Take a minute to read this... You're going to see how the government’s moratoriums and loss mitigation programs have affected foreclosures and shadow inventory.
Shadow inventory is made up of all the properties that are in foreclosure or headed toward foreclosure that haven’t hit the market yet. There are 7 million homes in this shadow inventory category. What the government isn’t telling you is that their moratoriums and loss mitigation programs created a huge surge of foreclosures that are about to pop. Their effort to decrease foreclosures has backfired. According to the National Association of Realtors, there were 3.6 Million unsold homes in September. You think there are a lot of homes on the market now? There are 7 Million more coming that the government has created in this shadow foreclosure inventory. That’s 2 times the amount of homes that are currently on the market now! The government’s Making Home Affordable (MHA) modification program and FHA’s Hope for Homeowners refinance program DO NOT WORK for borrowers that are too wealthy or owe too much on their homes. The number of foreclosures for high end and luxury homes in increasing and there are a ton of luxury homes in this shadow inventory. So what does all of this mean to you as a real estate investor? opportunit*y, a lot of opportunit*y to help high-end homeowners by offering them a short sale while making a killing in the process. So when can we expect to see the surge in foreclosures from this shadow inventory? We are in the first phase of shadow inventory right now. The second wave will start in Mid-2010 and will continue into 2011 because the national foreclosure moratoriums ended in March and the government intensified its HOPE NOW Alliance program as well as its Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). These programs were released in the first week of March but the problem was that the servicers and lenders did not receive training until the middle of June. Then, the programs had to be updated because they weren’t effective and they became more complicated to implement effectively. This created a huge amount of people that have not paid their mortgage and their houses have not been taken back by the lenders yet. Basically the government only delayed the inevitable foreclosure process but they made it worse because all of the homes will be entering foreclosure at the same time and with more debt owed on the mortgages. This is the ultimate short sale environment. These homes are ripe for the picking. Many of these homeowners have thrown their hands up and have vacated the houses. These vacant houses are gold for you as a real estate investor. The third phase of shadow inventory will be borrowers that have exhausted their options on long term government sponsored payment plans, forbearances, and failed modifications. These will show up in 2011 and continue into 2012 as their foreclosure timelines were delayed or reset by the latest HAMP efforts. As you can see, the biggest mass of foreclosures hasn’t even hit us yet! You owe it to yourself and your family to attend this week’s webinar on Wednesday night, Feb 10th at 9pm ET so you will know exactly how to take advantage of this huge wave of foreclosures coming in the next 2 years. Register here while we still have some seats available: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/546702424 Talk to you Wed night, John St. Pierre Director of The Short Sale Academy 156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1234 New York, NY 10010 [email protected] http://app.streamsend.com/private/w4D0/NeX/jvBtyl7/unsubscribe/8776821 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
