2nd mortgage BANKs now to be BAILED OUT!!!

[Account Closed]

Mr Mortgage:

"Added last minute to the underwater refi, Fannie/Freddie, FHA, Wall St, Foreign Gov’t, Washington DC, bank and investment bank bailout was a ‘2nd lien provision’ making the 2nd mortgage holder an equity partner in your home as well.One thing is for sure, that just the fact that this 700 page bailout bill talks about second mortgages, it was added last minute and they are one of the bank’s largest risks, points to trouble."

Of Note:

A few months back banks began to freeze consumers out of accessing the available credit on the Home Equity Lines. Countrywide kicked if off by freezing 122,000 in one swoop and WAMU follow-up shortly thereafter with a 50,000 line freeze.

Our nations largest banks are being weighed down by 2nd mortgage liens (Home Equity Lines/Loans or HELOCs). You have heard this in many of their earnings calls recently. The home equity market is thought to be as large as $1.3 trillion

For many banks this is their largest residential mortgage exposure. For example, Wells Fargo still carries $84 billion and Bank of America and Chase about $100 billion a piece. The banks were very touchy in their recent earnings reports on this topic. Wells Fargo actually changed the definition of ‘default’ from 120 days to 180 days to push out defaults further consequently hiding losses. See my report on Wells Fargo’s mystery earnings.

Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Mr Mortgage

Fresh news out…S&P pulled a slick one. They STOPPED rating second mortgage RMBS citing “anamolous and unprecedented” borrower behavior. Here is a little piece from Bloomberg that enhances the previous story very well, calling all Home Equity loans ‘junk’.