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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I... don't understand the policy reason behind this?

I had mediocre credit (600 score) when we bought our current home and we wound up with a higher rate as a result. We also only had 10% down, which also impacted our rate. But I've worked incredibly hard for almost 15 years to improve my credit and sock away money, plus we've never missed a mortgage payment (including all our PMI payments since we were putting down less than 20%), and you're saying that because I now have a 800+ credit score and have worked diligently for two decades in order to save money and build equity, I now have to pay more money in order to help people who are now in the exact same situation I was in 15 years ago?

I don't understand. I did exactly what I was told I needed to do. Why am I the one being asked to help?[/quote]

So far, you have two right wing sources reporting this as a horrific charge to hardworking people while those with lower credit scores get off scot free. And their sources (at least the NY Post) are people in the mortgage banking industry. Shocker.

In reality. admitted in the last paragraph or so of the article, it's a balancing exercise and buyers with lower credit scores will still pay higher fees, just not as high as before.

"Overall, lower-credit buyers will still pay more in LLPA fees than high-credit buyers – but the latest changes will close the gap.

The official said the LLPA changes will result in an average price hike of just three to four basis points, or 0.03% to 0.04%, across the spectrum of mortgage recipients – the equivalent of a few dollars per month."
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Right wing sources? I posted the FHFA links on like post 5. Did you actually read them?[/quote]

Yes, but judging by the number of people that think borrowers with lower credit scores are somehow advantaged/paying less no one bothered to actually read that. They instead latched onto the framing in the NY Post and obvious right wing rag Washington Times. As was intended.[/quote]

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