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Defaulted mortgages create a backlash whose effects are felt by not only the lenders, but the economy as a whole suffers as well.  A bank’s ability to borrow is negatively effected by around 900% when a mortgage defaults.  Let’s say the defaulted amount of the asset is just %100,000 - in that case the bank is blocked from borrowing up to $900,000 until the property is assumed by someone else.  As a property loses its value, the only option banks have is to record the adjusted value and take the financial hit.

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There are few solutions available to lenders that relieve the brunt non-performing assets put on their registers.  Foreclosure is almost always the last action banks take.  High legal expenses are the beginning of this costly process that lenders face.  REO (Real Estate Owned) properties also incur pervasive property management headaches until they are unloaded.  There is the concern that damage to REO properties, while they sit vacant, increases and further hurts the chances of any real profits.  When selling any property there are expenses - from marketing to transactions that accompany selling real estate.

Furthermore, lenders mus face the problem of staffing.  Still, if a mortgage lender thinks foreclosure is teh only reasonable option, it is faced with the daunting task of finding enough staff to oversee and unload REO’s, especially bulk REO’s.  Since about 1994 there hasn’t been this kind of lending crisis in which REO experts have been axed at jaw dropping proportions.  On top of this, the United States has few in-house experts at any of the larger lending institutions who can handle bulk REO’s which need someone to manage them, secure them and sell them with minimal loss.

Without a doubt, today’s servicing agencies and mortgage companies seem to singlemindedly be in agreement to unload troubled loans as quickly as possible even if it means selling at a loss.

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