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How is a sub-prime mortgage different from a regular mortgage?

A sub-prime mortgage is given to individuals who don't qualify with their employment record, their income, their earnings to be qualified for the prime rate. So, in many cases the small business person has no earnings, they somehow live, they don't necessarily pay taxes, and when they try to qualify for a mortgage, the bank laughs because you have no income. So the sub-prime was set up basically for those people that couldn't prove that they could pay a mortgage but many other people who don't have any earnings, don't have any income were also included, and that was a mistake. I'm Carl Person. I'm a New York lawyer and my job is to help people stay in their homes.

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How does a sub-prime loan work?

A sub-prime loan works like this. If your credit score is less than pristine, you're going to be put in a loan with a higher interest rate, and that higher interest rate is because of the risk that the lender is taking and taking someone who has less than pristine credit and putting them and insuring them or giving them this mortgage rather. But what we've seen a lot of here in California is the homeowner that has a good credit score put in these sub-prime mortgages and loans, and that is because lenders make money when they put people in a sub-prime product. I'm Vincent Howard, Senior and Managing Partner of Howard Nassiri. We work hard everyday representing the consumer from our headquarters in Orange County, California. If you need an attorney you can trust, go ahead and give us a call.

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Are sub-prime mortgages eligible for a loan modification?

Subprime mortgages are the ones that basically are being forclosed, and they, yes they are as eligible if not more eligible because in many cases the borrower really did qualify for a lower rate and they gave them a higher rate in order to pay a mortgage broker who looked around for the bank that would give the mortgage broker the most money and the bank then tacked it on and charged a higher rate than the bank should have. I'm Carl Person, a New York lawyer, and a fighter to keep people in their homes.

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Why is Southern California so hard hit by predatory lending?

California is a victim of this sub-prime crisis for a number of reasons. One, it's Southern California. A lot of people want to move here, buy homes here. [Ah] The homes that people buy here rise in value, or they did up until recently. ah and then what you have is a large number of California residents who were employed in the mortgage industry. California had upwards of 300,000 people employed in this industry. Lenders noticed that, and they wanted to take advantage of that. So they pushed their brokers, even lenders directly, pushed them into pushing people into sub-prime products, and that lead to the economic crisis that we're suffering now. I'm Vincent Howard, senior and managing partner of Howard | Nassiri. We work hard everyday representing the consumer from our headquarters in Orange County, California. If you need an attorney you can trust, go ahead and give us a call.

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What are the top 3 predatory lending violations?

The top three predatory lending violations that we usually see are loans that have negative amortization that wasn't properly disclosed to the home owner. One of the other things that we see a lot of is someone who has a really good credit score, who should qualify for a better loan, but are actually put into a sub-prime loan and that's because lenders make more money when they put more people in sub-prime loans. And then the other thing that we see a lot of is people who were presented with a teaser rate and the interest rate bait-and-switch deal where people thought they were getting on interest rate, but they were actually getting another. I'm Vincent Howard, senior and managing partner of Howard/Nassiri. We work hard every day representing the consumer from our headquarters in Orange County, California. If you need an attorney you can trust, go ahead and give us a call.

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Is predatory lending a growing problem?

Predatory lending is a growing problem in California, it really is. California, along with Nevada and Florida, were some of the hardest hit states in our union. Here in southern California in particular, my partner and myself often refer to it as ground zero because so many predatory loans, sub-prime type loans, were originated right here in southern California. I'm Vincent Howard, senior and managing partner of Howard-Nassiri. We work hard every day representing the consumer from our headquarters in Orange County, California. If you need an attorney you can trust, go ahead and give us a call.

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attorney: Howard | Nassiri, LLP