Posted
12/05/2007 05:41:00 PM
by Douglas
Man, I wish the government would determine
my mortgage rate was too
high.The Bush administration has hammered out an agreement with industry to freeze interest rates for certain subprime mortgages for five years in an effort to combat a soaring tide of foreclosures, congressional aides said Wednesday.
Another person familiar with the matter said the rate-freeze plan would apply to borrowers with loans made at the start of 2005 through July 30 of this year with rates that are scheduled to rise between Jan. 1, 2008, and July 31, 2010.
So the fuck what?!? These legally binding contracts were made between two (or more) willing participants. The borrower accepted the teaser rate, and the lender had to have accepted the risk of them not being able to pay it back, just like
every lender has done on
every loan since the dawn of fucking time. Why change the rules now?
So what's the trick? How many payments do I have to miss before they lower my rate to keep me from defaulting?