if they can't pay their rent or face aggressive removal.  I know most of us landlords are not like this and in fact are willing to work with tenants who are impacted by the virus shutdowns, but the media will surely...

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It affects how banks borrow from the Fed.

Every hard money lender I know will lend to a first time borrower and hard money is not cash.

My understanding is/was that on Fannie Refis, the rate lock is essentially a lose-lose scenario for the borrower.  

As an SBA professional I wanted to make you all aware that the SBA has a long standing policy to allow for loan deferments to handle temporary cash flow disruptions, which the Covid19 event qualifies as.This pertains to all borrowers who have an existing SBA 7a, 504 or Microloan.Loan deferment can be done unilaterally by your lender.

Taking a loan against your self does not affect your DTI ratio because of the fact that you are borrowing against what is yours.

I'm assuming its really the interest rates borrowed from bank to bank?

It will raise the value of your home and allow you to ultimately borrow more.

As you know the Banks learned this the hard way it took them a few years but once they realized what the realities were you saw all sorts of mitigation plans borrowers could use so they could keep their properties.