There has been a great deal of interesting discussion lately of the possibility of the economy being in a recession currently, or soon sliding into one. The causes are primarily seen as a drying up of credit and the toxicity of subprime loans floating all through the industry. Combined having a weakening dollar pushing up the cost of several goods, imported and exported, in addition to big increases in the price of oil and gold, homeowners are going into a winter season with absolutely nothing but the expectation of rising expenses, through a resetting mortgage, higher transportation fees, and higher home heating bills. Such arguing and discussing of these larger problems misses the truth that a lot of homeowners are facing foreclosure for the same factors as they always have, but they now have no spare resources to use to save their properties. This does not mean they’ll lose their properties to foreclosure, but they’ll need to trust much more in their very own abilities than in any other source of help.

In a easy model with the economy, households use their income for consumption, tax payments to the government, and private savings. The government also spends the money that it receives from tax payments or simply borrows or prints money in order to invest it. In the present economic climate, although, exactly where costs are declining in some sectors (the housing market becoming essentially the most obvious example), the supply of cash available to households seems to be shrinking even as the government prints far more than it has ever completed within the past.

Probably the most pernicious aspects of the housing boom was that a lot of experts, on a lot of levels, took advantage of the ignorance of the average American in regards to all things financial. From the local mortgage broker and appraiser towards the largest Wall Street firms, it seems everybody played some role in making use of the government’s manipulation of the market to their own benefit.

My husband left active duty military and went back to the reserves. We took a 3,000 dollar a month paycut and are having trouble making our mortgage payments. We’ve had the house for 2 years and it’s a VA loan. Are there any mortgage payment assistant programs to people like us here in Colorado? We are trying to avoid foreclosure at all costs. If we could get help with the payments until it sells (houses aren’t selling in our neighborhood right now) we could avoid a big headache for us in the future. Anywhere we can turn to?

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My husband and I are divorcing. I am staying in the house, however, my husband will not contribute to the house payment. I cannot afford the payment on my income alone. We owe much more than the house is worth. Will the new “Home Affordable” program work for me, since I can afford 31% of my gross income? Or, will it be figured on 31% of BOTH of our incomes, since both names are on the loan?

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