President Bush wants Congress to act fast on pending legislation that would give homeowners more options for refinancing their home loans. profitable adviser Ed Gillespie told reporters Bush wants Congress to act faster to “help construct the market more regular.”

While some support that legislation, others think that those in trouble have made their own beds and now they must lie in them. Even so, many humans who didn’t manufacture any mistake and have fixed-rate loans are still feeling the pain as home prices continue to fall. Anything that can be done to help homeowners avoid foreclosure and stay in their homes will help everyone. Fewer homes will end up on the market at

fire sale prices and the market will start to stabilize.

What legislation does Bush want to pass? There are three key pieces:

• manufacture it easier for low-income homeowners to refinance adjustable-rate mortgages through the Federal Housing Administration. Of course, for that to work pre-payment penalties on those ARMs would have to be outlawed. Many of the ARMs set to jump 2% to 3% have prepayment penalties of $12,000 or more and home values lower than the mortgage amount due.

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