Mohamed Ibrahim’s Blog

News have been everywhere today that mortgage defaults are even higher than before. Foreclosure rates are increasing, because home owners give up even before their adjustable mortgage resets. Worse, two days ago a very known investor (Warren Buffet) became the most wealthy person, said that as far as he’s concerned we are already in a recession.

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Secured loans (aka mortgages) are long term loans - however from my point of view they are loans. Loans are liabilities on you, since you not only has to repay the debt but also pay interest for borrowing the money. You might see lots of ads around for systems that consolidate loans, eradicate loans, eliminate loans. There’s no magic behind those systems. If you research them on the internet you’ll find a big common fact: you have to use the same income you have now.

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I’ve been reading more lately about financing. I mean the core of money, where it comes from and how it gets killed, not just real estate financing. I’m surprised by a lot of what I read, and actually hope that others take the time and understand the pillars of our economy in order to know how to plan for his or her future.

I watched some videos on Google video: Money As Debt , Money banking and the federal reserve . Although sometimes those videos generalize their talk, yet after doing some research I found that a lot of it is actually true. The fact is we are dealing with non-existent money.

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What is the homestead tax credit?

Exactly like it sounds, it’s a credit you get back. Why would the state do so? In my opinion, they’re trying to limit the speed by which tax assessments are growing relative to the speed by which home prices grew in the past five years, resulting in higher tax rate for residents. It is mainly targeted to benefit home owners who live in those residents.

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I found a flyer today in my mail box from empire financial titled NO PAYMENTS FOR 6 MONTHS. The flyer read ‘Move your buyers into their dream home without making a mortgage payment for up to the first six months with the buyers’ Bonus Mortgage Program’.

I think it is good that many finance companies are trying to make the secured loan market more innovative. Sometimes to complete sales one is required to keep all those type of programs in the back of his head, although I’m not seeking financing myself - yet my buyers are, and sometimes I need just to point them out to some loan programs that I might know, and they don’t.

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