2581 ANNAPOLIS St East Palo Alto, CA 94303 – This is how you use your house as an ATM

2581 ANNAPOLIS St East Palo Alto, CA 94303

Price: $180,500
Beds: 4
Baths: 1
Sq. Ft.: 1,070
$/Sq. Ft.: $169
Lot Size: 5,500 Sq. Ft.

Last sale: Jun 16, 2009 Sold $573,732 (This is a bank take back)
Last REAL sale: Nov 10, 1999 Sold $270,000

I found the mortgage history of this home on PropertyShark, and it is quite interesting.  First the homedebtor bought the house in 1999 with two loans from Bank of America:

Lender #1 Bank Of America
Loan amount #1 $215,000
Loan type #1 Conventional
Rate type #1 Fixed
Loan amount #2 $55,000

Notice that the two loans add up to the purchase price. So great, this guy is buying the home for 0 down, but at least it is a fixed loan. Now he lived in it for  a bit over 3 years before doing another refi.  This time it is a cash out refinance because the amount borrowed is $300k.  This time it is from Indymac:

Lender #1 Indymac Bank FSB
Loan amount #1 $300,000
Loan type #1 Conventional
Rate type #1 Variable

Notice that now it is an adjustable loan. A year and a half later there was another cash out  refi in June 2004:

Lender #1 New Century Mortgage
Loan amount #1 $330,000
Loan type #1 Conventional
Rate type #1 Variable

So basically he took another $30k out, but wait, it’s not over! Another 16 months later, he did another HUGE cash out refinance:

Lender #1 Option One Mortgage Corp
Loan amount #1 $572,000
Rate type #1 Variable

Yup, in this final refinance he took out another $242k.  Then finally the home was foreclosed this year.  So at least he enjoyed the house atm for almost 10 years and took out over $300k.  Here is the funny part, all the banks he dealt with are dead except for Bank of America.  I guess  it sort of makes sense, too.  I don’t think this guy lost much since the money he took out was tax free and he didn’t really have any equity in the house anyway.  The last bank definitely lost the most on this series of refinances, but I guess they have ” imploded”.

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One Response to “2581 ANNAPOLIS St East Palo Alto, CA 94303 – This is how you use your house as an ATM”

  1. Sev on September 16th, 2009 6:14 am

    People who did this should be held to their debt, wages garnished and taxed to high heaven.
    Oh wait, the PRODUCTIVE SAVERS are going to be the ones who end up bailing them out.

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