Fraud sucks. Especially when you’re the patsy. This term is huge when it comes to protecting YOU in the homebuying process.
Appraisal fraud occurs when a house is overvalued by an appraiser in a fraudulent manner. So, if an appraiser comes to you with a bright idea of lying to the bank about how much a home is worth...likely with the intent of "allowing you" to get that $422,000 mortgage which you can't really afford...appraisal fraud is about to be committed.
And it happens in the other direction as well. YOU want your current home to be valued as LOW as possible because your taxes are 1.3% of its value each year and the lower the appraised price, well, the less you pay in taxes.
Often appraisal fraud is occurring under your radar. You might not know that the appraiser is doing anything wrong. After all, it might seem brilliant to mark up the price on your home when you refinance, or if you want to buy it and flip it. Any scheme to inflate numbers is shady. If you do it, the consequences often involve stripes. Vertical ones in a jail. Hope they are slimming on you.
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Finance: What is a Reverse Mortgage?6 Views
Finance allah shmoop What is a reverse mortgage All right
people let's start with a normal mortgage You put one
hundred grand down borrow three hundred grand and are the
proud new owner of this baby in palo alto california
You make payments for thirty years at five percent interest
and then you retire their debt free So that's a
mortgage but what's a reverse mortgage Like one of these
egg trump Well kind of at least financially the payments
go in the opposite direction of a normal mortgage Like
you're old you just want to live out your remaining
years with the basic comforts Shower seats stair lift high
absorption adult diapers You own all of your home No
mortgage on it You paid it all off The home
is now worth a million box Nice shoebox There you
can do a reverse mortgage pledging your home is an
asset and basically just receiving a payment of l say
five grand a month from that reverse mortgage and you'll
get to deduct interest costs as you go Justus if
it were a normal mortgage well after forty months you
you know croak in that time period you've taken out
Forty times five grand or two hundred grand in loans
plus some interest and you sell your home for a
cool million Rather your heirs dio So what happens now
Well they just take the million bucks from the sale
write a check for two hundred grand and change to
the bank to pay off the reverse mortgage that you
had accrued while you were you know wasting away to
nothing and your heirs end up happy like they miss
you But you know a free stair lift Who are 00:01:37.997 --> [endTime] you
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