Buck
03-05-2009, 07:54 AM
"The new product is a loan modification. When borrowers are unable to pay their monthly mortgage bills, a frequent occurrence in this era of self-destructing subprime loans, loan modifications allow the borrowers to renegotiate the terms of their mortgages. They pay a lower monthly charge and keep their houses, and the broker earns a paycheck for arranging the new deal."
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"Unfortunately for the borrower, however, is that the remaining debt doesn't vanish. Those unpaid tens of thousands are waiting there to be reckoned with down the road, plus years of additional interest. "Isn't that predatory lending?" gasps one of the attendees at the Hyatt. Vondran and Brodetsky change the subject."
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/130161/predatory_lending_with_a_smiley_face/
(snip)
"Unfortunately for the borrower, however, is that the remaining debt doesn't vanish. Those unpaid tens of thousands are waiting there to be reckoned with down the road, plus years of additional interest. "Isn't that predatory lending?" gasps one of the attendees at the Hyatt. Vondran and Brodetsky change the subject."
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/130161/predatory_lending_with_a_smiley_face/