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- From: gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt)
- Subject: Re: Banks + Short Term Car Loans = Scam?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul19.201037.11634@sneaky.lonestar.org>
- Organization: Gordon Burditt
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- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1992 20:10:37 GMT
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- >> Knowing this, the bank keeps a list of who's about to finish paying off
- >> these short term loans. They watch when the payments come VERY carefully,
- >> and those
- >> that are even one day late have their cars repossessed, simply because the
- >> bank knows it can make money. The value of the car minus the value of the
- >> remaining loan balance is positive, so the banks can cash in either
- >> auctioning the car, selling it to a wholesale user car dealer, or offering
- >> it back to the borrower at a cost greater than the remaining loan balance
- >> but less than the purchase price of an equivilent used car.
-
- If a bank repossesses something, it does NOT get to keep the full value
- of that something. It gets to keep the amount owed on the loan, unpaid
- interest, and legal fees. The remainder, if there's any money left,
- goes back to the owner. (Owners in trouble with a lot of equity left
- in the car/house/whatever would be better off trying to sell it before
- letting the bank repossess it - both to save their credit rating and to
- get a better price for it.) There might be a small profit in cooked-up
- legal fees. The only reasonable way for banks to profit from something
- like this is to sell it at a little-publicized auction and have an
- accomplice buy it cheap, then re-sell it, and pocket the profit.
-
- If this really was such a lucrative deal for banks, there would be a bunch
- of repossessions in a boom real estate market. You bought a house for
- $200K, borrowed $180K on it, and now it's worth $400K, 3 years later,
- and your loan is down to $160K. Banks would love an excuse to grab the
- house and make $240K, right? Well, it doesn't work that way.
- They don't get to keep the profit. They also have their money back
- and have to find someone else to lend it to to get any interest,
- since the owner's not going to keep paying interest after the
- repossession.
-
- Gordon L. Burditt
- sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon
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