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St. Louis Real Estate - Mortgage News - Downpayment Assistance

http://www.stlouisrealestatevoice.com Posted by doug63026 867 days ago

For the past few years, FHA has allowed charitable non-interested parties to supply the down payment to a borrower on FHA loans. Unfortunately, this practice caused housing prices to be inflated as the seller would raise their price and then contribute the increase to the charity as a donation. The charity would then give a gift to the borrower and thus have the down payment for a home with an FHA mortgage. The challenge is that the borrower had no vested interest in the house and when times got tough it was easy for them to walk away since they would be losing nothing other than a home with an inflated price. Selling the home was difficult in a flat or declining real estate market. This practice is one of the logs on the bonfire of the mortgage industry that is burning across our nation.

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