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Deaton Investment Real Estate & The Wake County Apartment Association



Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Should Foreclosures Be Rented? Should the Government Have a Say?

A clip from an interesting article/blog post on the WSJ Online below, link to full article here.

"The Journal writes today that one idea gaining support in Washington is an effort to pull some of those properties off the market and rent them out, either on homes owned by federal agencies or loan giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

These firms and U.S. banks currently own more than 500,000 foreclosed homes, and there’s another 2 million loans in some stage of foreclosure. The high share of distressed sales in many struggling markets is contributing to continued declines in home prices.

“Can we find a way to try and reduce that overhang or to try to provide incentives for investors to covert them?” said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in testimony to Congress last week.

Critics worry about the risk of the government as landlord. One solution: sell federally backed foreclosures to investors who would have to agree to rent them out for a to-be-determined period of time. Investors would rehab the properties, fill them with tenants, and hire a national property management firm to oversee the day-to-day landlord needs."

Friday, July 1, 2011

Happy Fourth of July! No WCAA meeting in July.

There will be no meeting of the Wake County Apartment Association in July. I wish everyone a blessed 4th of July. God bless the men and women have and continue to sacrifice for the United States of America.