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Every day the news headlines seem to set a different tone for this market. Credit “issues” persist, but the Fed is cutting rates, mortgage applications are at a 2 1/2 year high, and then more banks are closing, cutting jobs, or just cutting off access to their money. One day its up, one day its down. Volatility like this is typical of an uncertain market. So until the reach of this market adjustment is defined, we will see choppy waters, and business who lend money will make defensive posturing moves.
Today, the following blurb from “Inside Mortgage Finance“:
American Express Stops Allowing Mortgage Payments American Express recently notified some of its customers that it will no longer allow them to make mortgage payments with their credit cards. The company said it will stop allowing such payments in two months. Studies suggest that when borrowers face financial trouble, they default on their credit card payments or auto loans before defaulting on their mortgage. AmEx noted that paying via credit card for fees associated with obtaining a mortgage is still acceptable.
Yikes! I guess it stands to reason that paying a mortgage by credit card would be a great way to rack up frequent flyer miles, but it also seems a slippery slope. I guess I am just amazed to learn this was even possible. But now that it isn’t, it represents yet another example of a source of liquidity disappearing…