MORTGAGE UNDER WATER: SHORTSALE OR FORECLOSE? OR REFINANCE?

How do you transfer your house under another family member’s name in order to refinance it?

My sister owns a house. The house is in Arizona, but she lives in New York. She’s stuck in a CRAPPY ‘interest-only loan’, and our mortgage is underwater. Now they said that she can’t re-finance it because it’s an investment property, and the person must live in the house to refinance it.

I’m her younger brother and I’m about to get married. Me and my fiance are looking for a place to live. So we were thinking of moving into her house, and then refinancing it.

So would she have to ‘sell us’ the house? Gift it to us? can she just add one of our names to the mortgage? and then when we move in, it’ll be considered ‘owner-occupied’, so we can refinance it?

thanks for your help guys!


We need to upgrade our house, could we finance it?

My husband and I would like to upgrade to a bigger house but keep the current one that we live in as an investment property. We already have a investment property to which we financed with a 20% deposit using a line of credit on our home. We have an interest only loan for the remaining 80%. Could we take out a line of credit to finance a 20% deposit (for a larger home) on our investment property , and mortgage the remaining 80% whilst renting out our current home as our current home is currently a Principle and interest loan and we have nearly finished paying it off.


Best Homeloans?

Hi Just Wondering if anyone knows of any good mortgage brokers i have neva had credit and I’m only 23 Also wondering if any of u guys would know any good websites to go on to find investment property’s


Would this be a good idea for investments?

Joe has a unit worth 0,000 and still owes 0,000 on the property and I have 0,000 to invest. At the moment Joe is having financial difficulty and has lowered his payment to 0 per week on his mortgage. Would it be a good idea if I paid his mortgage and he pays me 0 a week and he keeps for his own savings. That would be more than I would get in interest in the bank and he could save money but still keep his investment.


Would this be a good way to get into property investment?

Story:
Have seen a few properties for sale at between 0,000 and 0,000 in regional Victoria which claim to have a past rental price of 0. Current tennant etc etc.

After doing a few quick searches I found out that according to the latest figures, regional victoria is growing at a faster rate (1.9% growth compared to .9 for melb from memory). One important thing I did read was that unoccupied rental properties were scarcer in regional vic. Higher demand in regional areas.

My Idea:
Save ,000 a year for 4 years T = 0,000 (easily do-able)

Take 0,000 and buy one house outright so there would be no martgage. At the same time, buy another house with finance (0,000 loan). Then rent both houses out for roughly 0 pw each.

According to basic online repayment calulators, repayments on a 0,000 10 year loan at about 9% would be roughly around 0. So rent from both properties would cover repayments.

Then just wait and let other people pay the mortgage and after 10 years I end up with 2 houses for the prices of 1.

Does this all seem do-able?

And yes i realise that there will be times when they are vacant and not bringing in rent, but since I wont personally be paying any mortgage I still will have disposable income and so will be able to cover repayments during tougher times.

There must be a lot that I missing as this all seems quite easy. Seems to me like a good way to get your foot in door.

Can someone bring me down to reality?

Thanks in advance
Obviously its not 0 a month…. its 0 a week. Though u might have picked that up when I said I’d get 0 PER WEEK rent from both houses.
and since I will (after the first 4 years) go back to saving ,000 a year I should have no troubles covering insurance and taxes, and times of vacancy etcetc…
bull –

I dont mean 00 a month…i mean 0 per week (0 per month). So both together 0 per week (00 per month).


Autralian VIC laws regarding property before marriage?

Hi Frds

I am a female and am totally independent till date. I have signed a building contract in sep2009 and my house construction is still going on.I have invested apprx k already in this construction all alone.I got married 10 days ago and it was like arranged marriage.My hubby will join me soon in 2-3 months.I am having fears in mind regarding my property and investments i have done all alone in Victoria. I don’t wanna share any part of it with my hubby b’coz it’s my hard earned savings and my efforts.I have got this before marriage so if something happens in future between us( hopefully not) but u never know.What will happen to my house? My husband had no contribution in that.Mortgage is also under my name and my car etc? Please kindly advice?????

As there is no guarantee for relationships these days.

Regards.


how long does it take to transfer mortgage title and or loans from one party to the other?

my husband and I have in our names a residential and an investment property, my husband wants to transfer his interest in my name only. Is it possible to transfer the title of mortgages only but have loans in joint names.


Investment Property Query?

‘A’ has a mortgage in Sydney. ‘B’ has a mortgage in Sydney. Can A rent his property to B and vice versa to take maximum advantage of negative gearing? Are there any risks involved? IS this illegal or would they simply be working the system legally?


Investments – Property or managed fund? or put extra $100 wk into mortgage. Have $28000 equity in home.?

I am the wife! Own our own business – doing well, have other stable income to fall back on if needed. both 30ish 3 dependants, I’m keen to have a go – not be too conservative, probably middle road risk.


how does investment work? could someone please explain?

This might sound silly to a lot of people, but i dont understand how you can buy shares and then make money from it. the same with investing in property? whats the point of that? the way i see it, you take out a home loan, buy a house with it, lease the house to tenants and then the mortgage gets paid off, then, you sell the house and yes, you make a profit from that, but wouldn’t it take like, 20 – 30 years for the house to get paid off through leasing it? Am i missing something?