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The March edition covers preforeclosure investing — it was the final installment of a three-part series that went back to January 2008.

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Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, today revealed during a televised speech that the foreclosures and mortgage defaults will continue to climb “for a while longer,” according to a Yahoo!News.com article.

Bernanke called on lenders and servicers to do more to help distressed homeowners avoid foreclosure, suggesting that the financial institutions consider reducing individual loan amounts.

Here’s a snip:

“Although lenders and servicers have scaled up their efforts and adopted a wider variety of loss-mitigation techniques, more can, and should be, done…. Principal reductions that restore some equity for the homeowner may be a relatively more effective means of avoiding delinquency and foreclosure.”

It’s a plan that Beranke himself admits might not go over too well with lenders. In fact, he reveals that the lenders feel a move like this, in the long-run, could become something of a slippery slope with them writing down mortgages over and over if homes prices continue to slide.

Unfortunately, when housing prices fall it opens up the possibility that some homeowners will become “upside down” or “under water” with their homes, meaning they owe their lenders more money than the homes are actually worth.

That’s bad news according to Beranke, who feels that with no home equity to tap it will give distressed homeowners less financial incentive to try to remain in the home.

Already, the Bush administration has attempted to stunt the number of foreclosures with rate freezes on adjustable loans. However, that alone appears not to be enough.

Only time will tell, unfortunately, how this entire situation plays out. But if Beranke is correct, and more foreclosures are headed for the open market, then it’s best to keep your eyes peeled.

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Joe Lents of Boca Raton, Fla., apparently requested proof from Washington Mutual Inc. — the lending institution that claimed to own the promissory note to his home — that it was indeed the rightful mortgage owner when foreclosure proceedings were initiated.

Washington Mutual Inc. couldn’t come up with the proper paperwork, and Joe has been living in his $1.5 million home since 2002 without making a single mortgage payment, according to Tampa Bay Online.

Here’s a snip from Joe:

“If you’re going to take my house away from me, you better own the note.”

Apparently, short cuts when large “bundles” of mortgages were bought and sold from 2003 to 2006 resulted in more than a few clerical errors — the assignment of ownership wasn’t always properly completed.

And when the original lender no longer exists — more than 100 mortgage companies ceased operations in 2007 alone — unlucky homeowners can all of a sudden find themselves in very lucky situations.

Just ask Joe.

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