private investor. He buys from the bank}
Whether you buy a real estate property from a bank or a lender you should work with such person who has a sound information and understanding of the type of REO business.
What are REO Properties? Find out more at http://www.reohud.org
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