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Second Mortgage Loans are traps for innocent borrowers.

Shared by Niicss on Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:32 am

Getting a personal loan becomes harder nowadays because of the financial crunch. Even credit card applications are being rejected. But loan which are secured against your property are in great demand and a bit easier to get approve. At the same time, these loans seem to have better rates. But these are actually traps for the innocent borrowers. According to the reports most of the borrowers who are taking the second mortgage already in financial crisis and end up with further debts.

But this is not always the case. People get in trap because they don’t assess their affordability properly. If the research a bit and check out their affordability then the number of defaulted borrowers will undoubtedly decrease.

By the way would like to have comments on it.

Source: http://business.scotsman.com/business/Second-loans-are-traps-for.4139708.jp
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:59 am    Post subject:

Hi Niicss.

I don't think that second mortgage is a trap for the borrowers. But as you have said they need to judge whether they can at all afford it or not. But the fact is they are already in debt related problems. So to pay off the credit card debts or student loans, they take out a equity loan. That is why money management is very much needed to avoid these problems. So once you are in this vicious circle, it seems very difficult to get out of it.

Best of luck,
Larry
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