The Double Comma Club

The Double Comma Club


Your Questions Answered Forbearance, Rates, Fannie and Freddie

March 28, 2020

This episode followed the first portion of the new Agent Ignite Coffee Talk series on Friday mornings. This week questions poured in including these topics:Forbearance, Unemployment claims, HELOC rates, FHA loans, investor rates, furloughed limitations in qualifying, COVID-19 addendums, rate locks, jumbo loans. Listen to this episode of The Double Comma Club.You can get more information about joining in here. Coffee Talk:   https://fairwaymc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5xzg3jN3SDiM8mHV4FNQ0wAgent Ignite:  https://theruethteam.com/Agent-IgniteDo you actually read faster than Nicole can speak? Even after three cups of coffee? Then read the transcript below:Cara: We definitely have a few questions, so the first one that came through was, Are there any negative ramifications to forbearance on credit scores and different things like that?"Nicole Rueth: Fantastic question. Okay, so Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said "no" right out of the gate. The government didn't, so it was actually up to the servicer. It was strongly recommended, but not required, and that's changing. With this stimulus bill, one of the things that they're saying in there is that that has to be honored and the credit won't get destroyed or there won't be any negative lates.Remember, they're going to have to catch up and there will probably be some foreclosures because of this, but whatever mortgage payments were missed are just going to be tacked onto the end. Most people don't make a full 30 years of payments, so that balance due will be paid when a refinance happens or a sale, but that's just going to be tacked onto the end and have to be made up. If you think of, especially those who are the majority of our FHA borrowers, they are entry-level homes.We have this increasing population that's coming in that wants those entry-level homes. I'm not worried about that supply coming into the market and even it really depressing our appreciating values at all.Cara: Then, do you think investors that are not receiving rental income will need to sell those properties?Nicole Rueth:  I love that question because I think, as an investor, I'm looking for two opportunities right now. Because, remember, as mortgage holders, so as a homeowner, I can go through forbearance and I can stop making my mortgage payment. The same applies to that, it was stated, you cannot evict during this time. Landlords have to be ... I don't want to say kind to their tenants. I'm always kind to my tenants, but we have to be understanding; you're not going to evict somebody in what's going on right now.Some people, I guess, would, and so they're mandating that you can't evict them. The same thing's going to happen. You're either going to have to have that tenant catch up or, once this is over, you're going to be able to evict them. There are investors who have done well over the last eight years. It's my expectation, and there are no numbers that qualify what I'm saying, it's simply my being in the market and what I think is going to happen.If I was an investor, and say I was 65 or 70 years old and I had all these investments, I might just take my chips off the table now. I might just say, "I had a great eight years, I've got a tenant who's not paying or maybe we just came out of this." There are hungry investors who will buy that investment, who have a little bit of money reserved and they know, if they can just hold on for the next two to four months, maybe six, then they're going to have an appreciating asset and inventory that they didn't have before, so the buyers will come in.I don't think it's going to be a fire sale. I think you're going to pay fair market value, but I think that there's going to be investors. There were at least some of their inventory during this time. The other opportunity I see is in commercial space. I think that there's going to be some commercial buildings, regretfully, because of businesses in the next six months.Cara: Yep, definitely. Then this next question was