Still Think That The Housing Bubble Is The Fault Of The Buyers And Not The Lenders?
August 22nd, 2022 by MG
Magnus’ Mortgage Banker License Suspended By The Arizona Department of Financial Institutions
The Arizona Department of Financial Institutions (the “Department”) hereby finds that First Magnus Financial Corp. … have violated the provisions of the Arizona Revised Statutes (“A.R.S.”), Title 6 … Therefore, it is ordered to summarily suspend the Arizona mortgage banker licenses … This suspension is effective immediately.
But Why Was Their Banker License Suspended?
Great Southwest Mortgage, the retail arm of Magnus, hit hard for some of the following:
- Failed to conduct the minimum elements of reasonable employee investigations before hiring employees
- Failed to fully comply with the disclosure requirements of Title I of the Consumer Credit Protection Act
- Allowed borrowers to sign regulated documents containing blank spaces
- Originated and closed mortgage loans from two unlicensed locations
- Used unlawful appraisal disclosures
- A branch manager made false promises and misrepresentations or concealed an essential or material fact in the course of the mortgage banker business
Now think about those people you know who may be upside down on their houses and in a bind now that they can’t sell. Do you still think it was all their fault for buying into the dream these lenders sold them?
Looks to me like another case of billionaires and loans poor people can’t afford.
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My mom almost ended up going with GSWM but she was upset that all of her paperwork was being done by someone who was younger than her son.
I can’t believe these guys were allowed to do that for so long..
I’ve seen tons of college kids drop out for the ‘easy money’ several years back.
I wonder if they’re trying to re-entry into their programs now that things are crashing down.
Or of course, they could go into car sales:
https://www.blownmortgage.com/2007/07/21/where-are-all-of-the-loan-officers-going-hint-be-careful-at-the-dealerships/
Well everyone drops out for “easy money”.
People who want to “change the world” drop out after a bachlers degree so they can actually live life without having to study and be stuck in poverty.
Those students who did delay their studies to make a living are the smart ones.
They got to see how the “real world” operates and get out of student poverty for at least a few years.
These guys deserve to lose their license..
That’s just sick how they’re bending the rules to make more money.
Worse off is that I’ll end up picking up the tab come tax time no doubt.
This was on the news down here and my boyfriend and I were in shock that this seems to be the norm for lenders.
We’re renting until things slow down but now we’re still scared of getting ripped off.
This bubble _IS_ the buyer’s fault.
If their appetites weren’t bigger than their wallets this never would have happened.
I still don’t think the borrowers are NOT at fault, but you have to admit that when lenders aren’t being honest, the borrowers cannot be held liable for trusting them.
How is a buyer supposed to know about what a lender doesn’t disclose? There’s a limit to what we can expect buyers to know about going in.
Everything is disclosed.
Their is a very large piece of paper that shows how much your monthly payment will be every month for the life of your loan (15 years or 30 years or 45 years, etc).
And you get to keep a copy of that piece of paper and you have 3 whole days to cancel the deal if you want after signing your documents.
Everything is disclosed the idea that the lenders “hide” something is totally out of the question.
I find it hard to believe 1 person in the USA believes a word a salesperson says. We all know that we have to get it in writing.
In the mortgage business everything is in writing.
Everything is disclosed in writing.
If someone doesn’t read the documents then its their own fault for not reading the documents.
As a former Loan Officer I understand your sympathy with borrowers but I must tell you it is the Borrowers Fault 100%.
Let me give you my real life experience.
With 7 different home owners I told the client (the potential borrower) that I can not give them a loan because it would put them in serious jeopardy of financial.
On each occasion those clients called up my boss to complain about me.
Of course some other heartless loan officer had no problem taking the commission and putting them in financial ruin.
If someone is going to sign on the “dotted line” to make a house payment that is 75% of their monthly income i must say “they are asking for it”. And dont let anyone use that pathetic excuse “i didnt know what i was getting myself into”. That is total bull. Everyone knows that if your monthly income is $5,000 per month and your home loan expenses are $3,500 per month your going to be in financial ruin in no time.
This is just a business stop putting so much emotion into it.
The financial institutions made a ton of money, many loan officers in their 20s parties liked rock stars and are millionares, and many home owners made hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit from their home.
Those people are happy counting their money.
Its just everyone else who didnt make a dime or lost their home who are complaining.
I agree with you, but you also have to accept that for every person with your moral standing, there are at least 10 others who had car payments to make.
Having worked in real estate as an agent and as a service provider, I can count on one hand the agents I’d trust to represent me.
However I don’t have enough toes and fingers to count those that I wouldn’t.
Unfortunately, you are the exception here. I think we can both agree, as per your statement about the client’s comment to your manager, that if it isn’t the actual loan officer’s fault, blame at least lies in the culture that the loan officer is brought up in.
When a few thousand dollars lie on the dotted line, moral standing is purchased on the cheap.
Well if a dollar is on the line i have found peoples “high horse” seems to ride out of town.
But it just comes down to common sense for the borrower.
Obviously the sales person is in the business for the money; so I am not blaming them. The sales person is just trying to make a living or get ahead in life.
But customers should have known that buying a new big home with a $3500 mortgage while they only have a income of $5000 is the road to disaster.
But time and time again many people were more than happy to take that loan so they could get into “too much house”.
If a minimum wage person buys/leases a $50,000 Mercedes we can all (except the car sales person) agree he is making a catastrophic financial decision.
But for some reason when people were paying 65% their monthly income to their brand new mini-McMansion those borrowers were being applauded by everyone: the sales people (realtor, loan officer, broker, etc), their families, the community, etc.
When all is said and done we will have a new president in about a year and a half and i am assuming the first thing the new administration will do(regardless of political party) is bail out the home owners and the banks from the current lending mess.
Also BNC just closed down today.
And Countrywides Subprime division (Spectrum?) got shut down yesterday.
Waiting it out for Countrywide and IndyMac.
If they go out of biz that is very bad news for all home owners-home ownership will have gone backwards about 20 years.
Go checkout the NYT article about Countrywide today they might be headed out of business.
This is bad.
Expect a bailout.
If they go out of bizness then most consumers will not be able to get loans.
Great tip Noreel!
Here’s the link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/business/23mortgage.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Looks like they may need to buy back some loans, this should prove interesting!
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