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Nevada’s rate of home foreclosures has led the nation for several months, with signs like this one in northwest Las Vegas popping up across the valley. Gov. Jim Gibbons on Thursday asked for a 90-day halt to foreclosures in the state.
Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008 | 4:54 p.m.
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Gov. Jim Gibbons asked for a 90-day freeze on foreclosures in Nevada in a meeting today with representatives of mortgage lenders.
The lenders agreed to devise options and ideas to keep Nevadans in their homes but did not say if they would agree to Gibbons' three-month moratorium on foreclosures. They plan to further discuss the options with Gibbons within the next few days, according to the governor's office.
Current statistics show home foreclosures could hit 30,000 in 2008 in Clark County alone.
"If Wall Street and large financial institutions can get relief, it is fair and reasonable for Main Street and local homeowners to receive consideration from financial institutions," Gibbons said.
Participants in the meeting included Wells Fargo Bank, Countrywide/Bank of America, the State of Nevada Housing Division, Bank of Nevada and the Nevada Bankers Association.
The lenders said they are willing to modify loans to keep people in their homes.
"Time is a critical element here, as the problem continues to escalate," Gibbons said. "We must act quickly because too many Nevadans have already lost their homes, which is devastating, particularly during the holiday season."
Jeff Pope can be reached at 990-2688 or jeff.pope@hbcpub.com.
This makes me so angry!!! What about the poor people that have already been foreclosed on??? Out luck I guess...
This makes me angry too!!!! What about the responsible people who paid their mortgage and waiting to buy up the foreclosures from the irresponsible!
Why not a 180 days. This will have everyone take a deep breath.
This is another one of those ideas that looks good on the surface (i.e., no new taxes) but ends up making the situation worse. Very few economists support a foreclosure moratorium. All it does is postpone the problem. Instead of 30 foreclosures a month for three months, we'll have 90 foreclosures on one day after the Giblet's moratorium ends.
The only place the foreclosure home owner is going to receive any kind of relief, is to file a Chapter 13 or Chapter 11 in Bankruptcy. The modification loan process is fraud, the bank will tell the homeowner they will work with them, and promise all kinds of solutions, but, instead the Mortgage company, will drag this process on and on , until the home goes into deep foreclosure default, at which time the home is then put up for public sell, which is called a Notice Of Trustee Sale.... Gibbons has no power or say to tell the Mortgage Companies to stop foreclosure, Gibbons is Fraud...